I was born and raised in the historic city of Isfahan, Iran. I obtained my BSc’s degree from Sharif university, Iran in 1999 and my PhD in physics from Brown University, US in 2005, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Perimeter Institute for theoretical physics and a research scientist at University at Buffalo. I am currently a Research Associate professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and a founding faculty in the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics at University of Waterloo, Canada as well as visiting fellow at Perimeter Institute.