Curriculum vita
Personal information:
Name: Maryam Farrokhnia
Place and Date of Birth: Bushehr-Iran, 20 September, 1980.
Married statue: Married.
Children: one daughter
E-mail Address:
Farrokhnia.m@gmail.com
m.Farrokhnia@bpums.ac.ir
Education:
B. Sc.: Chemistry, Persian Gulf University, Iran, 2000-2003.
M. Sc.: Physical Chemistry, Persian Gulf University, Iran, 2003-2005.
Ph. D: Physical Chemistry, Shiraz University, Iran, 2005-2010.
Sabbatical leave: Biophysical Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden, 2009-2010 (Post-Doc
fellowship awarded by Erasums Mundus).
Title of M.Sc. Thesis:
A modified perturbed hard-sphere-chain equation of state for pure halogenated organic
compounds.
Title of Ph.D. Thesis:
Theoretical study of molecular properties in some categories of biological compounds.
Post-Doc. Project:
Reorganization Energy for Internal Electron Transfer in Multicopper Oxidases.
Courses passed during M.Sc. and Ph.D. Programs:
M. Sc.
1. Advanced Physical chemistry
2. Advanced Organic chemistry
3. Advanced Inorganic chemistry
4. Advanced chemical kinetics (I)
5. Statictical Mechanic (I)
6. Advanced Quantum Chemistry (I)
7. Advanced Molecular Spectroscopy (I)
8. New subject in chemistry
Ph. D.
1. Advanced Quantum Chemistry (II)
2. Advanced Quantum Chemistry (III)
3. Advanced Molecular Spectroscopy (II)
4. Statistical Mechanic (II)
5. Chemical Valance
6. Introduction to Research
7. Biochemistry
Teaching Experiences:
1. General chemistry
2. Principle of Biochemistry
3. Laboratory of general chemistry
4. Laboratory of physical chemistry (I, II)
5. Quantum chemistry (I ,II)
6. Physical chemistry
7. Fundamentals of heat transfer and thermodynamic
National seminars and Conferences:
10th Iranian seminar of physical chemistry, Isfehan University, Isfehan, Iran, 2007.
13th Iranian seminar of physical chemistry, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 2010.
13th International congress of pharmaceutical sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences,
Iran, 2012.
5th Iranian congress of nuclear medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,
2013.
National workshops:
1-Workshop on quantum chemistry, 2007, Department of chemistry, College of Science, Shiraz
University, Iran.
2-Workshop on nano-biotechnology, 2011, Department of biochemistry and biophysics, The
Persian Gulf marine-medicine biotechnology research center, The Persian Gulf biomedicine
sciences research institute, Bushehr University of medical sciences, Iran.
3-Workshop on molecular modeling, 2012, Department of biochemistry and biophysics, The
Persian Gulf marine-medicine biotechnology research center, The Persian Gulf biomedicine
sciences research institute, Bushehr University of medical sciences, Iran.
Publications:
1. H. Eslami, M. Farrokhnia, N. Mehdipour and A. Boushehri, A perturbed hard sphere equation
of state for refractory metals, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 226, 2004, 227.
2. H. Eslami, M. Farrokhnia, A modified perturbed hard-sphere-chain equation of state for pure
halogenated organic compounds, International Journal of refrigeration, 28, 2005, 1057.
3. A. H. Pakiari, M. Farrokhnia and S. M. Azami. Multicenter bond index analysis of influence
of metal cations on the aromaticity of two aromatic amino acids: Phenylalanine and
Tyrosine, Chem.Phys. Lett. 457, 2008, 211.
4. A. H. Pakiari, M. Farrokhnia, M. Moradshahi. Quantum chemical analysis of ATP, GTP and
related compounds in gas phase. J. Iran. Chem. Soc. 7, 2010, 51.
5. A. H. Pakiari, M. Farrokhnia. Theoretical study of heteroatom Resonance-Assisted Hydrogen
Bond: Effect of substituent on Pi-delocalization. Iran. J. Chem & Chem. Eng. 29, 2010,
197.
