The following is a list of notable Iranian scholars, scientists and engineers around the world from the
contemporary
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period. For pre-modern era, see
List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars
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 engineers ...
. 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
* Abu al-Wafa' Buzja ...
.
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Behnaam Aazhang
Behnaam Aazhang (born December 7, 1957) is the J.S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and Director of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative.
Early life and education
Aazhang was born in Bandar-Anzali ...
, professor,
Rice University
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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
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, ( fa, هاله افشار; 21 May 1944 – 12 May 2022) was a British life peer in the House of Lords. She had a life-long interest in women's rights and Islamic law. She was a professor at the University of York ...
, academic and peer,
University of York
, mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £8.0 million
, budget = £403.6 million
, chancellor = Heather Melville
, vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery
, students ...
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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 Universit ...
, assassinated quantum field theorist and elementary-particle physicist
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Abbas Amanat, 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
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During the period from 2001 to 2009, seven space tourists made eight s ...
, 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
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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 Guggen ...
, historian,
George Mason University
*
Asef Bayat
Asef Bayat ( fa, آصف بیات) is an Iranian-American scholar. He is currently the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urban ...
, 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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Professor Mahmoud Behzad ( fa, محمود بهزاد, b. 1913 - d. 2007), born in Rasht, the capital city of Gilan province, is known as the father of modern biology in Iran. He wrote more than 100 books in Persian and participated in the author ...]
, 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 educatio ...
, director of
UC Berkeley
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Life Sciences Division
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Touraj Daryaee
Touraj Daryaee ( fa, تورج دریایی; born 1967) is an Iranian Iranologist and historian. He currently works as the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the U ...
, 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 London
*
Kamran Elahian
Kamran Elahian ( fa, کامران الهیان) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur
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, entrepreneur
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Kamran Eshraghian,
VLSI
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pioneer in Australia
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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi ( fa, محسن فخریزاده مهابادی ;195827 November 2020) was an Iranian nuclear physicist and scientist. He was regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program.
Born in Qom in 1958, Fakhrizadeh joine ...
, nuclear physicist and scientist, former head of the
Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research
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.
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Fereydoon Family, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics,
Emory University
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Yasaman Farzan
Yasaman Farzan ( fa, یاسمن فرزان was born 1977 in Tabriz
Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous cit ...
, 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
Nasir Gebelli ( fa, ناصر جبلی, also Nasser Gebelli, born 1957) is an Iranian-American programmer and video game designer usually credited in his games as simply Nasir. Gebelli wrote Apple II games for Sirius Software, created his own co ...
, computer scientist and video game developer
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Zoubin Ghahramani
Zoubin Ghahramani FRS ( fa, زوبین قهرمانی; born 8 February 1970) is a British-Iranian researcher and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He holds joint appointments at University College London and t ...
, 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
Mehdi Golshani (Persian: مهدی گلشنی, born 1939 in Isfahan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist, academic, scholar, philosopher and distinguished professor at Sharif University of Technology.
He is also member of I ...
, 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, engineering ...
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Vartan Gregorian, president,
Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Mohammad Reza Hafeznia
Mohammad Reza Hafeznia (born 1955, Birjand, Iran) is a full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. He obtained his Ph.D in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University in 1990.
He has published 13 books on ...
, professor,
University of Tehran
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Ali Hajimiri
Ali Hajimiri is an academic, entrepreneur, and inventor in various fields of engineering, including electrical engineering and biomedical engineering. He is the Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at the California In ...
,
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 t ...
, professor of hydrogeology; expertise: theories of porous media (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
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Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi ( fa, بابک حسیبی, born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer, computer scientist, and applied mathematician who is the inaugural Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Compu ...
, 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
Eric James Hooglund (born March 18, 1944) is an American political scientist and an expert on contemporary Iran. Since 2010 he has been a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden.
Hooglund ...
, professor of political science
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Reza Iravani Mohammad Reza Iravani (in Persian: رضا ایروانی) is a professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He holds the L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in ...
, 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
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
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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)" (L ...
, 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 money ...
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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
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
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Ali Javan
Ali Javan ( fa, علی جوان, Ali Javān; December 26, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was an Iranian-American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successf ...
, physicist and inventor of the
gas laser
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at
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
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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/8 ...
, pioneering physicist
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Naser Kamalian
Nasser Kamalian (born 1931 in Iran) is an Iranian medical scholar who can be considered the father of modern neuropathology in Iran. He has published around 60 major articles in prominent Iranian and international medical journals, and has for 40&n ...
, 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, founding director of Center for Persian Studies,
University of Maryland
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Homayoon Kazerooni
Homayoon Kazerooni ( fa, همایون کازرونی, translit=Homâyun Kâzeruni, ) is an Iranian-born American roboticist, mechanical engineering, and professor. He serves as a professor of mechanical engineering, and the director of the Berke ...
, 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
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, chief operating officer,
Barclays
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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
Farinaz Koushanfar is an Iranian-American computer scientist whose research concerns embedded systems, ad-hoc networks, and computer security. She is a professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Uni ...
, 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 society ...
, 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 Esfandiar Maasoumi (born March 5, 1950) is an econometrician and an economist. He is a Distinguished Professor at Emory University.http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~emaasou/CV1_test.html He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Londo ...
