I am the principal investigator of the FWF Standalone Project Using single atom catalysts as nanozymes in FET sensors. The project is running at the Institute of Information Systems Engineering, Vienna University of Technology. The project focuses on the interdisciplinary interface between mathematical modeling, machine learning, nanoelectronics, and biosensing.
School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University
Institute of Information Systems Engineering, Vienna University of Technology
Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (Photonics, Optics, and Engineering)
Institute of Applied Mathematics, Leibniz University of Hannover
Institute of Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology
Education
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Mathematics
Supervisor: Prof. Clemens Heitzinger
MSc in Mathematics
BSc in Applied Mathematics
Published articles:
39- E. Khodadadian, S. Mirsian, S. Shashaani, M. Parvizi, A. Khodadadian, P. Knees, W. Hilber, and C. Heitzinger, A Bayesian inversion supervised learning framework for enzyme activity in graphene field-effect transistors, Machine Learning with Applications, 6, 100718, 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.mlwa.2025.100718
38- E. Khodadadian, D. Goldoni, J. Nicolini, A. Khodadadian, C. Heitzinger, L. Selmi, Integrating Physics-Based Simulations, Machine Learning, and Bayesian Inference for Accurate Detection and Metrology of Elongated Nanoscale Analytes Using High-Frequency Capacitance Spectroscopy, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 15, 111679, 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2025.111679
37- S. Mirsian, W. Hilber, E. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi, A. Khodadadian, S. M. Khoshfetrat, C. Heitzinger, B. Jakoby, Graphene-based FETs for advanced biocatalytic profiling: Investigating heme peroxidase activity with machine learning insights, Microchimica Acta, 192, 199, 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s00604-025-06955-y
36- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Parvizi, A. Khodadadian, T. Wick, M. Dehghan, A reproducing kernel particle method (RKPM) algorithm for solving the tropical Pacific Ocean model, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 179, 197–211, 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2024.12.011
35- M. Abbaszadeh, A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi, M. Dehghan, Dunhui Xiao, A reduced-order least squares-support vector regression and isogeometric collocation method to simulate the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equation, Journal of Computational Physics, 523, 113650, 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113650
34- N. Noii, D. Milijasevic, A. Khodadadian, T. Wick, An Efficient FEniCS Implementation for Coupling Lithium-Ion Battery Charge/Discharge Processes with Fatigue Phase-Field Fracture, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 306, 110251, 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2024.110251
33- N. Noii, D. Milijasevic, H. Waisman, A. Khodadadian, Fatigue Failure Theory for Lithium Diffusion Induced Fracture in Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode Particles, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 428, 117068, 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2024.117068
32- A. Abbaszadeh, A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi, M. Dehghan, Investigation of combustion model via the local collocation technique based on moving Taylor polynomial (MTP) approximation/domain decomposition method with error, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 159, 288-301, 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.enganabound.2023.11.010
31- S. Shashaani, M. Teshnehlab, A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi, T. Wick, & N. Noii, Using layer-wise training for road semantic segmentation in autonomous cars, IEEE Access, 11, 46320-46329, 2023 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3255988
30- N. Noii, A. Khodadadian, F. Aldakheel, Probabilistic failure mechanisms via Monte Carlo simulations of complex microstructures, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 399, 115358, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2022.115358
29- N. Noii, A. Khodadadian, J. Ulloa, F. Aldakheel, T. Wick, S. Francois, & P. Wriggers, Bayesian inversion with open-source code for one-dimensional problems in computational mechanics, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 29, 4285–4318, 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s11831-022-09751-6
28- E. Jalaeian Zaferani, M. Teshnehlab, A. Khodadadian, C. Heitzinger, M. Vali, N. Noii, T. Wick, Hyperparameters optimization of stacked asymmetric auto-encoders for automatic personality traits perception, Sensors, 22(16), 6206, 2022 DOI: 10.3390/s22166206
27- A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi, M. Teshnehlab, C. Heitzinger, Rational Design of Field-Effect Sensors using Partial Differential Equations, Bayesian Inversion, and Artificial Neural Networks, Sensors, 22(13), 4785, 2022 DOI: 10.3390/s22134785
26- N. Noii, A. Khodadadian, & T. Wick, Bayesian inversion using global-local forward models applied to fracture propagation in porous media, International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 20(3), 1-22, 2022 DOI: 10.1615/IntJMultCompEng.2022041735
25- V. Mohammadi, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian, N. Noii, & T. Wick, An asymptotic analysis and numerical simulation of a prostate tumor growth model via the generalized moving least squares approximation combined with semi-implicit time integration, Applied Mathematical Modeling, 104, 826-849, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2021.12.011
24- N. Noii, A. Khodadadian, & T. Wick, Bayesian inversion for anisotropic hydraulic phase-field fracture, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 386, 114118, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2021.114118
