Department of Chemistry 
107 Physical Science Building
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
Office: (405) 744-4430

E-mail: reza.latifi@okstate.edu 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/reza-latifi-14408336/

Education and Job experiences:

Teaching Assistant Professor, August 2017-Now
Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, USA.

Lecturer, August 2014-July 2017
Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, USA.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jan 2012-Aug 2014
Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, November 2011
Department of Chemistry, Division of Nano Sciences, Ewha W. University, Seoul, Korea.

Ph.D., September 2009
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran.

M.Sc., September 2004
Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran.

B.Sc., September 2002
Department of Chemistry, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Lorestan province, Iran.

Teaching Experience:

Oklahoma State University

CHEM 1314 (Large classes > 250-300 students) August 2014-Now
CHEM 1414 (Large classes > 250-300 students) August 2014-Now
CHEM 1515 (> 60 students) June 2016-Now
CHEM 2890 (~ 10-25 students) Spring 2019-Now

Sharif University of Technology

Inorganic Chemistry I recitation class September 2002-Feb 2008
Inorganic Chemistry II recitation class September 2002-Feb 2008
Inorganic Chemistry I Lab September 2002-Feb 2008
Inorganic Chemistry II Lab September 2002-Feb 2008
General Chemistry Lab 1 September 2004-May 2006
General Chemistry Lab 2 September 2004-May 2006

Research Interests:

Chemical Education, Laboratory education, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysis, Oxygen atom transfer, DFT, Computational Chemistry, and X-Ray Crystallography.

Research Experience:

Research Fellow, Oxygen Atom Transfer Mediated by an Iron(IV)/Fe(II) Macrocyclic Complex Containing Pyridine and Tertiary Amine Donors.
Advisor: Prof. Elena Rybak-Akimova

Detailed analysis of axial ligand effects on the regioselectivity of aliphatic and aromatic hydroxylation by non-heme iron(IV)–oxo biomimetic complexes.
Advisor: Prof. Wonwoo Nam, and Prof. Sam P. de Visser

Ph.D., Experimental and computational studies of oxygen atom transfer reactions by metal-oxo oxidants.
Advisors: Prof. Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, and Prof. Sam P. de Visser

M.Sc., Explore the oxygen atom transfer ability of new manganese complexes with nitrogen-oxygen donating ligands.
Advisor: Prof. Mojtaba Bagherzadeh

Honors

• American Crystallographic Association Scholarship, IL, USA, 2013.
• World Class University Research Fellowship, South Korea, 2010–2012
• Member of National Elite Foundation, Iran, 2009.
• British Council Visiting Researcher Scholarship, UK, 2008
• Ministry of Science, Research and Technology Scholarship, 2008
• Overseas Travel grant from Sharif University of Technology, 2008.
• Scholarship of Department of Education for All Period of Undergraduate Program, 1998-2002.