| Mansour Almatarneh:
Mansour is the co-founder and formulator of products that are based on an organic natural ingredients under brand Indigena. He is focused on designing, developing, and delivering a product that is proven to be of most benefit and safe to our health, skin, hair, and body. His vision is to develop safe, pure, effective, luxurious skin care products from natural botanical ingredients. The ultimate goal is to have Indigena be recognized as an innovative, next-generation cosmetic company that will contribute significantly in the overall health and quality of humans by developing and delivering innovative, scientifically advanced products based on natural and certified organic ingredients. Our difference lies in the uniquely, naturally based, ingredient products for total peace of mind.
EDUCATION:
· Ph.D in Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 2007. .
· M.Sc in Chemistry, Mu’tah University, Jordan, 2000.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Almatarneh, M. H.; Flinn, C. G.; Poirier, R. A. “Ab initio Study of the Decomposition of Formamidine (in the gas phase and in solution)”, Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2005, 83, 2082-2090.
- Almatarneh, M. H.; Flinn, C. G.; Poirier, R. A.; Sokalski, W. A. “Computational Study of the Deamination Reaction of Cytosine with H2O and OHˉ. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 110 (26), 8227-8234, 2006.
- Almatarneh, M. H.; Flinn, C. G.; Poirier, R. A.; Sokalski, W. A. “Mechanisms for the Deamination Reaction of Cytosine with H2O/OHˉ and 2H2O/OHˉ: A Computational Study”, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 48, 831-843, 2008.
- Almatarneh, M. H. “High Level Ab initio Methods and DFT Calculations of the Thermal Decomposition of Ethylamine”, to be submitted to Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
- Almatarneh, M. H.; Booth, V. “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the HLA-Cw4-β2m-KIR2DS1 Complex Associated with the Psoriasis Disease”, in preparation.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST:
- Computational study of the reaction mechanisms and factors that influence selectivity in chemical reactions, such as: Deamination reactions of nucleic acid bases.
- Geometry Optimization: Transition state optimization
- Investigations for systems related to DNA damage and repair.
- Study the effect of different catalysts on the deamination reaction of cytosine and other nucleic acid bases.
- Molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding.
Molecular dynamics simulations of protein associated with skin disease Psoriasis
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
2004 - Present Member of Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC).
2005 - Present Member of Amnesty International, group 60.
2005 - Present Member of Let’s Talk Science, A non-profit organization, Volunteer work.
2008 - Present Member of American Chemical Society (ACS).
2008 - Present Member of Jordanian Chemical Society, Jordan.
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