Fellowships & Scholarships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Oct 2020: AIChe Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) Travel Award, AIChe 2020
Aug 2020: Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Career Development Award
Jun 2020: Outstanding PhD thesis on Carbon Science and Technology, Carbon Journal, 2nd place
Mar 2020: CAS Future Leader, Class of 2020, American Chemical Society
Mar 2020: ACS PMSE Future Faculty Fellow, American Chemical Society
Aug 2019: ABRCMS Judge Travel Award
Jul 2019: Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Career Development Award
Jul 2019: NextProf Nexus Workshop Participant Travel Award, Funded by UC Berkeley, UMich, and GAtech, Atlanta, GA
Jun 2019: Soft Materials Future Faculty Workshop @Princeton Travel Award
Jan 2019: Beckman Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship, ~$181 K, three- year support
Apr 2018: American Heart Association Predoctral Fellowship, $50K, two- year support
Apr 2017: Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship Award, $2K
Apr 2017: Nadine Barrie Smith Memorial Fellowship Award, $4K
Nov 2016: FWW Women’s Health Fellowship Award (Gridley McKim-Smith Women’s Health Fellowship Award), $5K
Nov 2015: Firdawsi Science Fellowship Award
Dec 2011: Direct Admission to Master’s Program, Sharif University of Technology
Sep 2008: Full Scholarship Award, Undergraduate Program, Sharif University of Technology, Department of Materials Sci. & Eng.
Research Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Feb 2019: Selected speaker for Midwest Speaker Exchange, Purdue University (Invited)
Apr 2018: Chemistry in Pictures: Totally tubular, Featured on C&en ACS journal
Apr 2018: MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art Finalist
Feb 2018: Chemistry in Pictures: 2-D aquarium, Featured on C&en ACS journal
Nov 2016: Best presentation. 1st place, MRL Biological Fall Conference, UIUC
Sep 2016: Best poster presentation. 2nd place, American Vacuum Society Prairie Chapter, Chicago
May 2016: Honorable mention award, poster presentation, CNST Nanotechnology Workshop 2016, UIUC
Feb 2016: Best poster presentation. 2nd place, 6th Annual Postdoctoral Symposium at Beckman Institute, UIUC
Academics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
July 2017: Selected participant for NIH Clinical Center’s Clinical and Translational Research Course, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Aug 2016: Selected for iFEAT (llinois Female Engineers in Academia Training) program
Aug 2016: Selected as graduate mentor in URAP UI (Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program), co-sponsored by the Illinois Office of Undergraduate Research and the Educational Equity Programs Office in the Graduate College
Jun 2013: Outstanding Undergraduate Alumnus (Chancellor’s list), Awarded by the Chancellor of Sharif University of Technology, Graduation Ceremony
Sep 2012: Outstanding Undergraduate Student (Dean’s Honor List), Awarded by the Dean of the Department of Materials Sci. & Eng., Sharif University of Technology, 2012
Aug 2012: Graduated with Honors, Cumulative 1st Ranked Student in Department of Materials Sci. & Eng. at Sharif University of Technology, B.Sc., 2012
Dec 2011: CETS (Center of Exceptional Talents) Award, Sharif University of Technology
Aug 2008: Standing Amongst Top 0.2% Out of More than 400,000 Participants in Iranian Nationwide University Entrance Exam, Mathematics and Physics
Aug 2008: Ranked 159th Amongst More than 100,000 Participants in Iranian Nationwide University Entrance Exam, Foreign Languages