
Post-Doc
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”
Oscar Wilde
Youssef earned his bachelor’s degree from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, where he also won the National College Basketball Championship as a member of Sharif basketball team. He obtained his master’s degree from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Truong Vo-Van, investigating electrochromism of smart windows. Prior to joining the group, Youssef perused his PhD degree with theorist Prof. Robin Selinger from Kent State’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute.
Besides coffee, his current interest is to model/assist/optimize various experiments, automate procedures, and teach machine to learn polymer science.