• Ph.D. in Materials Science

             Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

•  M.Sc. in Physics.

             Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.

•  B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering.

             Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Nanoscience and nanotechnology with emphasis on computational modeling, sensors, nanomaterials for renewable energy including photovoltaic and thermoelectric applications, atomistic modeling of mechanical deformations, nano- and molecular-electronics, nanoelectromechanical systems, electronic and thermal quantum transports, multiscale thermodynamics, nanomaterials production processes

• “Resilience of thermal conductance in defected graphene, silicene, and boron nitride nanoribbons”, L. J. Wirth, T. H. Osborn, A. A.   Farajian, Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 173102 (2016)
•  “Silicene nanoribbons as carbon monoxide nanosensors with molecular resolution”, T. H. Osborn and A. A. Farajian, Nano   Research 7, 945-952 (2014)
•  “Ab initio assessment of graphene nanoribbons reactivity for molecule adsorption and conductance modulation: nitrogen dioxide nanosensor”, K. K. Paulla, A. J. Hassan, C. R. Knick, and A. A. Farajian, RSC Adv. 4, 2319-2327 (2014)
•  “Stacking stability, emergence of magnetization and electromechanical nanosensing in bilayer graphene nanoribbons”, K. K. Paulla and A. A. Farajian, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 25, 115303 (2013)
•  “Carbon oxides concentration effects on sensing by graphene nanoribbons: Ab initio modeling”, K. K. Paulla and A. A. Farajian, J.    Phys. Chem C 117, 12815 (2013)
•  “Stability of lithiated silicene from first principles”, T. H. Osborn and A. A. Farajian, J. Phys. Chem. C 116, 22916–22920 (2012)
•  “Ab initio simulations of silicene hydrogenation”, T. H. Osborn, A. A. Farajian, O. V. Pupysheva, R. S. Aga, L.C. Lew Yan Voon,   Chem. Phys. Lett. 511, 101-105 (2011)
•  “Modeling direct exfoliation of nanoscale graphene platelets”, O. V. Pupysheva, A. A. Farajian, C. R. Knick, A. Zhamu, and B. Z.     Jang, J. Phys. Chem. C. 114, 21083-21087 (2010