Elnaz Nematollahi

Elnaz Nematollahi

PERSONAL INFORMATION 

Place of Birth:            Shiraz, Iran

Phone:                       +98-910-6461430

Address:                    Janat Abad, Tehran, Iran

Email:                         [email protected] [email protected]

EDUCATION

2018-2022: Master of Science,
Chemical Engineering, Process Design

School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

Thesis: “Design and manufacture of Alumina-Chitosan-
Polyvinylpyrrolidonehydrogel for targeted drug delivery to cancer cell lines”

Supervisors: Professors Hooman Fatoorehchi, and Fatemeh Yazdian.

2012-2017: Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering

School of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2021-2022: Researcher at R&D section, ZIMA Knowledge-Based Co, Tehran, Iran.

2019-2021: Research assistant at nanotechnology laboratory, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. 

Honors

• Full-Scholarship Admission (M.SC.), Tehran University, Tehran, Iran (The first-ranked university in Iran according to 2021 U.S.News ranking).
  
• Ranked 35th among more than 600,000 participants in National Entrance Exam to Iranian Universities for master’s degree.
• Full-Scholarship Admission (B.SC.), Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (ranked within the top 3 universities in Iran according to 2021 QS ranking).
• Ranked among the top 0.5% out of 260,000 participants in the National Entrance Exam to Iranian Universities for bachelor’s degree.

Research Interests 

• Nanomedicine
• Polymers, Nanocomposites, and Hydrogels
• Drug/ Gene/ Protein Delivery
• Regenerative Medicine
• Cell and Tissue Engineering

Summary of Qualifications

Experimental:

Scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR),
Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), UV Spectroscopy, Sol-gel method, Nanoemulsion.

Computer:

MATLAB, Aspen HYSYS, GROMACS, VMD, Chimera, GaussView, Origin, Photoshop.

Publication

E. Nematollahi, M. Pourmadadi, F. Yazdian, H. Fatoorehchi, H. Rashedi, and M. N. Nigjeh, “Synthesis and characterization of chitosan/polyvinylpyrrolidone coated nanoporous γ-Alumina as a pH-sensitive carrier for controlled release of quercetin,”
Int. J. Biol. Macromol., vol. 183, pp. 600–613, 2021.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.04.160.