Academic Positions
Researcher, Centro de Astrobiología (CAB/CSIC-INTA)
  • Atraccíon de Talento Senior Fellowship
  • European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant PI, "DistantDust"
Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
NASA Hubble fellow, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona ​
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona 

Education
Physics Ph.D., University of California at Riverside, USA
Physics M.S., University of California at Riverside, USA
​Physics B.S., University of Tehran, Iran

Research Experience
  • James Webb Space Telescope MIRI and NIRCam science and instrument teams
  • Graduate Student Researcher, UC Riverside 
    Supervisor: Prof. Naveen Reddy
    Thesis: A Multi-Wavelength Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of Star Formation and Dust in Galaxies in the Early Universe
  • The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey 
  • Undergraduate Student Researcher, Dept. of Physics, University of Tehran Supervisor: Prof. Mohammad Taghi Tavassoly 
    Project: Measurement of Angular Diameters of Extended Light Sources by Moire Technique    ​
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July 2023 - present
2023-2028
​2024-2029​
​2021 - 2023
​2018 - 2021
2017 - 2018
September 2017
September 2012
January 2011
​2017 - Present
2011 - 2017


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2013 - Present
2010 - 2011
Successful Observing Proposals as PI 
PI: Keck, 3 nights, NASA and NOIRLab time allocation (2024-2025)
PI: ALMA Large program ACE (2024.1.00534.L, 134 hours), Cycle 11 (2024-2025)
PI: ALMA (2024.1.01528.S, 31 hours), Cycle 11 (2024-2025)
PI: JWST (PAHSPECS, PID 5279, 52 hours), Cycle 3 (2024-2025)
PI: Keck, 3 nights, NASA and NOIRLab time allocation (2022-2023)
PI: ALMA (2019.1.01142.S, 38 hours), Cycle 7 (2019–20)
PI: Large Binocular Telescope/MODS, 2017b and 2018a (4 nights, Arizona and NOAO time) 
Observing Experience
17.5 nights observing experience with MOSFIRE on Keck I telescope
1 night observing experience with DEIMOS on Keck II telescope 
​4 night observing experience with MODS on LBT telescope 
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Honors & Awards 
  • ​The University of Arizona Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award: link
  • NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship: link
  • Biruni Award, Iranian-American Physicists Network Group
  • ALMA Ambassador, NRAO
  • Robert T. Poe Memorial Scholarship Award, UC Riverside, Physics Dept - presented for outstanding Ph.D. graduate
  • ​Dissertation Year Program Award, UC Riverside
  • ​NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Robert L. Wild Family Scholarship Award, UC Riverside, Physics Dept - presented for outstanding graduate research by 4th year graduate student​
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  • 2021
  • ​2018-2021
  • ​2018
  • ​2018
  • 2017
  • ​​Fall 2016
  • ​2013 - 2016 
  • 2015
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Publications
* See the list of first-author and major contribution papers in Research.
* Complete list of publications:  https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-libraries/JJuulBVqSwy8BBa9iXfDow​

Invited Talks and Colloquia 
  1. [invited talk] PanDust2025 Conference, Tucson, Arizona, USA. November 2025
  2. [invited talk] Peering Through an Opaque ISM Conference, Ferrara, Italy, September 2025
  3. [instructor] 2nd IAA-CSIC Severo Ochoa Advanced School on Galaxy Evolution. Granada, Spain, May 2025
  4. [invited review] First Galaxies conference, Oxford, UK, April 2025
  5. [colloquium] University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, April 2025
  6. [invited talk] Dust Properties and Infrared Observations to the PRIMA Conference, Marseille, France, April 2025
  7. [colloquium]UniGE-EPFL astronomy colloquium, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2024
  8. [invited talk] Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VII: Stars, Gas & Dust in the Universe, Porto, Portugal, April/May 2024
  9. [colloquium] MIT Kavli Institute, Boston, USA, May 2024
  10. [colloquium] Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany, January 2024 (talk recording)
  11. [invited talk] International Astronomical Union Symposium 377: Early Disk-Galaxy Formation from JWST to the Milky Way, Malaysia, February 2023
  12. [seminar] ESO Lunch Talk Series, Germany, February 2022
  13. [colloquium] INAF-OAS Bologna, Bologna, Italy, April 2021
  14. [colloquium] SOFIA Science Center, USA, March 2021
  15. [seminar] Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, University of Crete, Greece, February 2021
  16. [colloquium] Dept. of Astronomy at UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, November 2020
  17. [colloquium] Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics at Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA, September 2020
  18. [colloquium] Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia, July 2020
  19. [seminar] Maunakea Observatories Science Seminar, W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii, June 2020
  20. ALMA/ASPECS team meeting, Ringberg Castle, Germany, November 2019 
  21. [colloquium] Astronomy Dept. at Univ. of Washington, Seattle, Washington, November 2019
  22. Revolutionary Spectroscopy of Today as a Springboard to Webb, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, November 2019
  23. [colloquium] BashFest, Univ. of Texas Austin, Austin, TX, October 2019
  24. IAU Symposium 352, Uncovering early galaxy evolution in the ALMA and JWST era, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, June 2019
  25. IR Science Interest Group at AAS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 2019
  26. Texas A&M Astronomy Seminar Texas A&M, December 2018
  27. [colloquium] NOAO/Steward Observatory joint colloquium, University of Arizona, November 2018
  28. Harvard-CfA Galaxies and Cosmology Seminar Harvard, October 2018
  29. Characterizing Galaxies with Spectroscopy with a view for JWST, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, October 2017
  30. Advances in Galaxy Evolution through a new Generation of Spectroscopic Surveys, MPIA, Ringberg Castle, Germany, June 2017
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Leadership, Service & Outreach
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
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Feb 2022 - present

​March 2023
2021
​2018, 2019, 2020
Summer and Fall 2020
​March 16, 2020
​March 4-8, 2019
​April 10, 2018
​Winter 2017 - Present
​2014 - Present
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Fall 2015 - Spring 2017
2015 - 2017
​2015 - 2017
​2012 - 2015