Ramin Golestanian

Ramin Golestanian (Persian: رامین گلستانیان‎‎) 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 ^[1][2] for his "pioneering contributions to the field of active soft matter, particularly microscopic swimmers and active colloids". The prize was presented to him at a ceremony in Paris on August 27, 2014.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.

References

1. "Ramin Golestanian wins the 2014 Holweck Medal". Retrieved 21 August 2014.
2. "Holweck medal recipients". www.iop.org. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
3. "Holweck Prize is presented to Ramin Golestanian". www.iop.org. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
4. "IPhO Winners" (PDF).