Dr. Bahareh Honarparvar received her Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry (Computational Chemistry) from Iran in 2010. Her Ph.D thesis was about the application of ab initio electronic structure calculations for drug-like compounds. From 2002 up to 2006, she was manager of industrial projects in Ministry of oil as well as Polymer and petrochemical research Centre in Tehran-Iran. In 2007, she was employed as a project manager and educational research member in Institution for Curriculum Development & Educational Innovations, Tehran, Iran till April 2010. After getting her PhD, she started her research on computational HIV drug design as a computational postdoctoral fellow at KwaZulu-Natal University in Durban, South Africa from July 2010 up to June 2013. She is currently appointed as a lecturer in the school of Health Sciences (Pharmaceutical Sciences). Her research interest is mainly on applying computational medicinal chemistry approaches (Molecular Dynamic simulation, molecular docking, binding free energy calculation) to investigate enzyme-inhibitor interactions for synthesizing novel drugs related to different diseases.

Computational Chemistry