I started to study Physics in 2005 as an under graduate student at Shiraz University, Iran. There is
an old and small observatory in my hometown, Shiraz which helped me a lot
in gaining some experience in Astronomy. Before that I was an amateur
astronomer. My B.S. thesis is about an eclipsing binary system ER
Orionis.
More details can be found here. I graduated in
2009 and recieved the Platinum LExS
scholarship from Leiden
Observatory in the Netherlands to start my Masters study in Astronomy.
Leiden is a small but historical city with great astronomers and lovely
people. It took me two years to get my Master's degree in Astronomy and
finish both of minor and major Master projects. For the major project I worked under the supervision of Dr. Brinchmann on double-peaked emission line galaxies. For more information about my M.S thesis click here. My minor research at Leiden is about a population synthesis study of He-He merger progenitors for Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
and is supervised by Prof. Portegies Zwart . More information regarding that can be found here .
I recently (August 2011) graduated from Leiden University and just started
my Ph.D. at the Institute for
Astrophysics at University of Minnesota. I am working with Dr. Scarlata on the relative escape fraction of ionizing photons from high redshift galaxies. This is too early to talk about my current research. I'll keep you updated later. :-)
