Curriculum Vitae

1999	Study of Physics, Sharif University, Tehran, Iran
2001	Master in Physics, IASBS, Zanjan, Iran
2002	Scientific visitor, RRI, Bangalore, India
2007	Dr. rer. nat. in Theoretical Physics, LMU, München
2008-2012	Postdoctoral Researcher, MPIDS, Göttingen
since 2013	Group leader at MPIDS, Göttingen
	Major Research Interests / Research Projects
	A) Pattern formation in colonies of Dictysotelium discoideum cells: - Flow-driven instabilities - Phase-locked patterns in the presence of external pulses of cAMP - Theoretical modeling and numerical simulations of flow-driven instabilities
	B) Actin-based motility - Computational models for cell motility and cell morphology
	C) Synthetic biology: artificial cilia and cilia-driven motility