Mehdi Lamee

I started to study Physics in 2005 as an under graduate student at Shiraz University, Iran. There is an old and small observatory in my hometown, Shiraz which helped me a lot in gaining some experience in Astronomy. Before that I was an amateur astronomer. My B.S. thesis is about an eclipsing binary system ER Orionis. More details can be found in my homepage. I graduated in 2009 and recieved the Platinum LExS scholarship from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands to start my Masters study in Astronomy. Leiden is a small but historical city with great astronomers and lovely people. It took me two years to get my Master's degree in Astronomy and finish both of minor and major Master projects. For the major project I worked under the supervision of Dr. Brinchmann on double-peaked emission line galaxies. For more information about my M.S thesis click here. My minor research at Leiden is about a population synthesis study of He-He merger progenitors for Long Gamma-Ray Bursts and is supervised by Prof. Portegies Zwart . More information regarding that can be found in my homepage .
I graduated from Leiden University at August 2011 and started my Ph.D. at the Institute for Astrophysics at University of Minnesota. I am working with Dr. Scarlata on the relative escape fraction of ionizing photons from high redshift galaxies. This is too early to talk about my current research. I'll keep you updated later. :-)