NABIL MOH'D SULEIMAN AL AQTASH

Nabil Mohammad Al-Aqtash	Assistant Professor
Theoretical and Computational Nanophysics	Physics
Faculty of Science	Department of Physics
NabilD@hu.edu.jo	http://staff.hu.edu.jo/nabil
ORCID ID : 308504580
Office No. : Physics building, room #212	EXT : 4915

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Ph.D.	New Mexico State University	The United States of America,2011
Master	New Mexico State University	The United States of America,2007
Bachelor	Mu’tah University	Jordan,1997

 I am working in the field of theoretical and computational condensed matter physics and materials science. In particular, I am interested in understanding the structural, electronic, magnetic, transport and optical properties of semiconductors, composites, alloys, and nanomaterials using atomistic level simulation.

1.	N. Al-Aqtash and I. Vasiliev, Ab Initio Study of Carboxylated Graphene, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2009 113 (30), 12970-12975. 
2.	N. Al-Aqtash and I. Vasiliev, Carboxylation of Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes, NSTI-Nanotech 2010, ISBN:978-1-4398-3402-2 Vol. 2, 2010.
3.	N. Al-Aqtash and I. Vasiliev, Ab Initio Study of Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized with Carboxyl Groups, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2011, 115 (38), 18500–18510. 
4.	N. Al-Aqtash, K. Al-Tarawneh, T. Tawalbeh, and Igor Vasiliev, Ab initio study of the interactions between boron and nitrogen dopants in graphene, Journal of Applied Physics 2012 112, 034304. 
5.	H. Li, N. Al-Aqtash, L. Wang, R. Qin, Q. Liu, J. Zheng, W-N. Mei, R. Sabirianov, Z. Gao, J. Lu, Electromechanical switch in metallic graphene nanoribbons via twisting, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 2012 44 (10 ), 2021-2026. 
6.	 P. Kharel; X.Z. Li; V.R. Shah; N. Al-Aqtash; K. Tarawneh; R.F. Sabirianov; R. Skomski; D.J. Sellmyer, Structural, magnetic, and electron transport properties of MnBi:Fe thin films, Journal of Applied Physics 2012;111(7), 07E326. 
7.	P. Kharel, Y. Huh, V. R. Shah, X. Z. Li, N. Al-Aqtash, K. Tarawneh, E. S. Krage, R. F. Sabirianov, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, Structural and magnetic properties of Mn2+?TiSn, Journal of Applied Physics 2012;111(7), 07B101. 
8.	N. Al-Aqtash, H. Li, L. Wang, W-N. Mei, R. Sabirianov, Electromechanical switching in graphene nanoribbons, Carbon 2013 51, 102-109. 
9.	 Nabil Al-aqtash; Florin Apostol; Wai-Ning Mei; Renat Sabirianov, Electronic and Optical Properties of TaO1-xN1+x-based Alloys, Journal of Solid State Chemistry 2012 198, 337–343. 
10.	 K. Altarawneh and N. Al-Aqtash , Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes with Surface Defects: An ab initio study, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience Vol. 10, 1–7, 2013. 
11.	 K. Altarawneh and N. Al-Aqtash, First-principles Study of Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene in the Presence of Point Surface Defects, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience Vol. 10, 1–8, 2013 . 
12.	 P. Kharel1, Y. Huh1, N. Al-Aqtash, V. R. Shah, R. F. Sabirianov, R. Skomski and D. J. Sellmyer, Structural and magnetic transitions in cubic Mn3Ga, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 26 126001 (2013). 
13.	 K. Altarawneh, N. Al-Aqtash, Role of Vacancies in Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons: An Ab Initio Study, Journal of Nano Research 27,65-73 (2014). 
14.	 N. Al-Aqtash and R. F. Sabirianov, Spin density wave in periodically strained Graphene Nanoribbon, Nanoscale 6, 4285-4291 (2014). 
15.	K. Altarawneh, N. Al-Aqtash, and R. F. Sabirianov, Large Magnetoresistance of MnBi/Bi/MnBi Spin Valve, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 363, 43–48 (2014). 
16.	 N. Al-Aqtash and R. F. Sabirianov, Photo-switching of magnetization in iron nanoparticles, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, 6873-6878 (2014). 
17.	N. Al-Aqtash, A. Alsaad and R. F. Sabirianov, Ferroelectric properties of BaZrO3/PbZrO3 and SrZrO3/PbZrO3 superlattices: An ab-initio study, Journal of Applied Physics, 116, 074112 (2014). 
18.	A. Alsaad, N. Al-Aqtash and R. F. Sabirianov, Generalized stacking fault in FePt nanoparticles and effects of extended defects on magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 374, 525–529 (2015).
19.	N. Al-Aqtash and R. F. Sabirianov, Strain control of magnetocrystalline anisotropy and energy product of MnGa alloys, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 391,  26-33 (2015)
20.	A Alsaad, I A Qattan, A A Ahmad, N Al-Aqtash and R F Sabirianov, Structural and electronic properties of Diisopropylammonium bromide molecular ferroelectric crystal, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 92, International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM 2015)
21.	Andrei Sokolov, Eugene Kirianov, Albina Zlenko, Abdiel Quetz, Anil Aryal, Sudip Pandey, Igor Dubenko, Shane Stadler, Naushad Ali, Nabil Al-Aqtash, and Renat Sabirianov , "Magnetic and magneto-transport studies of substrate effect on the martensitic transformation in a NiMnIn shape memory alloy", AIP Advances 6, 056211 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943537
22.	 Khaldoun Tarawneh, Nabil Al-Aqtash, Renat Sabirianov, Large magnetoresistance in planar Fe/MoS2/Fe tunnel junction, Computational Materials Science, 124, 15-22 (2016)
23.	Wang, Fang and Du, Juan and Sun, Fan and Sabirianov, Renat F. and Al-Aqtash, Nabil and Sengupta, Debasis and Zeng, Hao and Xu, Xiaohong, Ferromagnetic Cr2Te3 nanorods with ultrahigh coercivity, Nanoscale, 10, 11028-11033 (2018)
24.	Ahmad Alsaad, Chris M. Marin, Nabil Alaqtash, Hsien-Wen Chao, Tsun-Hsu Chang, Chin Li Cheung, A. Ahmad, I.A. Qattan, Renat F. Sabirianov, Crystallographic, vibrational modes and optical properties data of ?-DIPAB crystal, Data in Brief, 16, 667-684 (2018)
25.	Ahmad Alsaad, Chris M. Marin, Nabil Alaqtash, Hsien-Wen Chao, Tsun-Hsu Chang, Chin Li Cheung, A. Ahmad, I.A. Qattan, Renat F. Sabirianov, Effect of bromine deficiency on the lattice dynamics and dielectric properties of alpha-phase diisopropylammonium bromide molecular crystals, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 113, 2018,  82-85, ISSN 0022-3697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2017.10.004
26.	Alsaad Ahmad, Al-Aqtash Nabil, Sabirianov Renat F., Ahmad Ahmad, Al-Bataineh Qais M., Qattan Issam, Albataineh Zaid, First-Principles Calculation of Physical Tensors of ?-Diisopropylammonium Bromide (?-DIPAB) Molecular Ferroelectric Crystal ,  Frontiers in Physics , 7, 203 (2019) https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2019.00203

