B.S:  Metallurgical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 

M.S: Materials Science and Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. 

Ph.D.: Materials Science Department at Northwestern University.  

Post-Doctoral Researcher: in the Physics Department at the University of California Berkeley and National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 

Now: Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University

Email: nua10@psu.edu

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SXF1060AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Research Interest: Studying the structural, electronic and chemical properties of the 2D-materials, complex oxides, meta-lattice materials, carbon-nanothreads with advanced electron microscopy techniques