احمد شیخی

Brief  Academic Biography

   I was born in Bushehr province, in the south of Iran, on November 11, 1976. I was initially accepted to study medicine at the University of  Tehran in 1995, but after three years, changed my major due to my great interest in physics.  I started my study in physics in 1998 and obtained my BSc degree at Shiraz University in 2002.  I finished my MSc courses in Theoretical Physics at Shiraz University in February 2004. Since I achieved distinction in MSc entrance exam, I was admitted in the PhD program without presenting a MSc thesis. I got my PhD degree in June 2007 at Shiraz University in Cosmology and Gravity under Prof. Nematollah Riazi  supervision.  I promoted to Associate Professor in March 2011 and to full professor in 2016.  Currently, I have two postdoc researchers and 8  PhD students under my supervision.

     Educations  

PhD            Gravity and Cosmology        2004-2007               Shiraz University 

MSc            Theoretical Physics              2002-2004              Shiraz University  

BSc              Physics                              1998-2002                Shiraz University  

Positions   

 2016  Professor and Chair of Astrophysics and Cosmology Group, Shiraz University  

·         2011-2016, Associate Professor  and Chair of Astrophysics and Cosmology Group, Shiraz   

·         2007-2011 Assistant Professor, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerma   

Current  Research Interest:  Cosmology and Dark Energy Models,  Black Holes Physics, Gauge/Gravity Duality, Holographic Superconductors and Related Topics.

Academic member   

·         Editor of  Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, (Science Branch)

 Member of the Academy of Sciences of Iran

Board of the directors of the Astronomical Society of Iran

·         Permanent member of  Center for Excellence in Astronomy and Astrophysics of  Iran

(CEAAI),

·         Non-Resident Researcher of Research Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of Maragha, (RIAAM), Maragha, Iran

·         Permanent member of Iranian Physics society

·         Permanent member of Iranian Astronomy society

  Academic Honors and Awards   

 Distinguished Professor of IRAN in 2021

   Top two percent  top world's scientists since 2019  according to  Stanford University assesment based on Scopus and Elsevier data 

Member of Federation of Best Scientists (Saramadan Federation) of Iran since 2017

Visiting Professor (with scholarship) of Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in 2020

      TWAS 2014 Prize to Young scientist from IRAN

       Khwarizmi International Prize Award in Fundamental Sciences, Feb  2014, which is the most Important and International Scientific Prize which is organized by the president of Iran.

     Distinguished Referee of European Physics Journal C (EPJC)  in 2013

       Distinguished Researcher in Shiraz University, 2012- 2019

        Distinguished Researcher in Fars Province, 2019 and 2014

    Distinguished Researcher in Kerman University and Kerman Province, 2008- 2011

Thesis Supervisor/Advisor:  30 MSc   Thesis   and   14  PhD Thesis

 :List of publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9D5mawgAAAAJ&hl=en