Hosseinpour, Saman (Ph.D.)

I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in material science and engineering with the focus on surface and corrosion science. In 2006, I was appointed as a lecturer and faculty member of the Department of Material Science at Azad University. In 2009 I moved to Christofer Leygraf’s labs at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, to do my PhD which was followed by a postdoc period in Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany. In 2016 I received the prestigious Morris Cohen Graduate Award for the best doctoral research in the field of corrosion science and electrochemistry. Currently, I hold a group leader position at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Particle Technology (LFG), working with non-linear spectroscopy (SHG and SFG). Since 2020, I am an honorary adjunct professor of the department of materials and metallurgical engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM). My research interests are: physical chemistry of macromolecules, surface functionalization, corrosion, surface science, non-linear spectroscopy, and electrochemistry.

Selected Publications:

(full list of publications is available here):

Hosseinpour, S., Roeters, S., Bonn, M., Peukert, W., Woutersen, S., & Weidner, T. (2020). Structure and dynamics of interfacial peptides and proteins from vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy. Chemical Reviews, 120(7), 3420-3465. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00410

Guckeisen, T., Hosseinpour, S., & Peukert, W. (2019). Isoelectric points of proteins at the air/liquid interface and in solution. Langmuir, 35(14), 5004-5012. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00311

Hosseinpour, S., Tang, F., Wang, F., A. Livingstone, R., Schlegel, S., Ohto, T.,... Backus, E. (2017). Chemisorbed and Physisorbed Water at the TiO2/Water Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8, 2195-2199. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00564

Hosseinpour, S. (2013). Combined in situ quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring, indirect nanoplasmonic sensing, and vibrational sum frequency spectroscopic monitoring of alkanethiol-protected copper corrosion. Langmuir. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la4009224

Hosseinpour, S. (2011). Initial Oxidation of Alkanethiol-Covered Copper Studied by Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp207028e

Grants and awards:

BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)-MSRT Joint Mobility program, (Germany, 2020).
ETI (Emerging Talents Initiative) grant 2018/2 from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), (Germany, 2018).
Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award, Electrochemical Society, for the best doctoral thesis in the field of Electrochemistry and Corrosion, world-wide, (USA, 2016).
DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, two years grant for collaboration with the University of Zagreb, Croatia on “Self assembled monolayers as corrosion inhibitors in marine environments”, (Germany, 2015).
Best Poster Award in Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy, (USA, 2014).
Levipriset from Sveriges Ingenjörer (Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers), (Sweden, 2013).
Third Best Poster Award in Materials Day, at KTH, Stockholm, (Sweden, 2011).
Third prize in Khwarizmi International Award (KIA), for the project “Honeycomb sealing for jet engines”, (Iran, 2009).
ECO (Economic Cooperation Organization), prize for Research & Development Project, for the best project presented in KIA, (Iran, 2009).