Ahmad ManiVarnosfaderani
Assistant Professor
Speciality: Chemometrics
  • BS/BA: Applied Chemistry, University of Tabriz
  • MS: 2008 , Analytical Chemistry, Sharif University of Tehcnology
  • PhD: 2012 , Analytical Chemistry (Chemometrics), Sharif University of Technology
  • Phone: 82884738
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  • Email: a.mani@modares.ac.ir
  • Address: School of Basic Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University
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Date of Birth: 08 May 1984
 
Academic Degrees:

o   Assistant Professor, Tarbiat Modares University, Department of Chemistry, Tehran, Iran, 2013-1014.

o   Lecturer in Isfahan University of Medical Science, Department of Bioelectric, Isfahan, Iran, Taught courses: ("Modeling of Biological Data" and "Bioinformatics"), 2012-2013. 


  • Ph.D. in Chemoinformatics, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Tehran. Under supervision of Prof. M. Jalali-Heravi. 2008-2012.

Title of Thesis:  Classification, Similarity analysis and modeling of drug activities: Introduction of classical relativity in chemical space.

o   Sabbatical Leave: University of Bern, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bern, Switzerland. Nov 2011- May 2012. Member of research group of Professor J.-L. Reymond. Developed a JAVA program to implement a novel concept for searching chemical space using GDB-13 (a space comprising ~9.8×108 small organic molecules with up to 13 atoms of C, N, O, S and Cl developed following simple chemical stability and synthetic feasibility rules).


  • M.Sc. in Chemoinformatics: QSAR modeling of CCR5 inhibitors using multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) algorithm. Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2006-2008, under supervision of Prof. Jalali-Heravi.

  • B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry. Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran. Research project: Studying electrodeless gold plating on nickel surfaces under supervision of Dr. M. Hosseini. 2002-2006.

Academic Honors:

o   Winner of the best paper award at the 4th National Conference on Bioinformatics in Iran, 2012.

o   Member of the "Talents and Elites" organization in Iran. 2010-Present.

o   Ranked 1th out of >70 in the PhD entrance exam, Sharif University of Technology, 2008.

o   Graduated #2 out of 6 master students in Analytical Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, 2008.

o   Ranked 4th out of >50 in the 11th Olympiad of Chemistry in Iran, 2007.

o   Ranked 3rd out of >9000 for M.Sc. Entrance Exam, Inorganic Chemistry, 2006.

o   Ranked 4th out of >9000 for M.Sc. Entrance Exam, Analytical Chemistry, 2006.

o   Ranked 6th out of >9000 for M.Sc. Entrance Exam, Physical Chemistry, 2006

o   Graduated #3 out of 64in B.Sc. Chemistry in Tabriz University, 2006.

Research Interests:
  • Chemometrics, Metabolomics, Computational Chemistry, Chemoinformatics, Chemical Fingerprint Analysis, Bioinformatics, Programming, Genomics, Chemogenomics.
  • Proficient programmer in the following languages: MATLAB, JAVA, C#, HTML and CSS