Kamran Daneshjoo is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.
Education
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy by "The Viva examination held at Amirkabir University of technology, Iran June 1989". His claim to having earned a Doctor of Philosophy has been disputed in Persian language blogs. Previously, his web-page mentioned the Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology as the institute granting the Doctor of Philosophy
Career
His web-site, Where?, claims he has a Bs.C. degree from Queen Mary College (United Kingdom) and a Ms.C. degree from Imperial College, after which at some point he was expelled from the United Kingdom and restricted from entering the Schengen Area due to a prior arson attempt at the Penguin Book Store in London. lieutenant was also reported by the Mehr News Agency on 30 August 2009 that, following a probe into Daneshjoo"s background during his ministerial nomination procedure, the chairman of the Education Committee of Iran"s parliament, Ali Abbaspour-Tehrani announced: "He does not have a Doctor of Philosophy, neither from London"s Imperial College nor from the Amirkabir University."
Before being selected as Iran"s minister of science, research, and technology, Daneshjoo was the head of the headquarters for the Iranian presidential election, 2009. He is accused by opposition leaders of being one of the engineers of election fraud.
Daneshjou is the co-author of an article published in the journal Engineering with Computers in 2009.
In many places the text duplicates verbatim that of an earlier paper: "Ricochet of a tungsten heavy alloy long-rod projectile from deformable steel plates", published by South Korean scientists in the Journal of Physics Doctorate: Applied Physics in 2002. Plagiarism
On 22 September 2009, Nature, the prominent British scientific journal, reported that "large chunks of text, figures, and tables in a 2009 paper co-authored by Kamran Daneshjou, Iran"s science minister, are identical to those of a 2002 paper published by South Korean researchers".
On 25 September 2009, Springer, the publisher that Daneshjou"s paper, was submitted to, retracts paper by Iran"s science minister. Similar plagiarism has been found in three other papers by Daneshjou.
Iranian scientists said they intend to press for a plagiarism inquiry.
Another paper for which he took cr has since been retracted by Engineering with Computers. Gender segregation in universities
Ideological cleansing of universities
He has also blamed much of the current post-election unrest in Iranian universities on "subversive" behavior by students and professors. Sanctions
Daneshjoo has been on the sanction list of the European Union since December 2011 due to his alleged role in the Iran"s missile development and nuclear program
Politics
Daneshjou has also called for the segregation of university students based on gender in accordance with the "Islamic worldview".
Views
lieutenant was reported that when obtaining Majlis"s vote of confidence, the parliament speaker Ali Larijani defended him, saying he obtained his certificate in Tehran after he was kicked out of a London college for "participating in a rally opposing" British writer Salman Rushdie.