I was born in 1977 in Sabzevar, a medium city in the northwest of Iran. In 1999 I made my bachelor in the dpertment of Physics of Isfahan University of technology. My Ph.D. thesis was done in collaboration with Dr. Wanda Andreoni at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon. After finishing my Ph.D in 1991, I spend some time as a postdoctoral research assistant at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich.
From 1992-1995, I was a postdoctoral research assistant in the group of Prof. Michael L. Klein at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA). In 1994, I was awarded an advanced researcher fellowship (Profil 2) from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Before starting my Profile 2-fellowship I spend another year as postdoctoral research assistant in the group of Prof. Michele Parrinello at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany.
In 1996, I moved as Profile 2-fellow to the ETH in Zurich, hosted by the group of Prof. Wilfred F. van Gunsteren.
In 1997, I became Assistant Professor for Computer-Aided Inorganic Chemistry at the ETH Zurich and in July 2002, I moved to the EPFL as an Associate Professor of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry. Since October 2004, I am also Director of the Section of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the Faculty of Basic Sciences at the EPFL.