23- N. Noii, A. Khodadadian, J. Ulloa, F. Aldakheel, T. Wick, S. Francois, & P. Wriggers, Bayesian inversion for unified ductile phase-field fracture, Computational Mechanics, 68, 943–980, 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s00466-021-02054-w
22- M. Parvizi, A. Khodadadian, & M. R. Eslahchi, A mixed finite element method for solving coupled wave equation of Kirchhoff type with nonlinear boundary damping and memory term, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 44(17), 12500-12521, 2021 DOI: 10.1002/mma.7556
21- V. Mohammadi, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian, & T. Wick, Numerical investigation on the transport equation in spherical coordinates via generalized moving least squares and moving kriging least squares approximations, Engineering with Computers, 37(2), 1231-1249, 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s00366-019-00881-3
20- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian, N. Noii, C. Heitzinger, & T. Wick, A reduced-order variational multiscale interpolating element free Galerkin technique based on proper orthogonal decomposition for solving Navier–Stokes equations coupled with a heat transfer equation: Nonstationary incompressible Boussinesq equations, Journal of Computational Physics, 426, 109875, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2020.109875
19- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian, & C. Heitzinger, Application of direct meshless local Petrov–Galerkin method for numerical solution of stochastic elliptic interface problems, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 38(5), 1271-1292, 2021 DOI: 10.1002/num.22742
18- Y. A. Sadabad, A. Khodadadian, K. H. Istadeh, M. Hedayati, R. Kalantarinejad, & C. Heitzinger, Frequency dependence of dielectrophoretic fabrication of single-walled carbon nanotube field-effect transistors, Journal of Computational Electronics, 19(4), 1516-1526, 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s10825-020-01562-x
17- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian, & C. Heitzinger, Analysis and application of the interpolating element free Galerkin (IEFG) method to simulate the prevention of groundwater contamination with application in fluid flow, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 368, 112453, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2019.112453
16- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian, & C. Heitzinger, Error analysis of interpolating element free Galerkin method to solve non-linear extended Fisher–Kolmogorov equation, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 80(1), 247-262, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2020.03.014
15- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian, & T. Wick, Legendre spectral element method (LSEM) to simulate the two-dimensional system of nonlinear stochastic advection–reaction–diffusion models, Applicable Analysis, 101(6), 2279-2294, 2020 DOI: 10.1080/00036811.2020.1807007
14- A. Khodadadian, N. Noii, M. Parvizi, M. Abbaszadeh, T. Wick, & C. Heitzinger, A Bayesian estimation method for variational phase-field fracture problems, Computational Mechanics, 66(4), 827-849, 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s00466-020-01876-4
13- A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi, & C. Heitzinger, An adaptive multilevel Monte Carlo algorithm for the stochastic drift–diffusion–Poisson system, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 368, 113163, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2020.113163
12- A. Khodadadian, B. Stadlbauer, & C. Heitzinger, Bayesian inversion for nanowire field-effect sensors, Journal of Computational Electronics, 19(1), 147–159, 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s10825-019-01417-0
11- M. Parvizi, A. Khodadadian, & M. R. Eslahchi, Analysis of Ciarlet–Raviart mixed finite element methods for solving damped Boussinesq equation, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 379, 112818, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2020.112818
10- S. Mirsian, A. Khodadadian, M. Hedayati, A. Manzour-ol-Ajdad, R. Kalantarinejad, & C. Heitzinger, A new method for selective functionalization of silicon nanowire sensors and Bayesian inversion for its parameters, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 142, 111527, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2019.111527
9- M. Abbaszadeh, A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi, M. Dehghan, & C. Heitzinger, A direct meshless local collocation method for solving stochastic Cahn–Hilliard–Cook and stochastic Swift–Hohenberg equations, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 98, 253–264, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.enganabound.2018.10.021
8- A. Khodadadian, M. Abbaszadeh, M. Parvizi, M. Dehghan, & C. Heitzinger, A multilevel Monte Carlo finite element method for the stochastic Cahn–Hilliard–Cook equation, Computational Mechanics, 64(4), 937–949, 2019 DOI: 10.1007/s00466-019-01688-1
7- M. Dehghan, M. Abbaszadeh, A. Khodadadian, & C. Heitzinger, Galerkin proper orthogonal decomposition-reduced order method (POD-ROM) for solving generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 29, 2642–2665, 2019 DOI: 10.1108/HFF-11-2018-0647
6- A. Khodadadian, L. Taghizadeh, & C. Heitzinger, Optimal multilevel randomized quasi-Monte-Carlo method for the stochastic drift–diffusion–Poisson system, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 329, 480–497, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2017.10.015
5- A. Khodadadian, L. Taghizadeh, & C. Heitzinger, Three-dimensional optimal multi-level Monte–Carlo approximation of the stochastic drift–diffusion–Poisson system in nanoscale devices, Journal of Computational Electronics, 17(1), 76-89, 2018 DOI: 10.1007/s10825-017-1118-0