 Structure and Electron Localization of Reduced Ceria (CeO2) Surfaces: First Principles Study
By
Amani Amged Twal
Supervisor
Nabil Al-Aqtash
 15, April, 2018

9/2015-present Assistance Professor, Physics Department, Hashemite University.
4/2011-8/2015 Research Associate, Physics Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
1/2007-3/2011 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA.
1/2005-1/2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of physic, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA.
2/2002-1/2005 Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of physics, Hashemite University, Jordan.
9/1998-5/2001 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of physic, University of Jordan, Jordan.
8/1998-1/2002 Teacher of Physics and science, Ministry of Education, Jordan.

General Physics (107)
General Physics for Medical Students	
 General Physics (II)
 General Physics (I)
 General Physics Lab(II)
 General Physics Lab(I)
Thermal and material physics	
 Modern Physics (1)
Waves and Vibrations
Thermodynamics
Quantum Mechanics (2)
Nanophysics 
Seminar
Special Topics 
Classical Mechanics

Teaching of different courses including general physics of Classical Mechanics, and  electricity and magnetism, Classical Mechanics course, in addition to different different lab. courses including general physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, modern optics, and electronics.


During my graduate studies at University of Jordan, Jordan ( from 9/1998 to 6/2001) and New Mexico State University, NM ( from 1/2005 to 4/2011) and my career as Research and Teaching Assistant at Hashemite University, Jordan ( from 2/2002 to 1/2005), I have served as teaching assistant and instructors for several undergraduate courses, including general physics I lab (classical mechanics), general physics II lab (electromagnetism & electronics), geometrical optics for physics and engineering, and electronics lab. This experience has helped me extending my knowledge in these areas. Also, by assisting individual students in their assignments, I grown experience in what the common difficulties that face the students in these areas. Moreover, during my career as a postdoctoral research associate at University of Nebraska (from 4/2011 – 8/2015), I have the chance to interact with several graduate and undergraduate students and help them with their research project. Now as Assistance Professor of Physics at The Hashemite University, (9/2015 - present),I have the chance to teach several courses like general physics, and classical mechanics courses. This assists me to gain better understanding with how to deal with the student needs.

 Member of the American Physical Society (APS)
Member of the Materials Research Society (MRS)

 Peer-Review Activities 
Journal reviewer for Materials Research Bulletin 
Journal reviewer for Journal of Solid State Chemistry 
Journal reviewer for Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 
Journal reviewer for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 
Journal reviewer for Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Journal reviewer for Journal of Applied physics

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