Career
For the three years immediately prior to taking up his position in Vienna, Ambassador Soltanieh was Head of Iran's National Escort Team for IAEA Inspections; a member of delegation to the IAEA Board of Governors and General Conference; and a member of the negotiating team, Iran-EU3/EU Negotiation on Nuclear Energy.
Ambassador Soltanieh is a nuclear physicist by training and as Associate Professor at faculties of science and international relations in various universities between 1988 and 1997 taught and supervised graduate students in nuclear physics, and from 2000 to the present in disarmament & international security.