Education:

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Howard University, Washington, D. C. 1981
B. S., Chemistry, Tabriz University, Azerbaijan, Iran.

Research Interests:

Some of the topics of Dr. M.S. Hokmabadi's publications are:

• Chemical thermodynamics of electrolyte solutions.
• Infrared, Raman, and stimulated - Raman scattering.
• Structure of water and aqueous solutions.
• Weak and strong acid.
• Structure of glasses and optical fibers.
• High pressure and high temperature apparatus design and construction.

Selected publications (total 30, h-index 12, i10-index 14, citations: 1373, google scholar):

• G. E. Walrafen, W.-H Yang, Y. C. Chu, and M. S. Hokmabadi, "Structures of Concentrated Sulfuric Acid Determined from Density, conductivity, Viscosity, and Raman Spectroscopic Data", Journal of Solution Chemistry, Volume 29, Number 10, Pages 905-936, 2000.
• G. E. Walrafen, W.-H Yang, Y. C. Chu, and M. S. Hokmabadi, "Raman Measurements of the High-Temperature Heats of Vaporization of HF and H2O and of the H-Bond Enthalpies of the Hydonium-Fluoride Complex in the 50 mol % HF-H2O Solution", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, volume 101, number 17, Pages 3381-3399, 1997.
• G. E. Walrafen, W.-H Yang, Y. C. Chu, and M. S. Hokmabadi, "Raman OD-Stretching Overtone Spectra from Liquid D2O between 22 and 152 °C", Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 100, Number 4, Pages 1381-1391, 1996.
• G. E. Walrafen, W.-H Yang, Y. C. Chu, and M. S. Hokmabadi, "Comment on "Low-frequency Raman-scattering study of the liquid-glass transition in aqueous lithium chloride solution", Physical Review E, Volume 49, Number 3, 1994.
• Roosevelt Shaw and M. S. Hokmabadi, "Raman Spectroscopic Determination of Heats of Vaporization of Pure liquids", Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 73, Number 5, 1996.
• M. S. Hokmabadi and G. E. Walrafen, "Raman investigation of the effects of torsion on fused silica optical fibers", Journal of Chemical Physics, volume 78, Number 8, 1983.