Biruni Award - Biruni Awardees

2025 Biruni awardeeReza Ebadi, PhD student (EG summer 2025) in Theoretical/Experimental Particle Physics (novel precision measurement method for probing new physics) under supervision of Ronald Walsworth at University of Maryland-College Park. BS from Sharif University of Technology in 2019 and MS from University of Maryland in 2023
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2024 Biruni awardeeAlek Bedroya, PhD in May 2023 in Theoretical Physics in Quantum Gravity and String Theory under supervision of Cumrun Vafa at Harvard University. Dual BS from Sharif University of Technology in 2018 and MS from Harvard University in 2020
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2023 Joint Biruni awardeesSara Shabani, PhD in May 2023 in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics in 2-D Quantum Materials under supervision of Abhy Pasupathy at Columbia University. BS from Sharif University of Technology in 2018 - Google ScholarSahand Seifnashri, PhD in 2022 in Theoretical High Energy Physics in Quantum Field Theory under supervision of Zohar Komarghodsky at Stony Brook University. BS from Sharif University of Technology in 2016 - Google ScholarSepehr Ebadi, PhD in Nov 2023 in Experimental Physics in Quantum Simulation and Computation with Neutral Atoms under supervision of Markus Greiner and Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University. BS from University of Toronto in 2017 - Google Scholar

2022 Biruni awardeeKasra Hejazi, PhD in December 2021 in Theoretical Physics in Condensed Matter and Quantum Information under supervision of Leon Balents at University of California, Santa Barbara. BS and MS from Sharif University of Technology in 2013 and 2015
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2021 Biruni awardeeAlireza Seif, PhD in December 2020 in Theoretical Physics in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information under supervision of Mohammad Hafezi at Joint Quantum Institute at University of Maryland. BS from Sharif University of Technology in 2014
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2020 Biruni awardeeMahdi Naghiloo, PhD in May 2020 in Experimental Physics in Quantum Measurement with Superconductor Qubits under supervision of Kater Murch at University of Washington St Louis. BS from University of Zanjan in 2008 and MS from Sharif University of Technology in 2011
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2019 Biruni awardee Hassan Shapourian, PhD in May 2019 in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics of Topological Phase, Entanglement and Quantum Materials under supervision of Shinsei Ryu at The University of Chicago. BS from Sharif University of Technology in 2010
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2018 Biruni awardeeIrene Shivaei, PhD September 2018 in Observational Astronomy in a Multi-Wavelength Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of StarFormation and Dust in Galaxies in the Early Universe under supervision of Naveen Reddy at University of California Riverside. BS from University of Tehran in 2011
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2017 Biruni awardeeCina Aghamohammadi, PhD September 2018 in Quantum Information and Computation and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics under supervision of James P. Crutchfield at University of California Davis. BS from Sharif University of Technology in 2013
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2016 Biruni AwardeeMohammad Mirhosseini, PhD December 2015 in Experimental Optics in Quantum Information with Structured Light under supervision of Robert Boyd at Institute of Optics- University of Rochester. BS from University of Tehran in 2010
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2015 Biruni AwardeeFarzad Mahfouzi, PhD July 2014 in Theoretical Condensed Matter in Spintronics and Strongly Correlated Systems under supervision of Branislav Nikolic at University of Delaware. BS from University of Isfahan in 2003 and MS from Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences-Zanjan in 2005
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2014 Biruni awardeeHamidreza Ramezani, PhD in November 2013 in Theoretical Physics in Non-Hermitian Wave Mechanics under supervision of Tsampikos Kottos at Wesleyan University. BS from Shahed University in 2004 and MS from University of Tehran in 2007
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2013 Biruni awardeeHossein Mousavi, PhD in December 2012 in Theoretical-Experimental Physics in Optical Properties and Collective Modes Of Plasmonic Meta-Surfaces under supervision of Gennadi Shvets at The University of Texas. BS and MS from from Sharif University of Technology in 2004 and 2006
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2012 Biruni awardeeRamis Movassagh, PhD in June 2012 in Mathematical Physics in Quantum Many-body Systems, Quantum and Classical Statistical Physics under supervision of Peter Shor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. BS from Cornel University in 20o4
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