Melika Sharifironizi focused her Ph.D. on structure, thermodynamic properties, and environmental transport of actinide materials with importance in the nuclear fuel cycle at the University of Notre Dame. She has an extensive research and teaching background in radiochemistry, numerical modeling of fate and transport of environmental contaminants — including radionuclides — and synthesis and characterization of actinide materials. She has several years of mentoring and teaching experience guiding undergraduate and graduate students from various science and engineering disciplines, as well as professionals.
Journal Articles
- Somayeh Asadi, Morteza Nazari-Heris, Sajad Rezaei Nasab, Hossein Torabi and Melika Sharifironizi, 2020, "An Updated Review on Net-Zero Energy and Water Buildings: Design and Operation", Food-Energy-Water Nexus Resilience and Sustainable Development, pp. 267--290
- Melika Sharifironizi, Jennifer ES Szymanowski, Jie Qiu, Sarah Castillo, Sarah Hickam and Peter C Burns, 2018, "Charge density influence on enthalpy of formation of uranyl peroxide cage cluster salts", Inorganic chemistry, 57, (18), pp. 11456--11462
- Melika Sharifironizi and Peter C Burns, 2018, "Investigation of the Structural Stability of Zippeite-group Minerals Using High-temperature Calorimetry", The Canadian Mineralogist, 56, (1), pp. 7--14
- Tyler L Spano, Ewa A Dzik, Melika Sharifironizi, Megan K Dustin, Madison Turner and Peter C Burns, 2017, "Thermodynamic investigation of uranyl vanadate minerals: Implications for structural stability", American Mineralogist, 102, (6), pp. 1149--1153
- Melika Sharifironizi, Jennifer ES Szymanowski, Ginger E Sigmon, Alexandra Navrotsky, Jeremy B Fein and Peter C Burns, 2016, "Thermodynamic studies of zippeite, a uranyl sulfate common in mine wastes", Chemical Geology, 447, pp. 54--58
- Houtan Jebelli, Melika Sharifironizi, Vandad Mazarei and Esmail Aflaki, 2014, "Using Neural Networks for the prediction of Permeability in Rock for Derik Embankment Earth Dam", Science Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2014
Conference Proceedings
- Melika Sharifironizi, Christopher Andrews, Jennifer Syzmanowski, Ginger Sigmon, William Phillip and Peter Burns, 2015, "Separating uranyl nanoclusters using ultrafiltration membranes", 249
Other
- Melika Sharifironizi, 2020, "Bethke, C.M., Farrell, B.M., Sharifironizi, M., GWB Reactive Transport Modeling Guide, The Geochemist’s Workbench® Release 14"
- Melika Sharifironizi, 2020, "Bethke, C.M., Farrell, B.M., Sharifironizi, M., GWB Reaction Modeling Guide, The Geochemist’s Workbench® Release 14"
- Melika Sharifironizi, 2020, "Bethke, C.M., Farrell, B.M., Sharifironizi, M., GWB Essentials Guide, The Geochemist’s Workbench® Release 14"
- Melika Sharifironizi, 2017, "Determination of Thermodynamic Properties of Select Uranyl Compounds"
