Jahansooz Toofan

jtoofan@csus.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D.               Physical Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 1997

M.S.                Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 1990

B.S.                 Chemistry, National University of Iran, Tehran, IRAN

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Part-Time faculty (2004-Present):

Chemistry departments, UCD (2004-06), and CSUS, California

• Teaching Assistant (1991-96):

Chemistry Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

Instrumental Analytical Lab, Organic Labs

• Teaching Assistant (1986-90):

Chemistry Department, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA

General chemistry

• Full-Time Chemistry Instructor (1975-85):

Chemistry Department, Shiraz University, Iran

Analytical chemistry, Advanced Instrumental analytical lab, Geochemistry

• Teaching Training (1974):

Chemistry Department, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

RESEARCH EXPERIANCE

• Adviser: Professor Donald P. Land (2002-04):

Postdoctoral Researcher: Chemistry Department, University Of California, Davis, California.

Objective: Using Attenuated Total Reflection to study the adsorption kinetics and bonding reaction of biomolecules on thiol/gold film.

• Adviser: Professor P. Watson (OSU), Professor Van Hove (LBNL, Berkeley) (1996-97):

Postdoctoral fellows: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Center for Advance Material Research, OSU, Corvallis, Oregon.

Objective: Computer Image Processing development for the low energy electron diffraction.

• Adviser: Professor H. Firoozabadi.

 Research Assistant, Chemistry Department, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Objective: Preparation of new selective oxidizing reagents for alcohols and aldehydes.

Ph.D. Dissertation:

• Adviser: Professor Phillip R. Watson.
• Development of New Data Collection and Analysis Techniques for Low Energy Electron

Diffraction (LEED) and their application to Mo/S catalyst and sapphire crystal.

M.S. Thesis:

• Adviser: Professor William H. Fink.
• ab-initio calculation and modeling of the Overtones of the Torsional Mode of Ethylene based on the Raman spectroscopy results.

PATENT:

J. Toofan, M. Toofan; Pub. No.: US 2009/0077825 A1, Pub. Date: Mar. 26, 2009

Abstract Title: An apparatus and a method are described to dry solid objects (semiconductor wafer) being manufactured in a chain of steps.

INDUSTERIAL EXPERIENCE

• Senior Consultant in System Service Innovation Corp., Santa Ana Court, California (1999-2002).

Designed and testing of air-sampling instruments.                                                                                    

• Senior Scientist StorMedia Incorporation, Material Analysis Lab, Santa Clara, California (1998-99).

Research on the effect of the organic pollution on the magnetic media substrates.

INSTRUMENTAL SKILLS:

• Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED), Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES),
• Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy (TDS), Quadrupole Mass Spectroscopy,
• Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive x-ray (SEM/EDX), Vacuum System,
• Potentiometer & Polarographic techniques, UV-Vis, FTIR-Microscopy, Raman-Microscopy,
• Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy; Gas, Thin Layer and Ion chromatographic methods.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SINCE 1987; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE CODING.
• Software preparation: (in C++ code) for image processing.
• Programming tools: C++/C, Fortran 77 (main frame/UNIX), Pascal, and Quick Basic.
• Created a software to calculate and draw statistical polynomial curve fitting, (2013-14).

HONORS

               Postdoctoral fellowship, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), 1996

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• American Chemical Society
• IEEE Society

ORAL PRESENTATIONS (By: JT)

• J. Toofan, W. Fink, ab initio calculation of the overtones of the torsional mode of ethylene.

West Coast Theoretical Chemistry, IBM Alma den Research Center, San Jose, California, May 1989

• J. Toofan, W. Fink, ab initio calculation of the excited torsional mode of tetra-fluro-ethylene.

West Coast Theoretical Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 1990.

• J. Toofan, Ph. Watson, Invited paper. A new image processing method for extracting integrated intensities for low-energy electron diffraction spots. Advance Materials Research Center, Oregon State University, Oregon 1997.

• J. Toofan, An introduction to FT-Raman (near-infrared) spectroscopy.

StorMedia Incorporation, (2 days seminar) Santa Clara, California 1998.