4- A. Khodadadian, K. Hosseini, A. Manzour-ol-Ajdad, M. Hedayati, R. Kalantarinejad, & C. Heitzinger, Optimal design of nanowire field-effect troponin sensors, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 87, 46–56, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2017.05.008
3- L. Taghizadeh, A. Khodadadian, & C. Heitzinger, The optimal multilevel Monte-Carlo approximation of the stochastic drift–diffusion–Poisson system, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 318, 739–761, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2017.02.014
2- A. Khodadadian, & C. Heitzinger, Basis adaptation for the stochastic nonlinear Poisson–Boltzmann equation, Journal of Computational Electronics, 15(4), 1393–1406, 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s10825-016-0922-2
1- A. Khodadadian, & C. Heitzinger, A transport equation for confined structures applied to the OprP, Gramicidin A, and KcsA channels, Journal of Computational Electronics, 14(2), 524–532, 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s10825-015-0680-6
In-review articles:
1- M. Parvizi, A. Khodadadian and T. Wick, Analysis of a fully discretized FDM-FEM scheme for solving thermo-elastic-damage coupled nonlinear PDE systems, submitted for publication, 2024, ArXiv: 2302.01994
Proceedings and talks:
17- M. Parvizi, A. Khodadadian S. Beuchler and T. Wick, Hierarchical LU preconditioning for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations, Domain Decomposition 27, Prague, Czech, January 21-25, 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50769-4_47
16- N. Noii, A. Khodadadian and T. Wick, Global-Local Forward Models within Bayesian Inversion for Large Strain Fracturing in Porous Media, accepted for publication in Domain Decomposition 27 Prague, Czech Republic, July 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50769-4_45
15- A. Khodadadian, N. Noii, M. Parvizi and T. Wick, A global/local approach for parameter estimation in phase-field fracture problems, ECCOMAS CONGRESS 2022, Oslo, Norway, June 5-9, 2022.
14- N. Noii, A. Khodadadian, J. Ulloa, F. Aldakheel, T. Wick, S. Francois, & P. Wriggers, Bayesian inversion for unified ductile phase-field fracture in Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium Chemnitz Chemniz, Germany, September 2021.
13- A. Khodadadian, N. Noii, M. Parvizi, M. Abbaszadeh, T. Wick and C. Heitzinger, Bayesian inversion for variational phase-field fracture problems, in SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ 2020) Munich, Germany, March 2020.
12- A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, Bayesian inversion for nanoscale field-effect sensors using the stochastic drift-diffusion-Poisson-Boltzmann system, in 90th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Vienna, Austria, February 2020.
11- A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi and C. Heitzinger, Optimal multi-level Monte Carlo and adaptive grid refinement for the stochastic drift-diffusion-Poisson system, in SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ 2018) Garden Grove, CA, USA, April 16-19, 2018.
10- A. Khodadadian, L. Taghizadeh and C. Heitzinger, Optimal multi-level Monte Carlo method for the stochastic drift-diffusion-Poisson system, in 13th Austrian Numerical Analysis Day Salzburg, Austria, May 4-5, 2017.
9- A. Khodadadian, C. Heitzinger, K. Hosseini, R. Kalantarinejad, M. Hedayati, and A. Manzour-ol-Ajdad, Optimal sensitivity of nanowire field-effect troponin sensors, in 14th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics Montreal, Canada, July 17-20, 2017.
8- L. Taghizadeh, A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, Stochastic modeling of dopant atoms in nanoscale transistors using multi-level Monte Carlo, in SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification 2016 (SIAM UQ16), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 5-8, 2016.
7- Taghizadeh, A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, The stochastic drift-diffusion-Poisson system for modeling nanowire and nanopore sensors, in European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 13--17 June 2016, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63082-3_48.
6- A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, Ionic currents through transmembrane proteins calculated by a transport equation for conned structures, in 4th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, Cachan, France, 29 June - 1 July 2015.
5- A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, The signal-to-noise ratio due to biological noise in field-effect sensors calculated using the stochastic Poisson equation and polynomial-chaos expansion, in 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Diego, USA, July 27-30, 2015.
4- A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, Quasi-Monte-Carlo methods for the linear and nonlinear stochastic Poisson-Boltzmann equations, in 11th International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, Leuven, Belgium, April 6-11, 2014.
3- A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, Uncertainty quantification in nanowire sensors using the stochastic nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, in SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ 2014), Savannah, Georgia, USA, March 31- April 03, 2014.
2- A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, Using the stochastic Poisson-Boltzmann equation to quantify noise in nanowire bio-and gas sensors, in 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCMXI), Barcelona, Spain, July 20-25, 2014.
1- A. Khodadadian and C. Heitzinger, Simulation of nanowire sensors using the stochastic PoissonBoltzmann equation, in 12nd International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-5, 2013.
2) June 2023 - May 2026: I have been funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
project: Using Single Atom Catalysts as Nanozymes in FET Sensors
grant: 476k€
1) Dec 2017 - June 2018: I was funded by the Vienna University of Technology
project: Nanowire FET Biosensor Design
grant: 12k€
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