Ramin Golestanian (born February 26, 1971) received his bachelor's degree from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, and his master's and doctoral degrees from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) in Zanjan. He received his PhD from Mehran Kardar at MIT, followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He held academic positions at the IASBS, the University of Sheffield, and Oxford University, where in 2007 he became a Full Professorascended.....