64 Notable alumni of Sharif University of Technology
Updated: June 07, 2026 EliteDegrees
Sharif University of Technology is ranked #824 in the world and #3 in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 64 notable alumni from Sharif University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Sharif University of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Mohsen Emadi
1976-. (aged 50)
translator
filmmaker
poet
writer
Mohsen Emadi is an Iranian-Mexican poet, translator and filmmaker. Born and raised in Iran, he left for Finland in 2009 and has resided primarily in Mexico since 2012, working as a lecturer and researcher in poetry and comparative literature for various institutes in the country.
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2. Fariborz Haghighat
1951-. (aged 75)
engineer
university teacher
Fariborz Haghighat is an Iranian-Canadian academic, engineer and Distinguished Professor of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering at Concordia University. Haghighat has a Concordia University Research Chair in Energy and Environment and he was Inducted into the Provost's Circle of Distinction in 2009.
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3. Salman A. Avestimehr
scientist
electrical engineer
Salman A. Avestimehr is a Dean's professor at the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Departments of University of Southern California, where he is the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning and the director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of FedML....
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4. Sattar Mahmoudi
engineer
politician
Sattar Mahmoudi is an Iranian engineer, politician and former acting Minister of Energy of Iran, a position he has held, from 20 August 2017 until 29 October 2017. He is also Vice Minister of Energy, a position he has held since 2014.
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5. Mohammad Shahidehpour
1955-. (aged 71)
engineer
Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour is a prominent figure in the field of electrical engineering, currently serving as the Carl Bodine Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology. With over 300 technical papers and five books to his name, Shahidehpour has made significant contributions to electric power systems planning, operation, and control. His...
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6. Babak Hodjat
1967-. (aged 59)
computer scientist
artificial intelligence researcher
Babak Hodjat is a British computer scientist, entrepreneur, and writer. He was the co-founder and CEO of Sentient Technologies and now holds the position of Chief Technology Officer AI at Cognizant. He is a specialist in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. In 1998 Hodjat co-founded Dejima Inc and served as CEO and CTO, his patented work on...
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7. Payam Heydari
academic
electrical engineer
Payam Heydari is an Iranian-American Professor who is noted for his contribution to the field of radio-frequency and millimeter-wave integrated circuits.
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8. Elham Kashefi
computer scientist
Elham Kashefi is a Professor of Computer Science and Personal Chair in quantum computing at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and a Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) researcher at the Sorbonne University. She is known as one of the inventors of blind quantum computing. Her work has included contributions to quantum cryptography, verification of...
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9. Azita Emami
academic
engineer
Azita Emami-Neyestanak is the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at Caltech. Emami works on low-power mixed-mode circuits in scalable technologies. She is Executive Officer of the Department of Electrical Engineering and an investigator in the Heritage Medical Research Institute.
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10. Ali Mohammad Noorian
1949-. (aged 77)
politician
Ali Mohammad Noorian is an Iranian politician and academic who is the Secretary General of founding Islamic Azad University system.
11. Siavash Alamouti
academic
inventor
Siavash Alamouti is an Iranian-born business executive, and entrepreneur. and electrical engineer. He is the Executive Vice President of Innovation R&D at Wells Fargo, and the executive chairman of Mimik Technology, Inc. He is known for the 1998 invention of the Alamouti's code, a type of space–time block code.
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12. Mohammad Hajiaghayi
1979-. (aged 47)
computer scientist
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi is a computer scientist known for his work in algorithms, game theory, social networks, network design, graph theory, and big data. He has over 200 publications with over 185 collaborators and 10 issued patents.
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13. Gina Cody
1957-. (aged 69)
engineer
Gina Parvaneh Cody CM is a Canadian-Iranian engineer and business leader.
14. Taha Yasseri
1984-. (aged 42)
sociologist
editing staff
physicist
Taha Yasseri is a physicist and sociologist known for his research on crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and computational social science. He is a full professor at the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Yasseri is one of the leading scholars in computational social science and his research has been widely covered in mainstream media. Yasseri's research...
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15. Alireza Sheikhattar
1952-. (aged 74)
diplomat
Alireza Sheikhattar is an Iranian diplomat and previous ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Berlin.
