Education
Sharif University of Technology.
Sharif University of Technology.
He is a fellow of Street Cross College and is affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Soft and Biological Matter. In 2014 he was awarded for his "pioneering contributions to the field of active soft matter, particularly microscopic swimmers and active colloids". The prize was presented to him at a ceremony in Paris on August 27, 2014.
He grew up in Tehran and graduated from Alborz High School in 1989.
This was the first time Iran took part in this international competition. He obtained his Bachelor of Science from Sharif University of Technology (1993), and his Master of Science
(1995) and Doctor of Philosophy (1998) from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS). He has been a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, Joliot Chair and National Center for Scientific Research Visiting Professor at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, and Visiting Professor at College de France.
Before joining Oxford, he held academic positions at IASBS and the University of Sheffield.