Dr Amirreza Khodadadian

I am working at the School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University, United Kingdom as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer).

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.

Academic Positions


since 2023
Staffordshire, United Kingdom
2018 - 2023
Hannover, Germany
2017 - 2018
Vienna, Austria
2012 - 2013
Vienna, Austria

Education




October 2012 - November 2017
Vienna, Austria

MSc in Mathematics

University of Isfahan

September 2006 - October 2008
Isfahan, Iran

BSc in Applied Mathematics

Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz

September 2002 - October 2006
Ahwaz, Iran

Research Interests



Uncertainty Quantification

  • Numerical methods for stochastic PDEs
  • MCMC methods and Bayesian inversion

Numerical Analysis

  • Numerical treatment of PDEs
  • Finite element methods
  • Computational mathematics

Scientific Computing

  • Computational mechanics
  • Computational (nano)-electronics
  • Multiscale and Reduced-order methods methods
  • Machine learning and deep learning

Research Publications

  Published articles:

    32- M. Abbaszadeh, A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi and M. Dehghan, Investigation of combustion model via the local collocation technique based on moving Taylor polynomial (MTP) approximation/domain decomposition method with error analysis, 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 and N. Noii, Using layer-wise training for road semantic segmentation in autonomous cars, IEEE Access, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3255988

    30- N. Noii, A. Khodadadian and 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, and 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 and 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 and C. Heitzinger (2022), 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, and 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, and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian and 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: 0.1016/j.cam.2019.112453

    17- A Sadabad, A. Khodadadian, K. H. Istadeh, M. Hedayati, R. Kalantarinejad and 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

    16- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian and 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

    15- A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi and 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

    14- A. Khodadadian, N. Noii, M. Parvizi, M. Abbaszadeh, T. Wick and C. Heitzinger, A Bayesian estimation method for variational phase-field fracture problems, Computational Mechanics, 66, 827-849, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s00466-020-01876-4

    13- M. Abbaszadeh, M. Dehghan, A. Khodadadian and 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

    12- A. Khodadadian, B. Stadlbauer and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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. Tagizadeh and 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 and C. Heitzinger, Optimal design of nanowire field-effect troponin sensors Computers in Biology and Medicine, 87, 46-56, 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2017.02.014

    3- L. Taghizadeh, A. Khodadadian and 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 and 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 and C. Heitzinger, A transport equation for conned 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, 2023, ArXiv: 2302.01994

    2- M. Abbaszadeh, A. Khodadadian, M. Parvizi, M. Dehghan, Dunhui Xiao, A reduced-order least squares-support vector regression and isogeometric collocation method to simulate Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equation, submitted for publication, 2024

  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.

Research Grants

total funding so far: 488k€



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€



Teaching Experience



  • WiSe 2023/24

    • Algebra 1
    • Making Sense Statistics in Data Science

  • WiSe 2022/23

    • Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification
    • Seminar on Uncertainty Quantification

  • SuSe 2022

    • Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification
    • Seminar on Uncertainty Quantification

  • WiSe 2021/22

    • Numerical Analysis 1
    • Exercise of Numerical Analysis 1

  • SuSe 2021

    • Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification
    • Seminar on Uncertainty Quantification in Applied Sciences

  • WiSe 2020/21

    • Numerical Analysis 1
    • Exercise of Numerical Analysis 1

  • SuSe 2020

    • Introduction to Scientific Computing

  • WiSe 2019/20

    • Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

  • SuSe 2019

    • Introduction to Scientific Computing

  • WiSe 2018/19

    • Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
    • Advanced Numerical Methods for Stochastic PDEs

Invited Visiting



March 2014 - April 2014
Tempe, AZ, USA
February 2020
Indore, India

Institute of Mathematics

University of Oxford

hosted by Prof. Mike Giles

April 2023 - May 2023
Oxford, United Kingdom

Languages


  • English (fluent speaker)

  • German (B2 level speaker)

  • Persian (native speaker)

Supervision



Postdoctoral Researchers

MSc students