Professor Hatef Sadeghi
Prof. Dr. Hatef Sadeghi is a Professor of Computational Quantum Engineering, and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. His main research area is theoretical nanoscale electronics and computational materials discovery. He is a recipient of several prestigious fellowships, the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship in June 2017, the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (the First cohort) in Feb 2019, and has been listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. He is Topic Editor of Nanomaterials. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers several of which are in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Electronics, Nano Letters, PNAS, JACS, Nature Communications, ACSNano, Advanced Functional Materials, Science Advances, Angewandte, etc. He collaborates at the interface between Physics, Chemistry and Electronic Engineering. He co-created the quantum transport code "GOLLUM" and leads its development and distributions. Prof Sadeghi has developed new concepts and methodologies in the theory of nanoscale electronics including innovative strategies for demonstrating, controlling and exploiting quantum interference for applications in thermoelectricity, switching, sensing and optoelectronics.
Prizes and Awards
01/2021 Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
11/2011 Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher
Academic Employment
08/2023 - Current Professor of Computational Quantum Engineering and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK
07/2021 - 07/2023 Associate Professor in Multiscale Modelling and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK
09/2019 - 06/2021 Assistant Professor in Multiscale Modelling and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK
05/2019 - 08/2019 Lecturer in Physics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK
05/2018 - 04/2019 Leverhulme Fellow and Senior Research Associate, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK
01/2016 - 04/2018 Senior Research Associate, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK
11/2011 - 12/2015 Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK
Research Funding
The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - Renewal, Principle investigator, No: MR/X015181/1
Project Title: Hybrid Molecular Energy Harvesting (HiMOL).Value: £990K | Duration: 01/11/2023 - 30/10/2026 — nanolab.uk/himolHorizon Europe EIC PathFinderOpen - UKRI InnovateUK Guarantee Scheme, Principle investigator, No: 101099098
Project Title: Atomically Precise Nanoribbons Quantum Platform (ATYPIQUAL).Value: €3.4M (Warwick share: £772K) | Duration: 01/10/2023 - 31/03/2027Royal Society - International Exchanges, Principle investigator, No: IES\R3\92223170
Project Title: Enhancement of photocatalytic dehydrogenation activity using quantum interference.Value: £12K | Duration: 31/03/2023 - 30/03/2025The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, Principle investigator, No: MR/S015329/2
Project Title: Exploiting quantum and phonon interference for molecular thermoelectricity and Seebeck sensing (MoQPI).Value: £935K | Duration: 01/05/2019 - 30/10/2023 — nanolab.uk/moqpiFLF Development Network - Plus Funds, Principle investigator, No: PF007
Project Title: Future Leaders Network for Nanoscale Energy Harvesting.Value: £25K | Duration: 01/12/2021 - 01/12/2022 — nanoleaders.orgUniversity of Warwick Capital Fund, Principle investigator
Project Title: Future Leaders Network for Nanoscale Energy Harvesting.Value: £25K | Duration: 01/12/2021 - 01/12/2022 — nanoleaders.orgThe Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, Principle investigator, No: ECF-2017-186
Project Title: Quantum and Phonon Interference in Molecular-scale Thermoelectric Materials.Value: £120K | Duration: 01/05/2018 - 30/04/2021 — nanolab.uk/leverhulmeSelected Publications
For full list of publication, visit: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hG2S1ZAAAAAJ&hl=en
