The following is a list of notable Iranian scholars, scientists and engineers around the world from the
contemporary period. For pre-modern era, see
List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars. For mathematicians, see
List of Iranian mathematicians
The following is a list of Iranian mathematicians including ethnic Iranian mathematicians.
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* Abhari (?–1262/1265)
* Abu Nasr-e Mansur (c. 960–1036)
* Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (900–971), mathematician and astronomer
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Behnaam Aazhang, professor,
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...
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Akbar Adibi, electronic engineer, VLSI researcher, professor of engineering,
Amirkabir University of Technology
Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر), also called the Tehran Polytechnic, is a public technological university located in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1928, AUT is the second oldest technical uni ...
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Majid Adibzadeh, scholar and Political scientist
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Haleh Afshar, academic and peer,
University of York
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Masoud Alimohammadi
Masoud Alimohammadi ( fa, مسعود علیمحمدی; 24 August 1959 – 12 January 2010) was an Iranian quantum field theorist and elementary-particle physicist and a distinguished professor of elementary particle physics at the Univers ...
, assassinated quantum field theorist and elementary-particle physicist
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Abbas Amanat
Abbas Amanat ( fa, عباس امانت) is an Iranian-born American historian, scholar, author, editor, and professor. He serves as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Stu ...
, professor of history and international studies at Yale University
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Shahram Amiri
Shahram Amiri ( fa, شهرام امیری ''Šahrâm Amiri''; 8 November 1978 – 3 August 2016) was an Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared from Iran during 2009–2010 under disputed circumstances, and was executed by the Iranian government ...
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Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari ( fa, انوشه انصاری ; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO o ...
, the world's first female
space tourist, co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc., co-founder and former CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI)
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Farhad Ardalan, physicist,
IPM
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Nima Arkani-Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed ( fa, نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian , professor,
Institute for Advanced Study
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Nasser Ashgriz, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering,
University of Toronto
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Touraj Atabaki
Touraj Atabaki ( fa, تورج اتابکی, born February 23, 1950) is Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the Leiden University. He was the Senior Research Fellow at the Internationa ...
, professor of social history of the Middle East and Central Asia, Department of History,
University of Amsterdam
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Reza Amrollahi
Reza Amrollahi ( fa, رضا امراللهی) is a physicist and professor.
Biography
He was the professor of some of the Iranian universities such as Khaje Nasir University and Amir Kabir university. Reza Amrollahi was the president of the Ato ...
, Physicist and the former president of the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) is the main Iranian government agency responsible for operating nuclear energy and nuclear fuel cycle installations in Iran. AEOI is the primary organization responsible for nuclear technology researc ...
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Mehdi Bahadori
Mehdi N. Bahadori (Persian: مهدی بهادرینژاد) (born 1933, Tehran) is a professor of mechanical engineering at Sharif University of Technology. His research specialties include solar energy applications and passive cooling of buil ...
, professor of mechanical engineering
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Hossein Baharvand
Hossein Baharvand is an Iranian stem cell and developmental biologist. He received his B.Sc. in biology from Shiraz University in 1994, and M.Sc. in Developmental Biology from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran in 1996. He then obtained his Ph.D ...
, professor of stem cell and developmental biology, and director of Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology
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Shaul Bakhash
Shaul Bakhash (in fa, شائول بخاش), is an Iranian-American historian in Iranian studies at George Mason University where he is a "Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History."
Bakhash is Jewish and was born in Iran. He is a former Guggenhe ...
, historian,
George Mason University
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Asef Bayat, professor of sociology and Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Nariman Behravesh
Nariman Behravesh is Chief Economist at the consulting firm IHS Markit, and author of ''Spin-Free Economics: A No-Nonsense, Nonpartisan Guide to Today's Global Economic Debates'' (McGraw Hill).
Directing the economic forecasting process at IHS ...
, chief economist and executive vice president,
Global Insight
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Mahmoud Behzad, pioneer Iranian biologist
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Mina Bissell
Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist known for her research on breast cancer. In particular, she has studied the effects of a cell's microenvironment, including its extracellular matrix, on tissue function.
