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Mahdavi lives as a theoretical physicist in Italy. He was born in 1947 at Arak in Central Iran. He spent his childhood in the small town of Arak, where his father was a grand teacher in Philosophy. At nineteen, he finished high school and moved to Tehran for higher education. He received his B.Sc. in physics and his B.Sc. in pedagogy and educational sciences from University of Tehran. In 1977, after finishing M.Sc. courses in Physics, the Iranian Government awarded him a scholarship to Imperial College of London University where he met Professor Abdus Salam. There, Mahdavi studied mathematics and physics, and was then taken on as a research student in theoretical physics by Professor Abdus Salam. Mahdavi began work on one of the outstanding problems of that period, and soon succeeded in publishing a paper in the phenomenology of electro-weak interactions. He then went with Professor Abdus Salam to spend a period at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
London, ICTP and Italy
In 1981, Mahdavi returned briefly to London for submitting his Ph.D. thesis “ Contribution to Elementary Particle Physics” at Imperial College of London University. In 1982 Dr. Mahdavi returned to ICTP, where he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in nuclear forces at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of United Nations Organization still with Professor Abdus Salam who now was a Nobel Laureate. He then remained a researcher at ICTP and collaborated with Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS). During this period Dr. Mahdavi was offered different positions in Iran both by the Iranian Government and private sectors. But he found it impossible to accept the invitations due to an autoimmune disease that later led him to a very grave renal insufficiency. He could survive for some five years only with the constant effort and encouragement of his wife until November 1990 when he managed to recover from sickness with the help of Professor Abdus Salam and the devotion of his youngest brother. In 1991 he restarted a quite normal life and shifted his scientific activities from theoretical physics and mathematics to applied quantum physics in modern technologies. Since then Dr. Mahdavi has contributed to different industrial research and development projects in electronics and opto-electronic systems which have helped him to maintain contacts with front-line research. His findings have applications in various technologies, in particular, surface mount technology (SMT) and electronics manufacturing industries. |
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