About Nima Arkani-Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed (Persian: نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics. Arkani-Hamed is a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is also director of the Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation. He is also director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in Beijing, China. == Early life == Nima Arkani-Hamed was born on April 5, 1972, in Houston, Texas, to Jafargholi "Jafar" Arkani-Hamed and Hamideh Alasti, both physicists from Iran. His father, a native of Tabriz, worked for the NASA Apollo program in the 1970s, and later taught earth and planetary sciences at McGill University in Montreal. Arkani-Hamed spent his early childhood in the United States. In 1979, following the Iranian Revolution, he and his family returned to Iran after the new government claimed that greater freedom of expression and new opportunities would be available. However, the start of the Islamic Cultural Revolution in 1980 led to the forceful closures of universities across Iran. Arkani-Hamed's father, Jafar, who at the time was chairman of the physics department at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, wrote a petition with faculty, denouncing the closures. Arkani-Hamed's father and his colleagues were subsequently marked for arrest by the Islamic regime officials.
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