Early life and education ...
, director of
UC Berkeley
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Life Sciences Division
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Touraj Daryaee, Iranologist and historian,
University of California, Irvine
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Abbas Edalat
Abbas Edalat ( fa, عباس عدالت) is a British-Iranian academic who is a professor of computer science and mathematics at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London and a political activist. In a 2018 letter to The Guardian, 1 ...
, professor of computer science and mathematics,
Imperial College
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
London
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Kamran Elahian
Kamran Elahian ( fa, کامران الهیان) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond ...
, entrepreneur
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Kamran Eshraghian,
VLSI pioneer in Australia
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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, nuclear physicist and scientist, former head of the
Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research.
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Fereydoon Family, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics,
Emory University
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Yasaman Farzan, Kharazmi young scientist Award in 2006, Young Scientist Prize of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) in 2008, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Prize in 2013
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Nasir Gebelli, computer scientist and video game developer
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Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of information engineering, Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
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Mohammed Ghanbari
Mohammed Ghanbari ( fa, محمد قنبری) is an emeritus professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering focused in the areas of Video Networking at the University of Essex.
He graduated from Aryamehr University of Technology in ...
, professor,
University of Essex
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Mehdi Golshani, professor,
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, enginee ...
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Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian; fa, وارتان گرگوریان (April 8, 1934 – April 15, 2021) was an Armenian-American academic, educator, and historian. He served as president of the Carnegie Corporation from 1997 to 2021.
An Armenian born in I ...
, president,
Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Mohammad Reza Hafeznia, professor,
University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...
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Ali Hajimiri,
Caltech
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, professor of electrical engineering, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.
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Majid Hassanizadeh
Seyed Majid Hassanizadeh ( fa, سید مجید حسنیزاده; born 1952) is a professor of hydrogeology at Utrecht University, where he heads the Hydrogeology group at the Faculty of Geosciences. His research focuses on flow of fluids and ...
, professor of hydrogeology; expertise: theories of porous media (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
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Babak Hassibi, professor of electrical engineering,
Caltech
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Mahmoud Hessaby
Mahmoud Hessabi (or Hessaby, fa, محمود حسابی, February 23, 1903 – September 3, 1992) was an Iranian nuclear physicist and senator. He was the Minister of Education of Pahlavi Iran in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosad ...
, physicist, father of modern physics in Iran
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Payam Heydari, professor of electrical engineering and computer science,
University of California, Irvine
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Eric Hooglund, professor of political science
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Reza Iravani, professor and the L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto
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Ali Jafari
Ali Jafari ( fa, علی جعفری), is a serial entrepreneur who is well known for his research and entrepreneurship in the area of Information Technology (IT), more specifically, on development of a series of "Learning Management System(s)" ...
, professor of computer and information technology,
Purdue University
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and ...
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Hamid Jafarkhani
Hamid Jafarkhani ( fa, حمید جعفرخانی) (born 1966, in Tehran) is an Iranian-born American electrical engineer and professor. He serves as the Chancellor's Professor in electrical engineering and computer science in the Henry Samueli S ...
, professor in electrical engineering and computer science,
University of California, Irvine
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Ali Javan, physicist and inventor of the
gas laser at
MIT
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Kamaloddin Jenab
Kamaloddin Jenab ( fa, كمالالدین جناب; 1908–2006) was an Iranian pioneer physicist. He is often credited for founding academic experimental science in Iranian universities.Shargh newspaper article: http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/ ...
, pioneering physicist
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Naser Kamalian, medical scholar and the father of modern neuropathology in Iran
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Mehran Kardar
Mehran Kardar ( fa, مهران کاردار; August 1957) is an Iranian born physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute (USA). He received his ...
, physicist,
MIT
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Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak ( fa, احمد کریمی حکاک, born February 1944 in Mashhad, Iran) is a Persian literary figure and Iranologist.
Life
Education
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak holds a BA in English Literature and a Teacher's Certificate from the U ...
