Farhad completed his Master’s degree in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at the University of Tehran. He defended his Master’s thesis, “Squeezed State Generation by Using Laser-Nonlinear Medium Interaction” In 2019. Farhad began his PhD at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Professor Daniel Oblak in 2020. His PhD project at the Quantum Cloud lab is on using rare-earth ion doped materials in Quantum technology. Farhad enjoys doing research on both theoretical and experimental subjects. His interests include Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Processing. In his free time, he enjoys thinking about the fundamental questions of the universe, playing ping-pong and board games, and listening to music.