After receiving his PhD in Theoretical Physics from IUCAA in 1999, Dr. Ali
Nayeri was appointed as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Physics at
MIT for 2 years and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Center for Theoretical
Physics for an additional year. Since then, he has been a Research Affiliate at
MIT. He was also a Research Scientist and Visiting Professor at the Institute
for Fundamental Theory at University of Florida. He is currently with the
Harvard Physics Department in Cambridge, MA. His fields of research include
Early Universe and Inflation, Brane and String Cosmology, Semi-Classical Theory
of Gravity, and Alternative Cosmologies.
Dr. Nayeri has published numerous papers in various scientific journals in the
US, UK, Netherlands and Russia. He is co-founder and current member of the Board
of Directors of the Iranian Studies Group at MIT, co-founder of Iranian Research
Group at University of Florida and the Principle Investigator of the "Physics of
Chaos and Society" project. Dr. Nayeri has also been working on application of
physics on social sciences and sociology, and has given numerous talks on
popularizing science and on sociology and physics.
