I am a seismologist by training. I studied seismology with Emile Okal at Northwestern University, and I am now a research fellow at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), working primarily with Zack Spica and Yihe Huang.

I get excited by learning more about the physics (magic?) behind natural hazards. While like many of my fellow geophysicists I follow the glued-to-my-computer stereotype, I have also done a fair bit of field work: I enjoy the detective story aspect of tsunami field surveys!

Programming Abilities:
FORTRAN, UNIX shell scripting, LATEX (familiar with C, python, MATLAB, and HTML)

Languages:

Fluent in English & Farsi
Fair in Arabic
Familiar with Aramaic, Sumerian and Latin

I spend my spare time:
Studying ancient (preferably dead!) languages.
Watching movies (here is a list of some of the movies I have watched and what I think about them)
Playing around with data visualization techniques.

Favorites:
Movie: L'avventura (1960)
TV Series: Rome (2005-2007), House of Cards (1990), Yes, Minister (1980)
Rock Music: Leonard Cohen, The Doors
Soundtrack: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Literature: Epic of Gilgamesh (~5000 B.C.), The Greek Passion [Christ Re-Crucified] (1948)
Line of Poetry: زمانه قصة تکرار خواب و بیداریست
Type of Wave: T

Currently, I regularly listen to:
Avaz e Sokoot (Tune of Reticence), Ashkan Kamangari & Amirhossein Sam, Avaz e Sokoot, 2015 (Listen)

Currently, I am reading:
Ervand Abrahamian, 2018, A History of Modern Iran, Cambridge University Press
Herodotus, The History of Herodotus, vol 1 & 2, translated by: G. C. Macaulay, Macmillan, 1914.


Coffee! Coffee! Coffee!


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I am playing: