Curriculum Vitae

Name: SAMAR I. AYESH
Permanent Address: El-Bireh, Palestine
Phone: 02-2401017 (Home), 0599-785658 (Cell)
E-mail:
Languages: English and Arabic- Excellent Speaking and Writing
EDUCATION
9/2001 – 5/2008
06/1999 – 05/2001
09/1995 – 05/1998 / ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT),Chicago, IL
Ph. D. Chemistry
Thesis Title: “Nanostructured Vanadium Oxide-Based Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Gas-Sensing Properties”
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT),Chicago, IL
Master of Materials and Chemical Synthesis
MANCHESTERCOLLEGE,North Manchester, IN
B.S. Major: Chemistry, Minor: Biology
EXPERIENCE
02/2007 - Present
01/2004 – 08/2006
09/2001 – 12/2003
Summer 2003
January 1998 / Lecturer
An-NajahN.University, Nablus, Palestine
Faculty of Science, Chemistry Section
  • Teaching General Chemistry Courses
  • Teaching Inorganic Chemistry Courses and Labs
Research Assistant
Materials Design and Catalysis Laboratory
Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences Department, IIT,Chicago, IL
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences Department,IIT, Chicago, IL
  • Supervision of Undergraduate chemistry labs
  • Preparation of the chemicals
  • Provided prompt help to students in labs and projects
  • Graded labs, projects and homework
INSTRUMENTATION LAB ASSISTANT
Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences Department,IIT, Chicago, IL
  • Maintained the instruments: IR, UV-Vis, TGA, DCP
  • Assisted students in using the instruments
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CHEMISTRY INTERNSHIP
Dr. Michael Meador, Mentor, NASALewisResearchCenter, Cleveland, OH44135
  • Used photoenolization to synthesize polyimides via Diels-Alder trapping. Applied Gringard reactions to synthesize starting diketones.
  • Used equipment such as IR, NMR, Mass Spectrometry, and DSC in order to analyze the data.

Oral Presentations /

“Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Vanadium Oxide Cluster.” Samar Ayesh, M. Ishaque Khan, Robert J. Doedens. INOR Session: The Many Facets (and Vertices) of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, The 36th ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting 2004, Peoria, IL.

PUBLICATIONS /
  1. M. Ishaque Khan, Samar Ayesh, Robert J. Doedens, Minghui Yu and Charles J. O’Connor, “Synthesis and Characterization of a polyoxovanadate cluster representing a new topology,” Chem. Commun. 2005, 4658-4660.
  2. M. Ishaque Khan, Elizabeth Yohannes, Renata C. Nome, Samar Ayesh, Vladimir O. Golub, Charles J. O’Connor, and Robert J. Doedens, “Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials Containing Porous Frameworks: Synthesis, Characterization, and Magnetic Properties of the Open Framework Solids [{Co(4,4’-Bipy)}V2O6] and [{Co2(4,4’-Bipy)3(H2O)2}V4O12].2H2O,” Chem. Mater. 2004, 16, 5273-5279.
  3. M. Ishaque Khan, Sangeeta Giri, Samar Ayesh, Robert J. Doedens, “Synthesis and Characterization of a New Hybrid Chain Derived from Oxovanadyl and Molybdate Moieties [VIVO(μ3-MoO4)(2,2’-bpy)]: Topological Equivalence of {MoO4} and {SO4} Motifs,” Inorganic Chemistry Communications 7, 2004, 721-724.
  4. M. I. Khan, Elizabeth Yohannes, Samar Ayesh, Robert J. Doedens, “Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials: Synthesis and Crystal Structures of the Layered Solids [{M(H2O)(2,2’-bipy)}V2O6] (M=Co, Ni).” J. Mol. Struc. 2003, 656, 45-53.
  5. M. Ishaque Khan, Samar Ayesh, Elizabeth Yohannes, and Robert J. Doedens, “Synthesis and Characterization of Materials containing Arrays of Decavanadate Clusters.” Frontiers in Bioscience 8, a177-183, September 1, 2003.

ACTIVITIES & HONORS
01/2004 – 08/2006
2004 - 2005
2003 - 2004
1998 – Present
1998 – 2000
Summer 1998
1997/1998
1996/1997
1996 /
  • Kilpatrick Fellowship in Chemistry
  • Kilpatrick Fellowship Award
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Chemistry
  • American Chemical Society Member
  • Nursing Aide Certification
  • Advanced First Aid and Emergency Care Certificate
  • Carl Waldo Holl Scholarship Fund
  • ManchesterCollege Student Leadership Award
  • Manchester Activities Council Achievement Award

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