E-mail: mohazzab@UDel.edu
Work (302) 831-0519 Fax (302) 831-1637

Objective:
Seeking a challenging research/development position in a dynamic corporate
environment.

Technical skills:
Experience in low temperature research and techniques. Design and
construction of cryostats.
Design and construction of Superconducting thin films to have the
desired resistance and transition temperatures and testing them using cryostats.
Setup automated experiments to test superconductor thin films. 
Performed and published research on cavitation in liquid helium. 
Experience in sputtering and preparation of thin films. Constructed a
sputtering system.  Constructed a setup for evaporation coating.  
Setup acoustic lab and acoustical measurement. 
Research on ultrasonic especially at low temperatures.
Constructed laboratory laser and used lasers as a probe in laboratory
applications.  
Experience in vacuum technology for various applications.
Experience in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), studied
superconductors with TEM.
Setup automated experiments using GPIB boards, data acquisition using
programming languages like Quick Basic and Lab VIEW.  
Experience in design of mechanical components using MiniCad and
construction. 
Experience in X-ray diffraction (XRD) to study the properties of thin
films.
Experience with photolithography, photolithography masks design using
Cadence and fabrication, etching.
Submitted experimental proposal to NSF on 'Cosmological Experiment at
Low Temperature'.
Experience in theoretical physics research. 
Experience in Cosmology.  Done research and published in the areas of
inflation, cosmic strings, baryogenesis, quantum gravity, new models for
cosmology, classification of Bianchi metrics.    
Experience in critical phenomena at low temperature. 

Computer related experience:
Used various operating systems: Unix, VMS, and MS-DOS/Windows 95/NT.
Experience in programming languages: Fortran, Basic, Visual C++.
Experience in LabVIEW programming under Windows 95/NT for automated
instrument control and data analysis.
Experience in symbolic algebraic calculations using Maple, Mathematica
and Aljabr.
Experience in numerical simulation using Fortran, Basic, MathLab,
Mathematica, and Maple.

Communication skills: 
Experience in teaching physics for undergraduate students.  The courses
include Acoustics, Quantum mechanics, Modern Physics, Astrophysics, and
Electromagnetism with excellent student evaluation. 
Experience in teaching laboratory courses: Acoustic and Modern physics
lab.
Presented talks in local seminars and international conferences.
Published in international journals.

Professional Experience:
1997-present: Postdoc, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University
of Delaware, Newark, DE, with Prof. Norbert Mulders.
1996-1997: postdoc Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence,
RI, with Prof. Humphrey Maris
1994-1996: Research Associate, Institute for studies in Physics and
Mathematics.
1995-1996: Teaching Position, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

Employment history:
1997 to present, postdoc, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University
of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA.
1996-1997, postdoc, Physics Department, Brown University, Providence,
RI
02912, USA.
1995, summer, visiting scientist, Astrophysicaliche Institute in
Potsdam,
Germany.
1995-1996, teaching position, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
1994-1996, research position, Institute for studies in Physics and
Mathematics, Tehran, Iran.
 
Fields of Research:
Experimental low temperature physics; Cavitation in liquid 4He;
Tricritical phenomena in mixtures of 3He-4He.  Theoretical cosmology;
Topological defects, Inflationary models, Decrumpling model of the
Universe; Nonsingular Universe. 
			
Education:
Ph.D., 1994, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Thesis:
"Topics on Modern Cosmology".
MSc., 1989, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.  Thesis:
"Simulation of a gamma-ray telescope".

Honors and Awards:
Iranian Physics Society prize, 1990.

Invited Talks:
Physics conference, Sanandaj, Iran, Aug. 1994, "Baryogenesis from long
cosmic strings". 
Institute of Basic Research, Monteroduni, Italy, Aug. 1995,
"Decrumpling
Cosmology".
Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany, Jun. 1995, "Expansion of Bubble
in an Inflationary universe".
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Sept. 1995, "A
decrumpling cosmological model".
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, July 1996, "Cavitation in
liquid Helium".
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Jan. 1997, "Cosmological
experiments using liquid helium.

References:
Prof. H. Maris, MARIS@physics.brown.edu, phone:(401)863-2185 /Fax:
(401)863-2024
Prof. R. H. Brandenberger, rhb@het.brown.edu, phone: 401-863-2622 /Fax:
(401)863-2024
Prof. N. Mulders, mulders@UDel.edu  (phone: (302)831-3517)/Fax:
(302)831-1637