biography
I have a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Jordan since August 2011. After I got my Ph.D. degree, I have worked as an assistant professor of physics since 2011 in two private universities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After that, I joined Middle East University in Amman, Jordan to work as an assistant professor of physics. My Ph.D. dissertation is to investigate theoretically by using and employing the computational methods and technologies, of the Half-metallic properties and spin polarization of Heusler alloys which used in contemporary spintronics technologies. Through working as an assistant professor of physics, in addition to physics courses, I taught both mathematics and statistical courses. Also, I contributed to many university activities and committees such as quality assurance committee and curriculum development and research.
research interest
My research interests are focused on deepening our understanding of multifunctional materials properties. I am engaged in applying computational methods, from an ab initio standpoint, to investigate the electronic and magnetic properties of new functional nanomaterials such as Half-metallic, catalyst, topological insulators, etc. In the last century, the researcher's community paid more attention in studying and designing these novel materials because of their possible applications in new technologies. Furthermore, the computational methods became more accurate and available which contributed more and more to develop the basic and applied sciences research. The latest development in computer science and engineering such as constructed supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC) technologies help in enriching the computational physics projects. One of my research aims is to contribute in constructing and modeling the condensed matter calculations by using clustering solutions.In 2010, I participated in a project based summer internship which held in Cyprus Institute, Nicosia in Cyprus. During this internship, I had installed and configured a small Linux-based cluster. After that, I had run scalability tests on the parallel application (WIEN2k package). Moreover, I attended many workshops and tutorials in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and computational physics, which was very interesting and useful for me. My experience and knowledge in ab initio packages such as Wien2k and abinit, OS operating systems and C/C++ and FORTRAN programming qualified me to be a computational physics researcher.My current project is concerned in studying the optical and transport properties of perovskite compounds such as ATiO3 by employing modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential implemented in Wien2k code. The semi-classical transport coefficients will be calculated by using BoltzTraP program. Also, some analytical treatment could be done besides the numerical treatment. The connection between Hyperfine structure and the material optical and half-metallic properties would be discussed.