Electronically Perturbed Vibrational Excitations of the Luminescing Stable Blatter Radical, J Bar-David, A Daaoub, S Chen, SM Sibug-Torres, S Rocchetti, G Kang, RJ Davidson, RJ Salthouse, C Guo, N Sven Mueller, S Sangtarash, MR Bryce, Hatef Sadeghi, and JJ Baumberg, ACS Nano, Vol. , no. , pp. , 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c09661
Single‐Molecule Mechanoresistivity by Intermetallic Bonding, A Sil, CE Spano, Y Chelli, SJ Higgins, S Sangtarash, G Piccinini, M Graziano, RJ Nichols, Hatef Sadeghi, and A Vezzoli, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. , no. , pp. e202418062, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202418062
Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Converters based on Metalloporphyrin Nanotubes, QH Al-Galiby , LA Algharagholy, Hatef Sadeghi and VG Suarez, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. , no. , pp. , 2025. DOI: 10.1039/D4TA08282F
Zero‐Bias Anti‐Ohmic Behaviour in Diradicaloid Molecular Wires, A Sil, L Hamilton, J MF Morris, A HS Daaoub, JHH Burrows, CM Robertson, K Luzyanin, SJ Higgins, Hatef Sadeghi, RJ Nichols, S Sangtarash, and A Vezzoli, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. , no. , pp. e202410304, 2024. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202410304
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shift as a Probe for Single-Molecule Charge Transport, AX Qiao, A Sil, S Sangtarash, S Smith, C Wu, CM Robertson, RJ Nichols, SJ Higgins, Hatef Sadeghi and A Vezzoli, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. , no. , pp. , 2024. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202402413
Thermopower in Underpotential Deposition Based Molecular Junctions, P He, A Daaoub, S Sangtarash, Hatef Sadeghi, and HJ Yoon, Nano Letters, Vol. , no. , pp. , 2024. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04438
Mechanical Manipulation of Quantum Interference in Single‐Molecule Junctions, A Sil, M Alsaqer, C E Spano, A Larbi, SJ Higgins, CM Robertson, M Graziano, S Sangtarash, RJ Nichols, Hatef Sadeghi, and A Vezzoli, Small, Vol. , no. , pp. 2308865, 2024. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202308865
Large Mechanosensitive Thermoelectric Enhancement in Metallo-Organic Magnetic Molecules, M Alsaqer, AHS Daaoub, S Sangtarash, and Hatef Sadeghi, Nano Letters, Vol. , no. , pp. , 2023. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02569
Contacting individual graphene nanoribbons using carbon nanotube electrodes, J Zhang, L Qian, GB Barin, A Daaoub, P Chen, K Müllen, S Sangtarash, P Ruffieux, R Fasel, Hatef Sadeghi, J Zhang, M Calame, and ML Perrin, Nature Electronincs, Vol. , no., pp. , 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41928-023-00991-3
Controlling Spin Interference in Single Radical Molecules, Y Chelli, S Sandhu, AHS Daaoub, S Sangtarash, and Hatef Sadeghi, Nano Letters, Vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 3748–3753, 2023. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c05068
Supramolecular Radical Electronics, T Gao, A Daaoub, Z Pan, Y Hu, S Yuan, Y Li, G Dong, R Huang, J Liu, S Sangtarash, J Shi, Y Yang, Hatef Sadeghi, and W Hong, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Vol. 145, no. 31, pp. 17232–17241, 2023. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c04323
Not So Innocent After All: Interfacial Chemistry Determines Charge-Transport Efficiency in Single-Molecule Junctions, A Daaoub, JMF Morris, VA Béland, P Demay-Drouhard, A Hussein, SJ Higgins, Hatef Sadeghi, RJ Nichols, A Vezzoli, T Baumgartner, S Sangtarash, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. , no. , pp. e202302150, 2023. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202302150
Engineering heat transport across epitaxial lattice-mismatched van der Waals heterointerfaces, E Chavez-Angel, P Tsipas, P Xiao, M Ahmadi, A Daaoub, Hatef Sadeghi, C Sotomayor Torres, A Dimoulas, A El Sachat, Nano Letters, Vol. 23, no. 15, pp. 6883–6891, 2023. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01280
An Orthogonal Conductance Pathway in Spiropyrans forWell-Defined Electrosteric Switching Single-MoleculeJunctions, D Jago, C Liu, AHS Daaoub, E Gaschk, MC Walkey,T Pulbrook, X Qiao, AN Sobolev, SA Moggach, D Costa-Milan, SJ Higgins, MJ Piggott, Hatef Sadeghi, RJ Nichols, S Sangtarash, A Vezzoli, and AA Koutsantonis, Small, Vol. , no. , pp. 2306334, 2023. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202306334
