Zinab Jadidi, Ph.D.

PhD-trained computational materials scientist and engineer with 6+ years of experience in materials modeling, machine learning, data analysis, and scientific communication. Experienced in mentoring students, developing study materials, explaining complex technical concepts, and guiding independent research projects through structured feedback. Brings strong interdisciplinary preparation for undergraduate instruction in engineering, computational methods, data analysis, and applied machine learning.

Degree & Academic Institution:

• Ph.D., Computational Materials Science and Engineering,
  University of California, Berkeley
• MS, Computational Materials Science and Engineering,
  University of California, Berkeley
• BS, Materials Science and Engineering,
  University of Maryland, College Park

Courses Taught:

• Math 208 - Probability and Statistics
• CS 250 - Python Programmin

Publications:

• Jadidi, Z., Chen, T., Barroso-Luque, L., & Ceder, G. (2023). Kinetics of Li transport in vanadium-based disordered rocksalt structures. Chemistry of Materials, 35(21), 9225-9234.
• Jadidi, Z., Yang, J. H., Chen, T., Barroso-Luque, L., & Ceder, G. (2023). Ab initio study of short-range ordering in vanadium-
  based disordered rocksalt structures. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11(33), 17728-17736.
• Jadidi, Z., Chen, T., Xiao, P., Urban, A., & Ceder, G. (2020). Effect of fluorination and Li-excess on the Li migration barrier in Mn- based cathode materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(38), 19965-19974.
• Jadidi, Z. (2023). Kinetics of Li Transport in Disordered Rocksalt Li-excess Compounds (Doctoral dissertation, UC Berkeley).
• Yang, J. H., Chen, T., Barroso-Luque, L., Jadidi, Z., & Ceder, G. (2022). Approaches for handling high-dimensional cluster expansions of ionic systems. npj Computational Materials, 8(1), 133.
• Barroso-Luque, L., Yang, J. H., Xie, F., Chen, T., Kam, R. L., Jadidi, Z., et al. (2022). smol: A Python package for cluster expansions and beyond. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(77), 4504.
• Barroso-Luque, L., Yang, J. H., Chen, T., Xie, F., Zhong, P., Kam, R., & Jadidi, Z. (2022). Statistical Mechanics on Lattices (smol) v0.0.1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), UC Berkeley.
• Ouyang, B., Artrith, N., Lun, Z., Jadidi, Z., Kitchaev, D. A., Ji, H., et al. (2020). Effect of fluorination on lithium transport and short- range order in disordered rocksalt-type Li-ion battery cathodes. Advanced Energy Materials, 10(10), 1903240.