6. L. Hu, M. Farrokhnia, J. Heimdal, S. Shleev, L. Rulisek, U. Ryde. Reorganization Energy
for Internal Electron Transfer in Multicopper Oxidases. J.Phys.Chem. B. 115, 2011,
13111.
7. M. Farrokhnia, I. Nabipour, A. Bargahi. A theoretical study of Dactylyne stereoisomers: A
marine natural product from Aplysia dactylomela. J. Theor. Comp. Chem.11, 2012, 833.
8. M. Tohidi, S. Akbarzadeh, B. Larijani, M. Kalantarhormozi, A. Ostovar, M. Assadi, K.
Vahdat, M. Farrokhnia, Z. Sanjdideh, R. Amirinejad,I. Nabipour, Omentin-1, visfatin
and adiponectin levels postmenopausal women. Bone, 51, 2012, 876.
9. A. Movahed, B. Larijani, I. Nabipour, M. Kalantarhormozi, K. Asadipooya, K. Vahdat, S.
Akbarzadeh, M. Farrokhnia, M. Assadi, R. Amirinejad, A. Bargahi, z. Sanjdideh.
Reduced serum osteocalcin concentrations are associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus
and the metabolic syndrome components in postmenopausal women: The crosstalk
between bone and energy metabolism. J. Bone. Min. Metab. 30, 2012, 683. 4 .
10. K. Vahdat, M.R. Pourbehi, A. Ostovar, F. Hadavand, A. Bolkheir, M. Assadi, M.
Farrokhnia, I. Nabipour. Association of pathogen burden and hypertension: The Persian
Gulf healthy heart study. Am. J. Hypertension. 26, 2013, 1140.
11. M. Farrokhnia, I. Nabipour. Marine natural products as acetylcholinesterase inhibitor:
Comparative quantum mechanics and molecular docking study. Curr. Comput. aided.
Drug. Des. 10, 2014, 83.
12. M. Farrokhnia, A.H. Pakiaria, Nature of Lithium Interactions with DNA Nucleobases:
Theoretical Study. Phys. Chem. Res., 2(2), 2014, 229.
13. S. Karimi, M. Farrokhnia. Leukemia and small round blue-cell tumor cancer detection using
microarray gene expression data set: combining data dimension reduction and variable
selection technique.Chemo. Lab. & Intel. Syst 139, 2015, 6
14. Z. Ghanbari, I. Nabipour, M. Farrokhnia, Marine natural products in prevention and
treatment of osteoporosis. ISMJ, 2015(accepted).
15. J. Li, M. Farrokhnia, L. Rulisek, U. Ryde, Catalytic Cycle of Multicopper Oxidases Studied
by Combined Quantum- and Molecular-Mechanical Free-Energy Perturbation Methods.
J. Phys. Chem. B. (2015) revision submitted.
Research Interests:
Medicinal chemistry: Ligand-binding affinities, Rational Drug designs.
Theoretical Biotechnology, prediction of marine natural product potentials in drug discovery by
computational chemistry.
Applied Software in researches:
Molecular dynamic simulations: Amber
Molecular docking: Auto dock and Dock
Quantum chemical studies: Gaussian.
Awards and Honors:
1. The highest rank graduated student in B.Sc. Average (18.82 out of 20.00)
2. The highest rank graduated student in M.Sc. Average (19.08 out of 20.00)
3. The highest rank graduated student in Ph. D. Average (18.27 out of 20.00)
4. To be accepted in Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for Post-Doc fellowship by a board composed
of scholars from 10 European and 10 lot7 countries universities and was one out of 120
candidates selected from at total of 3800 applications.
Advisors
1. Post Doc.
U. Ryde, Professor of Theoretical biochemistry, Department of Theoretical Chemistry,
Lund university, Chemical Centre, P. O. Box 124 , S-221 00, Lund ,Sweden
ulf.ryde@teokem.lu.se
2. Ph. D.
A.H. Pakiari, Professor of Quantum Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of
Science, Shiraz university, Shiraz, Iran, 71454. E-mail:
pakiari@shirazu.ac.ir
3. M. sc.
H. Eslami, Professor of Statistical thermodynamic, Department of Chemistry, College of
Science, Persian Gulf University.
h.eslami@theo.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de
Last update: 2015-05-03