Associate Professor

AHMAD ZADEH

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Tel: 832-***-**** and 713-***-****

Email: *****.*******@*****.***

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Physics Uppsala & Polytechnic Univ. Sweden & Iran 1998

M.S. Physics Rice University Houston, TX 1988

B.S. Physics University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 1984

B.S. Mathematics University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 1984

Ph.D. Thesis: Optimizing Injection of 55 MeV Proton Beam into Celsius Ring with Steering Feedback and Beta Matching System The Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala-Sweden

M.S. Thesis: Design, Construction and Calibration of a Helium Gas Cherenkov Detector

The Fermi National Laboratory, Illinois-USA

EMPLOYMENT:

Polytechnic University - Amirkabir University of Technology Tehran-Iran

Associate Professor – Physics April 1993 – August 2010

• Conducted lectures and advised M.Sc. and Ph.D. students

• Proposed and defined several research projects and Designed various curricular assessment tests

• Designed an achromatic/dispersive charged particle optical system to transport and improve the resolution of the 30 MeV cyclotron proton beam for injection into another cyclotron

• Production of radiopharmaceutical drugs such as 67Ga, 201Tl, Kr, and FDG utilizing the 30 MeV cyclotron proton beam

• Conducted research and produced 123I and 131I utilizing 30 MeV cyclotron proton beam

• Highest ranked professor as rated by the students for three consecutive years

Canadian Middle East Academy - KADI International Group Tehran-Iran

Associate Professor March 2003 – March 2006

• Conducted lectures and mentored students for higher education in a joint program with Dalhousie University in Canada

TSL - The Svedberg Laboratory Uppsala-Sweden

Researcher May 1995 – April 1996

• Optimized Injection of the 55 MeV Cyclotron Proton beam into the Celsius storage Ring with steering feedback and beta matching system

Texas Instruments Dallas, Texas-USA

Senior Process Engineer October 1988 – February 1992

• Responsible for Quality and Reliability functions for DMOS-4 products which included 1, 4, 16, 64 Megabit DRAM, EPROM and EPIC products

• Failure Analysis (i.e. electromigration and corrosion) on all DRAM, EPROM and EPIC products

• Stress testing EPROM and EPIC products

• Developed a method for staining sputtered pilots and pre-P.O. depositioned production wafers for use as WLR Grain Size monitors using Keller’s Etch

• Developed a method for staining post-P.O. production wafers for Grain Size Analysis

SKILLS

• Having work experience of accelerator laboratories and have demonstrated ability to carry out R&D operations with accelerator systems and particle beams.

• Being familiar with data acquisition and analysis

• Knowledge of electron/proton/ion beam operations and performing experiments

• Several years of experience in manufacturing engineering

• Possess strong technical background and extensive knowledge in the field of high vacuum, vacuum pumps and vacuum gauges

• Practice clean room procedures and techniques, thin-film coating, leak detectors and residual gas analyzers

• Extensive knowledge in the field of manufacturing and fabrication

• Analytical and problem solving skills

• Working knowledge of SPC and TQC awareness

• Failure analysis of DRAM, EPROM and EPIC products

• CMOS manufacturing experience

• Experience with test instruments to measure signal processing parameters for unit under test

• Working knowledge of hardware digital systems

• Extensive knowledge of applicable industry and/or academic practices and standards

• Experience with writing research proposals

• Good verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills

• Good research publication record

PERSONAL:

• Married with 2 children

• Willing to relocate

• US citizen

PUBLICATIONS:

• Proton Beam Dosimetry: a Comparison between a Plastic Scintillator, Ionization Chamber and Faraday Cup

Journal of Radiation Res, Iran, Nov., 2010.

• Evaluation of Personnel Absorbed Dose in Production of Medical Radioisotopes by 5 MW Research Reactor using Rando Phantom and Thermolumiesent Dosimeters

International Conference on Radiation Protection in Medicine Verna, Bulgaria 1-3 Sept. 2010

• Computer Simulation of Bunch Lengthening Effects Caused by a Third Harmonic Cavity in Conjunction with Deflecting Cavities in 3 GeV Taiwan Photon Source.

Journal of Instrumentation 2010 JINST_018P_0610

• Utilization of Transverse Deflecting RF Cavities in the Designed QBA Lattice of 3 GeV Taiwan Photon Source

Journal of Instrumentation 2010 JINST 5 TO 1001

• Stability Study of Free Radicals in 10 MeV Electron Beam Irradiated Quartz as an EPR Dosimetry Method.

Nukleonika Journal (2010) no. 1/09

• Utilization of CRAB Cavities in the Designed QBA Lattice of Taiwan Photon Source

Proceeding of IPAC’10, Kyoto, Japan WEPEA025

• Bunch Lengthening Effects by Utilizing a Third Harmonic Cavity in Conjunction with Deflecting Cavities in TPS

Proceeding of IPAC’10, Kyoto, Japan WEPEA024

• Fusion of MRI and DHC-SPECT Brain Images Utilizing FMDIB Software

11th International Congress of the IUPESM, World Congress Sept, 2009

• Extraction of 250 MeV Cyclotron Proton Beam into a Conceptually Designed Medical Proton Synchrotron

Journal of Radiation Res,. Iran, Nov., 2009

• Proton Beam Dosimetry by CR-39 Track-Etched Detector

Iran Journal of Radiation Res., 2008; 6 (3): 113-120

• Lattice Design of Dedicated Synchrotron for Proton Therapy

Proceeding of the 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering

ICONE16-488321 May 11-15, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA

• In-core Thermal High-Neutron Fluency Measurement by TLD-activation Method

Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics A 580 (200*-****-****

• Characterization of Radio-protective Properties of Curcuma Longa Rhizome

1st Seminar and workshop on Radiation Protection, Nuclear Medicine Group, Shahid Beheshti University Oct. 1-4, 2007

• The 30 MeV Proton Emittance Measurement via Designed and Constructed Wire Scanner with Using Win AGILE Code

Wanjie Proton Therapy Center May 18 (2007) Wanjie China

• Investigation of Time Effect on Resistivity Variation of 10 MeV Electron Beam Irradiated LDPE and HDPE

7th International Symposium on Ionizing Radiation and Polymers Sept. 23-28, 2006 Antalya, Turkey

• The Study of RADOS Detectors’ Application in Detecting the Environmental Radiation

The 2nd Asian and Oceanic Congress for Radiation Protection October 9-13, 2006 Beijing, China

• Beam Emittance Measurements in Improving the Cyclotron Proton Beam Energy Resolution Using an Achromatic/Dispersive System

Radiation Measurement Journal 35 (2002) 229-234

• Optimizing Injection into Celsius with Steering Feedback and Beta Matching System

Particle Accelerator Conference (199*-****-****

• Improving the Energy Resolution of the 30 MeV Cyclotron Proton Using the Designed Achromatic System

14th International Accelerator Conference (1995) 314-7

• Analyzing-Power Measurement in Inclusive π0 Production at High xF

Physical Review Letters Journal (1988) Vol. 61 1918-21

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