, 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
, prov ...
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Iraj Malekpour, professor of space physics
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Alireza Mashaghi
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, 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
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, director of studies in women and gender,
University of Virginia
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Maryam Mirzakhani
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, 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, physician, researcher, infectious diseases specialist, AIDS specialist, professor at the
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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.
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Parviz Moin
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, Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University
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*
Ali Montazeri, public health scientist at the Health Metrics Research Center of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research
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Mohsen Mostafavi
Mohsen Mostafavi (born 1954 in Isfahan) is an Iranian-American architect and educator. Mostafavi is currently the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From 2008 through 2019, Mostafavi served ...
, dean of
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
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*
Hamid Mowlana
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, director of the Division of International Communication at
American University
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in
Washington D.C.
)
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, image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, Na ...
, 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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Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...
,
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
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Hossein Nasr
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Born in Tehran, Nasr completed his education in Iran and the United St ...
, philosopher,
George Washington University
, mottoeng = "God is Our Trust"
, established =
, type = Private federally chartered research university
, academic_affiliations =
, endowment = $2.8 billion (2022)
, preside ...
*
Farzad Nazem
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, 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
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Background and education
He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from University College London (UCL), Engla ...
, vice president of business development, PDF Solutions, Inc.
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Pierre Omidyar, founder of
eBay
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Kaveh Pahlavan
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, professor and director of CWINS,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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, mottoeng = "Theory and Practice"
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, former_name = Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science (1865-1886)
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Hashem Pesaran, fellow of
Trinity College Trinity College may refer to:
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* 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 span ...
, former director of the Applied Econometrics Program at
UCLA
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, founding editor of the ''
Journal of Applied Econometrics
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Cambridge University
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
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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
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, professor of electromagnetics at UCLA
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Sohrab Rohani Sohrab Rohani is a professor and former chairman of the University of Western Ontario's Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. His main areas of research are crystallization of pharmaceuticals (polymorphism) and process control.
Rohani ...
, chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario
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Mostafa Ronaghi
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, he is the Chief Technology Offi ...
, 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
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Education
Reihaneh ...
, 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
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Farrokh Saidi, medical professor and administrator, permanent member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences
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Jawad Salehi
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, inventor of optical code division multiple access, professor of electrical engineering at Sharif University of Technology
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Majid Samii, 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
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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
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Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, 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, 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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, 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
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solar cells
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Amir Ali Sheibany, professor of geology,
University of Tehran
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; founder and chairman of the National Iranian Steel Corporation (ZobAhan AryaMehr)
*
Saeed Shirkavand, former vice minister in
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (Iran)
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance's functions are:
*Manage the Iranian treasury department,
*Lending by the government to banks in Iran,
*Regulation of Iran's economy and its financial policy,
*implementing & enforcing tax polici ...
, assistant professor in management faculty of
University of Tehran
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*
Hamid Shirvani, president and professor of art and architecture, Briar Cliff University
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Amin Shokrollahi
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, professor of I&C faculty and the head of ALGO lab,
EPFL, Switzerland
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Gholam Reza Sinambari
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He moved to Germany
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, chair of Department of Environmental Engineering,
Fachhochschule
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Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh
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Education
He received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering: electronics (with honors) from the University of ...
, senior scientist,
Henry Ford Health System
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; professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Tehran
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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 actres ...
, professor of religious studies and Middle Eastern history at
UCLA
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, and author of books and articles on contemporary and historical
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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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T ...
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Vahid Tarokh
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, professor,
Harvard University
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Cumrun Vafa
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Early life and education
Cumrun Vafa was born in Tehra ...
, physicist, Harvard University
*
Saba Valadkhan, biomedical scientist; assistant professor and RNA researcher at
Case Western Reserve University
*
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
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, 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 and
fuzzy set
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At the same time, defined ...
,
UC Berkeley
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*
Mehdi Zakerian, visiting professor,
Penn Law Penn may refer to:
Places
England
* Penn, Buckinghamshire
* Penn, West Midlands
United States
* Penn, North Dakota
* Penn, Oregon
* Pennsylvania
** Penn, Pennsylvania
* Penn Lake Park, Pennsylvania
* Penn Township (disambiguation), several munici ...
,
University of Pennsylvania
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, president of Iranian International Studies Association (IISA), editor-in-chief of ''International Studies Journal''
*
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
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He was ...
, 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 pro ...
See also
* List of Iranian scientists
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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' Buzja ...
* Science and technology in Iran
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* List of universities in Iran
This is a list of universities in Iran.
List of universitiesHamedan University of TechnologyHamedan University of TechnologyHekmat Private UniversityQom Province
* Abadan University of Medical Sciences
* Al-Mustafa International University
* Al ...
* Higher education in Iran
* List of Iranian Research Centers
See also
* Science and technology in Iran
* Iran National Science Foundation
* List of universities in Iran
This is a list of universities in Iran.
List of universitiesHamedan University of Technology Hamedan University of TechnologyHekmat ...
* International rankings of Iran in science and technology
* Brain drain in Iran
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, the world's highest in 2006
References
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* 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
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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 ...