Atomically Well-defined Nitrogen Doping in the Cross-plane Transport through Graphene Heterojunctions, H Zhang, P Zhou, A Daaoub, S Sangtarash, S Zhao, Z Yang, Y Zhou, Y Zou, S Decurtins, R Häner, Y Yang, Hatef Sadeghi and S Liu, and W Hong, Chemical Science, Vol. , no. , pp. , 2023. DOI: 10.1039/D3SC00075C
Tunable Quantum Dots from Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons Using a Multi-Gate Architecture, J Zhang, O Braun, GB Barin, S Sangtarash, J Overbeck, R Darawish, M Stiefel, R Furrer, A Olziersky, K Müllen, I Shorubalko, AHS Daaoub, P Ruffieux, R Fasel, Hatef Sadeghi, ML Perrin, M Calame, Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 2201204, 2023. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202201204
Scaling of Quantum Interference from Single Molecules to Molecular Cages and their Monolayers, X Xua, J Wanga, N Blankevoortb, A Daaoub, S Sangtarash, J Shi, C Fang, S Yuan, L Chen, J Liu, Y Yang, Hatef Sadeghi, and W Hong, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Vol. 119, no. 46, pp. e2211786119, 2022. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2211786119
Thermoelectric Enhancement in Single Organic Radical Molecules, J Hurtado-Gallego, S Sangtarash, R Davidson, L Rincón-García, A Daaoub, G Rubio-Bollinger, CJ Lambert, VS Oganesyan, MR Bryce, N Agraït, and Hatef Sadeghi, Nano Letters, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 948–953, 2022. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03698
Redox-addressable single-molecule junctions incorporating a persistent organic radical, S Naghibi, S Sangtarash, VJ Kumar, JZ Wu, MM Judd, X Qiao, E Gorenskai, SJ Higgins, N Cox, RJ Nichols, Hatef Sadeghi, PJ Low and A Vezzolia, Angewandte, Vol. , no. , pp. , 2022. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202116985
Engineering Transport Orbitals in Single-Molecule Junctions, A Daaoub, L Ornago, D Vogel, P Bastante, S Sangtarash, M Parmeggiani, J Kamer, N Agraït, M Mayor, H van der Zant, and Hatef Sadeghi, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 13, no. , pp. 9156–9164, 2022. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01851
Reversible Switching between Destructive and Constructive Quantum Interference Using Atomically Precise Chemical Gating of Single-Molecule Junctions, C Tang, L Huang, S Sangtarash, M Noori, Hatef Sadeghi, H Xia, W Hong, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Vol. 143, No. 25 , pp. 9385–9392, 2021. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c00928
Genomics of Carbon Atomic Chains, A Daaoub, C Lambert and Hatef Sadeghi, Carbon, Vol. 183, pp. 977-983, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.07.079
Optical probes of molecules as nano-mechanical switches, D Kos, GD Martino, A Boehmke, B de Nijs, D Berta, T Földes, S Sangtarash, E Rosta, Hatef Sadeghi and JJ Baumberg, Nature Communications 11, 5905, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19703-y
Folding a Single-Molecule Junction, C Wu, D Bates, S Sangtarash, N Ferri, A Thomas, SJ Higgins, CM Robertson, RJ Nichols, Hatef Sadeghi, and A Vezzoli, Nano Letters, 20, 11, 7980–7986, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02815
Controlled Quantum Dot Formation in Atomically Engineered Graphene Nanoribbon Field-Effect Transistors, ME Abbassi, ML Perrin, GB Barin, S Sangtarash, J Overbeck, O Braun, C Lambert, Q Sun, T Prechtl, A Narita, K Müllen, P Ruffieux, Hatef Sadeghi, R Fasel and M Calame, ACS Nano, 14, 5, 5754–5762, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c00604
Switching Quantum Interference in Phenoxyquinone Single Molecule Junction with Light, A Daaoub,S Sangtarash and Hatef Sadeghi, Nanomaterials, 10, 8, 1544, 2020, DOI: 10.3390/nano10081544
Radical Enhancement of Molecular Thermoelectric Efficiency, S Sangtarash, Hatef Sadeghi, Nanoscale Advances (Communication), 2, 3, 1031-1035, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/C9NA00649D
