Sahar Sharifzadeh

Sahar Sharifzadeh is an associate professor of electrical & computer engineering (ECE), materials science & engineering (MSE), and chemistry at Boston University. She was selected as a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2016.

Sharifzadeh’s research interests include computational materials science, materials by design, photonics and optical systems, and semiconductor physics.  Her work involves understanding and predicting the electronic properties of material using first-principles electronic structure theories. The research focuses on understanding and predicting functional material properties using first-principles electronic structure methods. She develops and applies these methods, which can predict, with quantitative accuracy, the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of materials from the basic laws of quantum mechanics. The goals of this research are to extract physical intuition about, and ultimately to design, new outstanding materials.

Professor Sharifzadeh obtained her B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2009. She then joined the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as a postdoctoral fellow, and subsequently as a project scientist. 

Awards:
Boston University College of Engineering Early Career Award, 2019
NSF CAREER Award, 2019
Dean’s Catalyst Award, 2018
Selected as a “Rising Star of Science” by Nature Index, 2018
US Department of Energy Early Career Research Award, 2017
Boston University Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2016

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