16. Behdad Esfahbod
1982-. (aged 44)
programmer
Seyed Behdad Esfahbod MirHosseinZadeh Sarabi is an Iranian-Canadian software engineer and free software developer. He is best known for creating HarfBuzz. He was a software engineer at Facebook from February 2019 until July 1, 2020; before that he was a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google since 2010, and before that at Red Hat.
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17. Farinaz Koushanfar
computer scientist
university teacher
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 University of California, San Diego.
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18. Nasrin Soltankhah
1963-. (aged 63)
mathematician
Nasrin Soltankhah is an Iranian politician who was a Vice President under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2009 to 2013.
19. Marzieh Shah-Daei
1962-. (aged 64)
entrepreneur
businessperson
Marzieh Shah-Daei was the Deputy Minister of Petroleum from 2017 to 2019. As an Iranian engineer, she was the former Executive Director of National Petrochemical Company, as well as "Vice Minister of Petroleum on Petrochemical affairs" from 2016 to 2017.
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20. Gholamreza Shafeie
1951-. (aged 75)
diplomat
politician
Gholamreza Shafeei is an Iranian politician, vice president of strategic monitoring and president of management and planning in the cabinet of Hassan Rouhani and former Ambassador of Iran to Russia.
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21. Hossein Qajeyi
1958-1982 (aged 24)
military leader
amateur wrestler
Hossein Qajeyi was an Iranian military officer and prominent military figure in the Iran–Iraq War. He was the founder of the IRGC's 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division and served as the division's first commander during the war.
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22. Peyman Yazdanian
1969-. (aged 57)
pianist
composer
musician
Peyman Yazdanian is an Iranian pianist and music composer. He has written over forty pieces for solo piano and has composed for both national and foreign feature films. He wrote original soundtracks for plays and multimedia.
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23. Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
1990-. (aged 36)
mathematician
designer
Hamid Naderi Yeganeh is an Iranian mathematician, mathematical artist and digital artist. He is known for using mathematical formulas to create drawings of real-life objects, intricate and symmetrical illustrations, animations, fractals and tessellations. Naderi Yeganeh uses mathematics as the main tool to create artworks. Therefore, his artworks can be totally described by mathematical concepts. Mathematical concepts he uses in his...
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24. Ali Asghar Monesan
1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Ali Asghar Mounesan is an Iranian politician and a former minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts.He was appointed on 13 August 2017 by President Hassan Rouhani.
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25. Elshan Moradi
1985-. (aged 41)
chess player
Elshan Moradi Abadi is an Iranian and American chess grandmaster.
26. Mahmoud Fotouhi Firouzabad
1959-. (aged 67)
academic
Mahmoud Fotouhi Firouzabad is the former president of Sharif University of Technology, serving from 28 August 2014 to 18 October 2021.
27. Majid Sharif
1950-1998 (aged 48)
essayist
writer
journalist
linguist
translator
Majid Sharif was an Iranian translator and journalist who was one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran. He was a follower of the late Islamist modernist leftist theoretician Ali Shariati. Articles by him criticizing Iranian government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5,...
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28. Kioumars Hashemi
1965-. (aged 61)
manager
politician
Kioumars Hashemi is an Iranian executive chairman, who was the former Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from 2023 to 2024. He also served as President of the National Olympic Committee of Iran, from 2014 to 2018.
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29. Mohammad Atrianfar
1954-. (aged 72)
journalist
politician
Mohammad Atrianfar is an Iranian journalist and reformist politician, currently the head of the "Policymaking Council" of the daily newspaper Shargh. He is a member of the Executives of Construction Party. Atrianfar has a degree in petroleum processing engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and was a senior political advisor to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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30. Alireza Afshar
1951-2025 (aged 74)
military officer
mechanical engineer
politician
Alireza Afshar was an Iranian military officer. He served as the political deputy to the Minister of Interior, being appointed in August 2007. In this capacity, he served as head of Country's Election Headquarters during 2008 Iranian legislative election.
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31. Marzieh Afkham
1965-. (aged 61)
diplomat
politician
Marzieh Afkham is an Iranian diplomat who serves as the Iranian ambassador to Slovenia since 2025. She also served as the ambassador to Malaysia for four years. She is considered "one of Iran's most high-profile female public figures".
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32. Mohsen Vezvaei
1960-1982 (aged 22)
military personnel
Major General Mohsen Vezvaei was an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and military figure in the Iran-Iraq War. He was also involved in street protests against the Shah of Iran, and later participated in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.
