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12.18.2011 Guest of the Week: Dr. Muhammad Sahimi Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science NIOC Chair in petroleum engineering University of Southern California (USC) Host: Dr. kamran Abedini

Dr. Muhammad Sahimi is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and holds the NIOC Chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. He is also active in journalism, writing frequently on Iranian politics. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tehran. After briefly working for the National Iranian Oil Company, he received a scholarship from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and travelled to the USA completing his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1984. He then moved to the USC, becoming Chairman of chemical engineering department from 1999-2005.

Since then he has held the NIOC Chair. He has been a visiting professor in Australia and Europe, and a consultant to many industrial corporations. Since 2003, Dr. Sahimi has written many articles on Iran for websites such as Payvand, Antiwar.com and the Huffington Post. He has been a regular columnist for Tehran Bureau since 2008, and has written occasional pieces for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard International Review and The Progressive.