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Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
About Ramin Golestanian
- Ramin Golestanian (Persian: ????? ??????????) 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 Holweck Prize for his "pioneering contributions to the field of active soft matter, particularly microscopic swimmers and active colloids".
- In 2017 he was awarded the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize.
- Ramin Golestanian is now director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany, heading the department of Living Matter Physics.He grew up in Tehran and graduated from Alborz High School in 1989.
- In the same year, he won a bronze medal at the 20th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) in Poland.
- This was the first time Iran took part in this international competition.
- He obtained his B.Sc.
- from Sharif University of Technology (1993), and his M.Sc.
- (1995) and Ph.D.
- (1998) from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS).
- He has been a Visiting Scholar at MIT, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, Joliot Chair and CNRS Visiting Professor at ESPCI, and Visiting Professor at College de France.
- Before joining Oxford, he held academic positions at IASBS and the University of Sheffield.
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