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33. Akbar Torkan
1952-2021 (aged 69)
engineer
politician
Akbar Torkan was an Iranian mechanical engineer and politician, who was the President Hassan Rouhani's chief adviser from 2013 to 2018. He was the CEO of Iran's Construction Engineering Organization from 2014 to 2017. He was also the Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics and Minister of Roads and Transportation in the government headed by President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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34. Foad Mostafa Soltani
1948-1979 (aged 31)
politician
Foad Mostafa Soltani was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Organisation of the Toilers of Kurdistan, popularly known as Komala.
35. Hassan Shariatmadari
1947-. (aged 79)
Islamic jurist
politician
journalist
Hassan Shariatmadari is an Iranian politician, opposition leader, and the Secretary General of the Iran Transition Council. He is the founder of the United Republicans of Iran (URI) and a proponent of the Free Elections Movement in Iran.
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36. Masoud Nili
1955-. (aged 71)
economist
Masoud Nili is an Iranian academic and economist. He was an economic advisor to President Hassan Rouhani from 2013 to 2017, and was his economical aide from 2017 to 2018.
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37. Mohammad Ali Afshani
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Mohammad-Ali Afshani is an Iranian politician who was the mayor of Tehran from May to November 2018. Afshani was elected Mayor by the Islamic City Council of Tehran on 13 May 2018, with 19 out of 21 votes in favor, succeeding the interim mayor Samiollah Hosseini Makarem on 16 May. He was previously the governor of Fars province from 17...
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38. Morteza Alviri
1948-. (aged 78)
diplomat
politician
Morteza Alviri is an Iranian politician who served as Mayor of Tehran from 1999 to 2001.
39. Mohammad Eslami
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Mohammad Eslami is the vice president and head of the Atomic Energy Organization in the government of President Raisi and was the Minister of Roads and Urban development and the Governor of Mazandaran province in the government of Hassan Rouhani.
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40. Reza Amirkhani
1973-. (aged 53)
writer
essayist
novelist
teacher
Reza Amirkhani is a contemporary Iranian novelist.
41. Ramin Mehmanparast
1958-. (aged 68)
diplomat
politician
Ramin Mehmanparast is an Iranian diplomat, the former spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry and the former ambassador to Poland and Lithuania. He was the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the head of the "Center for Public Diplomacy & Media" and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 31 October 2009 until his resignation on 11 May 2013....
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42. Kamal Sarabandi
1956-. (aged 70)
essayist
scientist
writer
Kamal Sarabandi is an Iranian scientist and the Fawwaz T. Ulaby Distinguished University Professor of EECS and the Rufus S. Teesdale endowed Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he teaches and conducts research on the science and technology of microwave and millimeter wave radar remote sensing, wireless technology, electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering, metamaterials, antenna miniaturization, and...
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43. Mohammad Ali Najafi
1952-. (aged 74)
mathematician
politician
Mohammad-Ali Najafi is an Iranian mathematician and reformist politician who was the Mayor of Tehran, serving in the post for eight months, until April 2018. He held cabinet portfolios during the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. He is also a retired professor of mathematics at Sharif University of Technology.
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44. Mohsen Sazegara
1955-. (aged 71)
journalist
politician
Mohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. He was the founder of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He held several offices in the government of Mir Hossein Mousavi. He applied to become a candidate for President of Iran in the 2001 election but was declined.
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45. Majid Sharif Vaghefi
1949-1975 (aged 26)
partisan
Majid Sharif-Vaghefi was an Iranian dissident political figure and leading member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) who was assassinated in an internal purge staged by the MEK Marxist faction. One of the three members of the MEK's central committee from 1972 to 1975, he was considered the leader of the group's Islamist faction that refused to accept Marxism.
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46. Mohammad-Javad Larijani
1951-. (aged 75)
historian
politician
Mohammad-Javad Ardeshir Larijani is an Iranian principlist politician and former diplomat. He is currently a top adviser to the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in foreign affairs and secretary of High Council for Human rights, Judiciary of Islamic Republic of Iran.
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47. Mehrdad Bazrpash
1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Mehrdad Bazrpash is an Iranian principlist politician, and the former Minister of Roads and Urban Development from 2022 to 2024. He was also the President of the Supreme Audit Court from 2020 to 2022.
