Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Zahra Mokhtari

• Date of birth: 01.01.1989

• Place of birth: Tehran (Iran)

Eduacation & Employment

• Postdoctoral research: since 06.2020

  • Affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin

  • Supervisor: Prof. F. Höfling

• Maternal leave:

  • 1st Project: 2019-2020

  • 2nd Project: 06.2022-01.2023

• Dr.rer.nat. in Physics: 2018

  • Affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

  • Supervisor: Prof. A. Zippelius

  • Thesis: Study of active particles in heterogeneous media

• M.Sc. in Physics:

  • Affiliation: Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver (Canada)

  • Supervisor: Prof. M. Kennett

  • Thesis: Non equilibrium dynamics of quantum Ising chains in the presence of transverse and longitudinal magnetic fields

• B.Sc. in Physics:

  • Affiliation: Sharif Univ., Tehran (Iran)

Research Interest

Statistical mechanics, and biophysics, Pattern formation and self-organization in out-of-equilibrium systems, phase transitions, stochastic processes, active matter

Awards

• CANRON Limited Sidney Hogg Memorial, SFU (Canada): 2012

• Entrance scholarship, SFU (Canada): 2011

Talks

• Spontaneous trail formation in populations of auto-chemotactic walkersi: APS March meeting (Chicago 2022), TU Berlin (2022)

• Dynamics of active filaments in porous media: Institute of Physics JGU (Mainz 2019)

• Collective rotations of active particles interacting with obstacles: Workshop “soft and living matter" (Erice 2018) and DPG Spring Meeting (Berlin 2018)