Cross-plane transport in a single-molecule two-dimensional van der Waals heterojunction, S Zhao, Q Wu, J Pi, J Liu, J Zheng, S Hou, J Wei, R Li, Hatef Sadeghi, Y Yang, J Shi, Z Chen, Z Xiao, C Lambert, W Hong, Science Advances, 6, 22, eaba6714, 2020, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba6714
Robust graphene-based molecular devices, ME Abbassi, S Sangtarash, X Liu, ML Perrin, O Braun, CJ Lambert, H van der Zant, S Yitzchaik, S Decurtins, SX Liu, Hatef Sadeghi, M Calame, Nature Nanotechnology, 14, 10, 957-961, 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41565-019-0533-8
Anti-resonance features of destructive quantum interference in single-molecule thiophene junctions achieved by electrochemical gating, J Bai, A Daaoub, S Sangtarash, X Li, Y Tang, Q Zou, Hatef Sadeghi, S Liu, X Huang, Z Tan, J Liu, Y Yang, J Shi, G Meszaros, W Chen, CJ Lambert, W Hong, Nature Materials, 18, 4, 364-369, 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41563-018-0265-4
Thermal transport through single molecule junctions, N Mosso, Hatef Sadeghi, A Gemma, S Sangtarash, CJ Lambert, B Gotsmann, Nano Letters, 19, 11, 7614-7622, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02089
Turning the Tap: Conformational Control of Quantum Interference to Modulate Single Molecule Conductance, F Jiang, D Trupp, N Algethami, H Zheng, W He, A Alqorashi, C Zhu, C Tang, R Li, J Liu, Hatef Sadeghi, J Shi, R Davidson, M Korb, M Naher, AN Sobolev, S Sangtarash, PJ Low, W Hong, C Lambert, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 131, 19163–19169, 2019, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201909461
Discriminating Seebeck sensing of molecules, Hatef Sadeghi, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21, 5, 2378-2381, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C8CP05991H
Unusual Length-Dependence of Conductance in Cumulene Molecular Wire, W Xu, E Leary, S Hou, S Sangtarash, T Gonzalez, G Rubio-Bollinger, Q Wu, Hatef Sadeghi, L Tejerina, K Christensen, N Agrait, S Higgins, CJ Lambert, R Nichols, HL Anderson, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58, 25, 8378-8382, 2019, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201901228
Atomically defined angstrom-scale all-carbon junctions, Z Tan, D Zhang, H Tian, Q Wu, S Hou, J Pi, Hatef Sadeghi, Z Tang, Y Yang, J Liu, Y Tan, Z Chen, J Shi, Z Xiao, CJ Lambert, S Xie, W Hong, Nature Communications, 10, 1748, 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09793-8
Quantum and Phonon Interference Enhanced Molecular-Scale Thermoelectricity, Hatef Sadeghi, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123 , 20 , 12556-12562, 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b12538
Magnetic edge states, spin dynamics and coherent manipulation of molecular graphene nanoribbons, M Slota, A Keerthi, WK Myers, E Tretyakov, M Baumgarten, A Ardavan, Hatef Sadeghi, CJ Lambert, A Narita, K Müllen, L Bogani, Nature, 557, 7707, 691-695, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0154-7
The conductance of porphyrin-based molecular nanowires increases with length, N Algethami, Hatef Sadeghi, S Sangtarash, and CJ Lambert, Nano Letters, 18, 7, 4482-4486, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01621
Low-frequency noise in graphene tunnel junctions, P Puczkarski, Q Wu, Hatef Sadeghi, S Hou, A Karimi, Y Sheng, JH Warner, CJ Lambert, GAD Briggs, JA Mol, ACS Nano, 12, 9, 9451-9460, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b04713
Theory of Electron, Phonon and Spin Transport in Nanoscale Quantum Devices, Hatef Sadeghi, Nanotechnology, 29, 37, 373001, 2018. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aace21
Breakdown of Curly Arrow Rules in Anthraquinone, J Alqahtani, Hatef Sadeghi, S Sangtarash, CJ Lambert, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57, 57, 15065-15069, 2018. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201807257
Anchor groups for graphene-porphyrin single-molecule transistors, B Limburg, JO Thomas, G Holloway, Hatef Sadeghi, S Sangtarash, IC Hou, J Cremers, A Narita, K Müllen, CJ Lambert,GAD Briggs, J Mol, and HL Anderson, Advanced Functional Materials, 28, 1803629, 2018. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201803629