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48. Sorena Sattari
1972-. (aged 54)
politician
docent
Sorena Sattari is an Iranian scientist and inventor. He was the vice president of science and technology, under President Hassan Rouhani and Ebrahim Raisi from 2013 to 2022.
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49. Adel Ferdosipour
1974-. (aged 52)
television presenter
journalist
presenter
translator
film producer
Adel Ferdosipour is an Iranian journalist, football commentator, translator, university professor, and television show host and producer. He was the host and producer of the popular TV show Navad. He is a producer of the popular TV show Football 120 and supervisor of Football 360.
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50. Eshaq Jahangiri
1957-. (aged 69)
engineer
politician
Eshaq Jahangiri Kouhshahi is an Iranian politician who served as the sixth first vice president from 2013 until 2021 in Hassan Rouhani's government. Jahangiri was the minister of industries and mines from 1997 to 2005 under President Mohammad Khatami. Before that, he was the governor of Isfahan Province. He was also a member of Parliament for two terms.
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51. Rostam Qasemi
1964-2022 (aged 58)
military personnel
politician
Rostam Ghasemi was an Iranian military officer and conservative politician who was the Minister of Roads and Urban Development from 25 August 2021 to 22 November 2022. He was Minister of Petroleum from 3 August 2011 to 15 August 2013.
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52. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan
1979-2012 (aged 33)
chemist
inventor
physicist
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was an Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated in 2012. He was also deputy of commerce at the Natanz nuclear power plant.
53. Ashraf Rabiei
1952-1982 (aged 30)
partisan
Ashraf Rabiei was an Iranian guerrilla and member of the People's Mojahedin of Iran (MEK).
54. Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani
1969-. (aged 57)
entrepreneur
politician
Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian businessman and the fourth child of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of Iran. He is known as an Iranian "Aghazadeh".
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55. Maryam Mirzakhani
1977-2017 (aged 40)
university teacher
mathematician
topologist
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, becoming the first woman to win the prize, as well as the first Iranian. The award...
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56. Maryam Rajavi
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Maryam Rajavi is an Iranian dissident politician and the leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), an organization advocating the overthrow of the Iranian government, and president-elect of its National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). She is married to Massoud Rajavi, who is the co-leader of MEK.
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57. Ali Larijani
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
philosopher
Ali Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who serves as Secretary of Supreme National Security Council since 2025. He served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020. He has been a member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 2020, having previously served from 1997 to...
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58. Fazel Larijani
1953-. (aged 73)
physicist
politician
Fazel Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician and academic. He is best known in Iran for his core involvement in the corruption allegations publicly announced by then president in the Majlis.
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59. Parviz Fattah
1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Parviz Fattah Gharabaghi is an Iranian conservative politician and former member of the Revolutionary Guard. He has been head of the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order since 2023.
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60. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam
1959-2011 (aged 52)
military personnel
Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam was an Iranian military officer in the IRGC Aerospace Forces and designer of Iran's ballistic missile project. He was the chief of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He founded Iran's long-range missile program and sought the expertise and blueprint designs from North Korea in order to help develop Iran's missile technology....
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61. Ali Daei
1969-. (aged 57)
association football coach
businessperson
entrepreneur
association football player
Ali Daei is an Iranian football manager and former professional footballer. A striker, he was the captain of the Iranian national team between 2000 and 2006. He played in the German Bundesliga for Arminia Bielefeld, Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin. He is regarded as one of the greatest Iranian footballers of all time as well as one of the greatest...
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62. Ramin Golestanian
1971-. (aged 55)
physicist
Ramin Golestanian is a professor at the Department of Physics and the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at Oxford University. He is a fellow of St Cross College and is affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Soft and Biological Matter. In 2014 he was awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize for his "pioneering contributions to the field of...
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63. Ali Khatir
sporting director
Ali Ahmadi Khatir is a sports manager from Iran who is currently the chief executive officer of F.C. Nassaji Mazandaran. He was elected as the acting CEO of Esteghlal F.C. on July 17, 1402, and was dismissed from the position of CEO on May 12, 1403. Also, in 1401, he was the vice-chairman of Tractor S.C. board of directors and...
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64. Yasaman Farzan
1977-. (aged 49)
mathematician
researcher
physicist
university teacher
Yasaman Farzan is an Iranian researcher. She is a faculty member of Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences.