Hashem Rafii Tabar

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| birth_date = 1948

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| citizenship = British-Iranian

| nationality = Iranian

| fields = Condensed matter; Computational physics; Properties of nanostructured materials including Carbon Nanotubes

| workplaces = Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,

former: University of Oxford, Tohoku University, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences

| alma_mater = University of London

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| known_for = Computational physics of nanostructures and nanoneuroscience

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| awards = 1994 - Elegant Work Prize of the Institute of Materials London for outstanding contribution to the investigation of nano-scale systems and processes

2001 - Elected number one researcher in nano-technology from the National Nanotechnology Conference

2006 - Elected for Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (Ever-lasting Names) award

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Hashem Rafii-Tabar is a British-Iranian professor and scientist within computational physics and nanoscience. He is primarily known for his contribution to the computational physics of nanostructures with important applications such as Carbon Nanotubes.{{cite web |title=Professor Hashem Rafii-Tabar - Google Scholar Citations |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GdkwnmsAAAAJ&hl=en |website=scholar.google.com}}

Rafii-Tabar's book "Computational Physics of Carbon Nanotubes" published by Cambridge University Press{{cite book |last1=Rafii-Tabar |first1=Hashem |title=Computational Physics of Carbon Nanotubes by Hashem Rafii-Tabar |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/computational-physics-of-carbon-nanotubes/8A7DDACCF34E10899D831E9FDBFFADDC |website=Cambridge Core |publisher=Cambridge University Press |language=en |date=2007|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511541278 |isbn=978-0-521-85300-2 }} was the first to cover this field and has been republished several times while gaining a text-book statue within the computational physics.{{cite book |last1=Ghavanloo |first1=Esmaeal |last2=Rafii-Tabar |first2=Hashem |last3=Fazelzadeh |first3=Seyed Ahmad |title=Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures: Nonlocal Elasticity Approaches |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtaIDwAAQBAJ&q=Hashem+Rafii-Tabar+research+within+computational&pg=PR14 |publisher=Springer |accessdate=27 September 2019 |language=en |date=2019|isbn=9783030116507 }} In 2000 after around 40 years of living in the UK, he moved to Iran and started as the Head of The School of nanotechnology at Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences{{cite web |title=IPM - Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences |url=http://www.ipm.ac.ir/personalinfo.jsp?PeopleCode=IP0400010 |website=www.ipm.ac.ir |accessdate=26 September 2019}} until 2015. He is now a distinguished professor of physics at Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.

In 2006 he achieved the title of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (Ever-lasting Names) for his work in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Rafii-Tabar has been also active in the research field of treatment of nonlocal elasticity theory as applied to the prediction of the mechanical characteristics of various types of biological and non-biological nanoscopic structures with different morphologies and functional behaviour, contributing to scholarly output such as "Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures".{{cite web |title=Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures |url=https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/computational-continuum-mechanics-of-nanoscopic-structures/16493056 |website=springerprofessional.de |publisher=Springer |accessdate=26 September 2019 |language=en}} He has also worked in disease diagnosis field developing nanosensors for early detection of cancer biomarkers {{cite journal |last1=Feder |first1=Toni |title=Sanctions on Iran slow science, slam a scientist |journal=Physics Today |pages=22–25 |doi=10.1063/1.3480068 |date=30 July 2010|volume=63 |issue=8 |bibcode=2010PhT....63h..22F |doi-access=free }} and also conceptual designs for nanodevices that can identify and destroy individual cancer cells.{{cite web |title=Iran makes the sciences a part of its revolution |url=https://www.tehrantimes.com/print/170547/Iran-makes-the-sciences-a-part-of-its-revolution |website=Tehran Times |accessdate=26 September 2019 |language=en |date=11 June 2008}}

Several of his former students and supervised researchers are now university lectures in Asia{{cite web |title=Sadollah Ebrahimi |url=https://research.uok.ac.ir/~sebrahimi/en/ |website=research.uok.ac.ir |accessdate=26 September 2019}} and Europe {{cite web |title=Dr Shirin Jamshidi |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/shirin-jamshidi(e8d485ca-ac84-4255-8a75-28573a78fb1b)/biography.html |website=kcl.ac.uk |accessdate=6 August 2021}}