Toward high thermoelectric performance of thiophene and ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) molecular wires, M Famili, IM Grace, Q Al-Galiby, Hatef Sadeghi, CJ Lambert, Advanced Functional Materials, 28, 15, 1703135, 2018, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201703135
Robust molecular anchoring to graphene electrodes, Hatef Sadeghi, S Sangtarash, C Lambert, Nano Letters, 17, 8, 4611-4618, 2017. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01001
Distinguishing lead and molecule states in graphene-based single-electron transistors, P Gehring, JK Sowa, J Cremers, Q Wu, Hatef Sadeghi, Y Sheng, JH Warner, CJ Lambert, GAD Briggs, JA Mol, ACS Nano, 11, 5, 4739-4745, 2017. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b00570
Gating of quantum interference in molecular junctions by heteroatom substitution, X Liu, S Sangtarash, D Reber, D Zhang, Hatef Sadeghi, J Shi, ZY Xiao, W Hong, CJ Lambert, SX Liu, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56, 1, 173-176, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201609051
Protonation tuning of quantum interference in azulene-type single-molecule junctions, G Yang, S Sangtarash, Z Liu, X Li, Hatef Sadeghi, Z Tan, R Li, J Zheng, X Dong, J Liu, Y Yang, J Shi, Z Xiao, G Zhang, CJ Lambert, W Hong, D Zhang, Chemical Science, 8 11, 7505-7509, 2017. DOI: 10.1039/C7SC01014A
Quantum interference in graphene nanoconstrictions, P Gehring, Hatef Sadeghi, S Sangtarash, CS Lau, J Liu, A Ardavan, JH Warner, CJ Lambert, GAD Briggs, JA Mol, Nano Letters, 16, 7, 4210-4216, 2016. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01104
Cross-plane enhanced thermoelectricity and phonon suppression in graphene/MoS2 van der Waals heterostructures, Hatef Sadeghi, S Sangtarash, CJ Lambert, 2D Materials, 4, 1, 015012, 2016. DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/4/1/015012
Functionalization mediates heat transport in graphene nanoflakes, H Han, Y Zhang, N Wang, MK Samani, Y Ni, ZY Mijbil, M Edwards, S Xiong, K Saaskilahti, M Murugesan, Y Fu, L Ye, Hatef Sadeghi, S Bailey, YA Kosevich, CJ Lambert, J Liu, S Volz, Nature Communications, 7, 11281, 2016, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11281
Conductance enlargement in picoscale electroburnt graphene nanojunctions, Hatef Sadeghi, JA Mol, CS Lau, GAD Briggs, J Warner and CJ Lambert, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 112, 9, 2658-2663, 2015. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418632112
Oligoyne molecular junctions for efficient room temperature thermoelectric power generation, Hatef Sadeghi, S Sangtarash, CJ Lambert, Nano Letters, 15, 11, 7467-7472, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03033
A quantum circuit rule for interference effects in single-molecule electrical junctions, DZ Manrique, C Huang, M Baghernejad, X Zhao, OA Al-Owaedi, Hatef Sadeghi, V Kaliginedi, W Hong, M Gulcur, T Wandlowski, MR Bryce and CJ Lambert, Nature Communications, 6, 6389, 2015. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7389
Redox-dependent Franck-Condon blockade and avalanche transport in a graphene-fullerene single-molecule transistor, CS Lau, Hatef Sadeghi, G Rogers, S Sangtarash, P Dallas, K Porfyrakis, J Warner, CJ Lambert, GAD Briggs, JA Mol, Nano Letters, 16, 1, 170-176, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03434
Searching the hearts of graphene-like molecules for simplicity, sensitivity, and logic, S Sangtarash, C Huang, Hatef Sadeghi, G Sorohhov, J Hauser, T Wandlowski, W Hong, S Decurtins, SX Liu, CJ Lambert, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 137, 35, 11425-11431, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b06558
Magic ratios for connectivity-driven electrical conductance of graphene-like molecules, Y Geng, S Sangtarash, C Huang, Hatef Sadeghi, Y Fu, W Hong, T Wandlowski, S Decurtins, CJ Lambert and S Liu, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 137, 13, 4469-4476, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b00335
Graphene-porphyrin single-molecule transistors, JA Mol, CS Lau, WJM Lewis, Hatef Sadeghi, C Roche, A Cnossen, JH Warner, CJ Lambert, HL Anderson, GAD Briggs, Nanoscale, 7, 31, 13181-13185, 2015. DOI: 10.1039/C5NR03294F