Where do you come from?

Isfahan. Irán.

What are your main personal and professional concerns?

My main personal concerns are maintaining a healthy work-life balance, adapting to new environments and ensuring stability and job security.

On the professional side, I am most concerned with pursuing impactful and innovative research that contributes meaningfully to worldwide health challenges, particularly in the field of cancer theranostics.

What does your research consist on?

Nanoimmunotherapy in general. Nano drug/biomolecule delivery to lymphoid organs to regulate immune responses for fighting both primary and metastatic cancer cells indirectly.

What power does science have to transform the world?

Reshaping how we approach health, energy and the environment. Due to the special quantum, plasmonic and surface-to-ratio properties, it has the power of changing and renovating our conventional thinking, sight and strategies to address challenges in different areas by providing novel simplified solutions.

Where do you find inspiration?

In both purposes and people. Statistics about the incidence and mortality of cancers and other lethal diseases and having contact with patients and their families; and professionally, attending international congresses, meeting with pioneers in my field and knowing about their discoveries and efforts inspire me to contribute more actively.

Where do you see yourself in the future?

I see myself as a researcher actively contributing to the development of innovative clinically relevant solutions in cancer treatment and expanding my research and discoveries to other fields like cardiovascular diseases.

Why IMDEA Nanociencia?

Because it is an internationally recognized center that brings interdisciplinary expertise in different aspects of nanoscience together. It offers cutting-edge facilities and collaborative environment. Its string focus on applying nanoscience to health and medicine aligns closely with my goals.