, founding director of Center for Persian Studies,
University of Maryland
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Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of
mechanical engineering
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at the
University of California, Berkeley
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,
[http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/kazerooni/ , University of California, Berkeley] co-founder and Chief Scientist of
Berkeley Bionics,
[, Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory] inventor of the
HULC
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Shaygan Kheradpir
Shaygan Kheradpir ( fa, شایگان خردپیر; born December 19, 1960) is an American businessman and technology executive. Kheradpir holds a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He is ...
, chief operating officer,
Barclays
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Barclays traces ...
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Omid Kordestani
Omid R. Kordestani ( fa, امید کردستانی; born 1963) is an Iranian-American businessman who was the Executive Chairman at Twitter from October 2015 to June 2020 and a board member of the company until October 2022. He was a Senior Vic ...
, senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations,
Google
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Farinaz Koushanfar, Henry Booker Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego (UCSD); Director of the Center for Machine Intelligence and Security (MICS) at UCSD
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Caro Lucas
Caro Lucas Ghukasian ( hy, Կարո Լուկաս Ղուկասեան); ( fa, کارو لوکاس قوکاسیان; September 4, 1949 – July 8, 2010) was an Iranian Armenian scientist. His many areas of contribution to Iranian scientific societ ...
, scientist; professor and founding director of the Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing (CIPCE), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran; researcher at the School of Cognitive Sciences (SCS),
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics
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In some countries, institutes can ...
(IPM), Tehran
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Esfandiar Maasoumi, Fellow of the
Royal Statistical Society
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...
,
Southern Methodist University
, mottoeng = " The truth will make you free"
, established =
, type = Private research university
, accreditation = SACS
, academic_affiliations =
, religious_affiliation = United Methodist Church
, president = R. Gerald Turner
, p ...
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Iraj Malekpour Iraj Malekpour (ایرج ملکپور) is an born Amol Iranian university professor of space physics.
He was famous in Iran for writing and preparing the annual calendar that was officially used in Iran until 2002.
He holds an adjunct faculty posi ...
, professor of space physics
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Alireza Mashaghi
Alireza Mashaghi is a biophysicist and medical scientist at Leiden University. He is known for his contributions to single-molecule analysis of chaperone assisted protein folding, molecular topology and medical systems biophysics and bioengineeri ...
, professor of systems biomedicine and physics,
Leiden University
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and
Harvard University
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Abbas Milani
Abbas Malekzadeh Milani ( fa, عباس ملکزاده میلانی; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of Political Science, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Ira ...
, director of Iranian Studies Program,
Stanford University
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Farzaneh Milani, director of studies in women and gender,
University of Virginia
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Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician and a professor of mathematics at
Stanford University
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, and first woman to be awarded the
Fields Medal
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Minoo Mohraz
Minoo Mohraz ( fa, مينو محرز , born 19 January 1946) is an Iranian physician, researcher and AIDS specialist. She is a full professor (emeritus) of Infectious Diseases at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences and head of the Iranian ...
, physician, researcher, infectious diseases specialist, AIDS specialist, professor at the
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) ( fa, دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران, ''Danushgah-e 'lum Pezeshki-ye Tehran'') is the largest and most highly ranked medical university of Iran. In September 2008, Iran's Min ...
.
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Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin ( fa, پرویز معین ''Parviz Mo'in'' born October 23, 1952, Valandan, Shahreza, Iran) is a fluid dynamicist. He is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Moin has be ...
, Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University
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Ali Montazeri
Ali Montazeri (Ali Montazeri Moghaddam, born September 2, 1958) is an Iranian public health scientist at the Health Metrics Research Center of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research. He is editor-in-chief of an Iranian health journal: P ...
, public health scientist at the Health Metrics Research Center of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research
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Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
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Hamid Mowlana, director of the Division of International Communication at
American University
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in
Washington D.C., and former president of the
International Association for Media and Communication Research
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Firouz Naderi, associate director, Project Formulation and Strategy,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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,
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
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Hossein Nasr, philosopher,
George Washington University
, mottoeng = "God is Our Trust"
, established =
, type = Private federally chartered research university
, academic_affiliations =
, endowment = $2.8 billion (2022)
, presi ...
