Name: Fatima Zohra Amir
Education: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Houston, Houston-Texas; M.Sc. in Physics/ Optoelectronic, Université D’Es-Senia, Oran-Algeria; M.Sc. in Physics, Université des sciences du Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier-France; Bachelor in Physics / Electronic, Université de Sidi Bel Abbes, Sidi Bel Abbes-Algeria
Office: 203 Sims Science Building
Phone: 803/323-4935
E-mail: amirf@winthrop.edu
Area: Solid State Physics, x-ray diffraction, Material Science and Nanoscience
After graduating with a bachelor degree in Physics with a concentration in electronic and a minor in Math from the Université de Sidi Bel Abbes in Algeria, Dr. Amir graduated with two masters in physics, and her masters’ research interests were in the area of optoelectronic and semiconductors.
Dr. Amir then received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Houston in Texas; her doctoral work was on x-ray diffraction characterization of thin films. Her postdoctoral research involved the fabrication of semiconductor thin films using Molecular Beam Epitaxy and their characterization using x-ray diffraction. After her postdoctoral positions, she worked as a Research Engineer at the Center of Nanotechnology at the University of Texas at Arlington and trained graduate students on different characterization equipment.
Dr. Amir teaches physics with calculus lecture and laboratory and modern physics. Before joining the Winthrop faculty, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at St Lawrence University and at the Holy Cross College, where she taught College physics, Mathematical Methods for Physics, and she developed classes for nonscience majors such How things work in physics, and a class on Energy.
Dr. Amir research interests focus on the fabrication of supercapacitors using electrophoretic deposition. She has been a user at Brookhaven National Laboratory since 2013, and has taken several students to the Center of Functional Materials at Brookhaven National Lab for the characterization of materials used in the supercapacitors. Dr. Amir research was supported by grants from the National Foundation of Science, and the Department of Energy and she has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.