Morteza Jamshidi
Mr. Morteza Jamshidi is a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania working on hypervalent iodine oxidation catalysts using an integrated approach combining machine learning, DFT calculations, and experimental synthesis. He is supported by an RTP scholarship and ARC funding and has participated in national innovation and catalyst discovery programs (NCI and CSIRO ON Prime). He has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals, including Angewandte Chemie and Inorganic Chemistry, and is an active member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. His research interests span catalysis, chemical sensing, and AI-driven materials design, with current collaborations at the Australian National University on advanced gold-based catalysts.
Hypervalent iodine compounds are emerging as environmentally friendly and highly selective oxidants. Morteza’s work on next-generation iodine hypervalent catalysts aims to provide low-cost, efficient, and sustainable alternatives to transition metal catalysts, with significant implications for the pharmaceutical industry (USD 19 billion market in Australia by 2030), environmental protection, and greener synthetic pathways. His computational studies are used to design highly reactive and selective iodine catalysts, which are subsequently synthesized and validated in the laboratory.
Morteza received the prestigious RTP scholarship for his PhD candidacy and ARC grant support for his project. He has also contributed to a National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)-backed catalyst discovery program and was selected for CSIRO’s ON Prime 16 national innovation initiative, through which he secured a competitive grant to develop AI-based digital twin platforms for environmental monitoring.
He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers, including multiple high-impact contributions. Notably, he is the co-author of a 2020 IEEE Access article on artificial intelligence in COVID-19 diagnostics, which received over 640 citations, was twice listed as a “Hot Paper” in the Web of Science, and ranked among IEEE’s global Top 10 Most Popular Papers. His research in chemical sensing and nanomaterials has appeared in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Sensors and Actuators B, Scientific Reports, and other Q1-ranked journals.
His recent works include three major publications in Inorganic Chemistry (2025) and Angewandte Chemie (2025), where his paper titled “Superbasic Anionic Calcium Alkyl Complexes: Templated Twofold Deprotonation of Benzene” was recognized as a Hot Paper.
Morteza earned his Master's degree in Organic Chemistry from IAU, Arak, Iran. Throughout the past decade, he has actively contributed to the academic community, holding part-time research positions at the Young Researcher Club and Elit, IAU, Iran, as well as at the Theoretical and Computational Research Center of Chemistry and Nano Sciences, Razi University, Iran (2018–2023). He is an active member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) since 2023. He is currently collaborating with the Australian National University to study new-generation advanced gold-based catalysts.
His studies on Carbon Dots (CDs) and their application in chemical sensors and organic solar cells have resulted in several high-impact publications in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Sensors, J. Phys. Chem. C, Scientific Reports, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, and Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.
Morteza has demonstrated excellence in project development, receiving The Best Project Award at the Nanotechnology Student Festival of Nano Club, Tehran, Iran, for inventing a novel method to synthesize perovskite nanorods. He was also honored as a Distinguished Supervisor for his mentorship on a project involving Electrochromic Glass using ITO Techniques and Conductive Polymers.
As a seasoned reviewer, Morteza has contributed to over ten prestigious journals, including:
Journal of Power Sources
Scientific Reports
Optical and Quantum Electronics
Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing
Advances in Nano Chemistry
Structural Chemistry
Journal of Molecular Liquids
Journal of Theoretical & Computational Science
Physical Science International Journal
Annual Research & Review in Biology
International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Journal of Molecular Modeling
Chemical Science International Journal
With a robust publication record of over 20 papers in diverse areas of chemistry, Morteza Jamshidi is deeply passionate about advancing chemical knowledge and catalysis research. His commitment to scientific innovation and multidisciplinary expertise underscores his contribution to shaping the future of chemical sciences at the UTAS and ANU.