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Farzad Nazem, former chief technical officer and executive vice president,
Yahoo!
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Camran Nezhat, director of Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology,
Stanford University
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Mehrdad Nikoonahad, vice president of business development, PDF Solutions, Inc.
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Pierre Omidyar
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, founder of
eBay
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Kaveh Pahlavan
Kaveh Pahlavan ( born in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran), is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and the director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Wor ...
, professor and director of CWINS,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Hashem Pesaran, fellow of
Trinity College Trinity College may refer to:
Australia
* Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales
* Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...
, Fellow of The
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars s ...
, former director of the Applied Econometrics Program at
UCLA
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, founding editor of the ''
Journal of Applied Econometrics'',
Cambridge University
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
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Ali R. Rabi, founding chair of the Middle East Citizens Assembly, University of Maryland
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Yahya Rahmat-Samii, professor of electromagnetics at UCLA
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Sohrab Rohani, chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario
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Mostafa Ronaghi, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Illumina
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Pardis Sabeti, geneticist, assistant professor, Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
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Hossein Sadri, dean, associate professor of architectural theory,
Girne American University
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Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, cryptographer, professor in School of Computer Science,
University of Wollongong
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Muhammad Sahimi
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, chair of Chemical Engineering Department,
University of Southern California
, mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it"
, religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist
, established =
, accreditation = WSCUC
, type = Private research university
, academic_affiliations =
, endowment = $8.1 ...
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Farrokh Saidi, medical professor and administrator, permanent member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences
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Jawad Salehi, inventor of optical code division multiple access, professor of electrical engineering at Sharif University of Technology
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Majid Samii
Majid Samii (Romanization of Persian: Majid Samiêi), ( fa, مجید سمیعی, born 19 June 1937) is an Iranian neurosurgeon and medical scientist.
Biography
Samii was born in Tehran, Iran on 19 June 1937. After having completed his high scho ...
, neurosurgeon and scientist, president of the International Society for Neurosurgery
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Mohammad-Nabi Sarbolouki
Mohammad-Nabi Sarbolouki ( fa, محمدنبی سربلوکی) was a distinguished Iranian biophysicist and polymer chemist and one of the most influential individuals behind modern scientific movement in Iran. He was known as the inventor of a DNA ...
, professor of macromolecular physical chemistry,
Tehran University
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching p ...
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Hossein Seifzadeh, professor of Department of Political Sciences,
University of Tehran
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Cyrus Shahabi, chair of the Computer Science Department,
University of Southern California
, mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it"
, religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist
, established =
, accreditation = WSCUC
, type = Private research university
, academic_affiliations =
, endowment = $8.1 ...
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Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
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, birth_place = Shiraz, Iran
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, lecturer in Achaemenid archeology and Iranology at Harvard University; full professor of history in Eastern Oregon University,
Eastern Oregon University
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Mohammad Shahidehpour
Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour is a Carl Bodine Distinguished Professor and Chairman in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the author of more than 300 technical papers and five books on elect ...
, former dean of the Graduate College and Associate VP for Research,
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Freidoon Shahidi, university research professor,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Craig Fellow/professor, editor of the ''
Global Finance Journal'',
California State University, Fresno
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Vahid Shams Kolahi, solid-state physicist with contribution to
CIGS and
CdTe solar cells
A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell, is an electronic device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon.
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Amir Ali Sheibany, professor of geology,
University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...
; founder and chairman of the National Iranian Steel Corporation (ZobAhan AryaMehr)
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Saeed Shirkavand, former vice minister in
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (Iran), assistant professor in management faculty of
University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...
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Hamid Shirvani
Hamid Augustine Shirvani (born October 20, 1950) is an architecture scholar, university president and chancellor emeritus.
Early life and education
Shirvani was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in London, England; he was educated in the Unite ...
