Biography

Hamid-Reza Bahari is the Founder and Director of a private innovation center, CIGHTECH, focuses on generating innovative ideas, integrating collaborative team, discovering new talents, commercialization of high-tech products. He has experiences on photonic materials including novel photonic glass/ceramics, nanomaterials, plasmonic and rare-earth doped materials. He has held positions such as guest assistant professor of physics at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Marie Curie Research Fellow at Institute of Materials Research at Leeds University, UK, postdoc at Department of Physics at Middle East Technical University, Turkey, postdoc Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN) at National University of Malaysia (UKM), researcher at Integrated Ligthwave Research Group (ILRG) at University of Malaya. He has awarded PhD (photonic and plasmonic glasses) from Physics department of University Putra Malaysia (UPM), and also MSc and BSc on solid state physics from university of Tehran.

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Research Interest

Novel photonic Glass/Ceramics, Rare Earth and Transition metal doped materials, Photonic/Plasmonic nanostructures, Upconversion Nanoparticles.