, president and professor of art and architecture, Briar Cliff University
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Amin Shokrollahi
Amin Shokrollahi (born 1964) is an Iranian mathematician who has worked on a variety of topics including coding theory and algebraic complexity theory. He is best known for his work on iterative decoding of graph based codes for which he received ...
, professor of I&C faculty and the head of ALGO lab,
EPFL, Switzerland
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Gholam Reza Sinambari, chair of Department of Environmental Engineering,
Fachhochschule
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Bingen
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Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh ( fa, حمید سلطانیان زاده) is an Iranian biomedical engineer. He was born in Yazd in 1960.
Education
He received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering: electronics (with honors) from the University of ...
, senior scientist,
Henry Ford Health System; professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...
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Saba Soomekh
Saba T. Soomekh ( fa, صبا سومخ) is an Iranian-born American professor and author.
Early life and education
Soomekh was born in Tehran, Iran, to a Persian-Jewish family. to Hamid and Manijeh Soomekh. She is a sister of Hollywood actr ...
, professor of religious studies and Middle Eastern history at
UCLA
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, and author of books and articles on contemporary and historical
Iranian Jewish
Persian Jews or Iranian Jews ( fa, یهودیان ایرانی, ''yahudiān-e-Irāni''; he, יהודים פרסים ''Yəhūdīm Parsīm'') are the descendants of Jews who were historically associated with the Persian Empire, whose successor s ...
culture
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Abdolkarim Soroush
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, philosopher
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Kamran Talattof, professor,
University of Arizona
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Vahid Tarokh, professor,
Harvard University
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Cumrun Vafa
Cumrun Vafa ( fa, کامران وفا ; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.
Early life and education
Cumrun Vafa was born in Tehran ...
, physicist, Harvard University
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Saba Valadkhan
Saba Valadkhan ( fa, صبا ولدخان) is an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2005, she was awarded the GE / '' Science'' Young Scie ...
, biomedical scientist; assistant professor and RNA researcher at
Case Western Reserve University
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Puya Vahabi, Professor/Lecturer of AI at the
University of California, Berkeley
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Alireza Yaghoubi, materials scientist, designer and entrepreneur
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Ehsan Yarshater
Ehsan Yarshater ( fa, احسان يارشاطر, April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of The Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Profe ...
, distinguished professor,
Columbia University
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Houman Younessi
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, professor, assistant dean of academics,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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– Hartford Graduate Campus; director of Rensselaer Initiative in Systems Engineering (RISE)
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Lotfi A. Zadeh, creator of
fuzzy logic
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and
fuzzy set,
UC Berkeley
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Mehdi Zakerian, visiting professor,
Penn Law,
University of Pennsylvania
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, president of Iranian International Studies Association (IISA), editor-in-chief of ''International Studies Journal''
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Esmail Zanjani, department chair of Department of Animal Biotechnology at
University of Nevada, Reno
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Animal Biotechnology Directory, University of Nevada, Reno
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* Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history, professor at Tehran University
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching p ...
See also
* List of Iranian scientists
The following is a non-comprehensive list of Iranian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age. For the modern era, see List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineer ...
from the pre-modern era
*List of Iranian mathematicians
The following is a list of Iranian mathematicians including ethnic Iranian mathematicians.
A
* Abhari (?–1262/1265)
* Abu Nasr-e Mansur (c. 960–1036)
* Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (900–971), mathematician and astronomer
* Abu al-Wafa' Buzjan ...
* Science and technology in Iran
* List of universities in Iran
This is a list of universities in Iran.
List of universitiesHamedan University of Technology Hamedan University of TechnologyHekmat Private UniversityQom Province
* Abadan University of Medical Sciences
* Al-Mustafa International University
* ...
* Higher education in Iran
* List of Iranian Research Centers
See also
* Science and technology in Iran
* Iran National Science Foundation
The Iran National Science Foundation (INSF) ( fa, صندوق حمایت از پژوهشگران کشور) is an Iranian government agency that supports fundamental r ...
* International rankings of Iran in science and technology
* Brain drain in Iran, the world's highest in 2006
References
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Scientists, Contemporary
Iranian
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
Iranian
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...