2017 – Harvard University Department of the Classics, Postdoctoral Research Associate
2017-18 Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
2015-2017 Harvard University AKPIA Department of History of Art and Architecture
Postdoctoral Associate: Aga Khan Program
2011-2015 Harvard University AKPIA Department of History of Art and Architecture
Postdoctoral Fellow: Aga Khan Program
2010-2012 Harvard University: Summer School
Lecturer: “The Age of Rūmī” (NELC S-180: 2012)
Lecturer: “Windows into Early Science” (HSCI S-105: 2010-11)
2008-2011 Harvard University Center for Middle-Eastern Studies,
Visiting Fellow
2007-2008 Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Lecturer (NEC 193): “From Baghdad to Isfahan: Classical Science in Persian Lands (Fall ‘07)
2007-2008 Harvard University Freshman Seminar Program: Lecturer (FS 48q: “Historical Dialogues from the Near East: Case Studies in Early Science” (Spring ‘08)
Harvard University Extension School Lecturer (HSCI E-103: Fall ’06, ’07, ’09)
2006-2010 “Science in the Islamic Middle Ages”
Harvard University Department of the Classics
2006-2007 Research Associate: History of Mechanics (Fall ’06)
(Project: Research and Publication, funded by Loeb Foundation)
2005-2006 Lecturer (Classics 192: Fall ’05): “From Alexandria to Baghdad”: Classical Sciences in Islamic Lands
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Society, MIT, Cambridge MA
2005-2006 Resident Affiliate: History of Optics Project (Spring) (Early Arabic Optics, funded by the National Science Foundation)
2004-2005 Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (Visiting Scholar)
2004-2005 Harvard University Extension School
Lecturer (HSCI E-103: Fall ’04) “Science in the Islamic Middle Ages”
2003, 2004 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany: Visiting Scholar (June-July)
2003, 2004 Harvard University Department of the Classics,
Lecturer (Classics 192: Fall ’03) “From Alexandria to Baghdad”: Classical Sciences in Islamic Lands
2001-2004 Harvard University Department of the Classics
Research Associate: The Archimedes Project (Realizing the Vision of a Digital Library for the Long-Term History of Mechanics) NSF Funded Collaborative Project (Greco-Arabic Transmission)
2003-2004 Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Senior Thesis Advisor (99r: Fall ’03)
2001-2002 Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Society, MIT, Cambridge MA
Senior Resident Research Fellow: The Alexandrian Optical Tradition in Arabic and the “IOTA” Project
2000-2004 Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), Cambridge MA
Project: Classical Library of Islam (Arabic and Persian)
1999-2000 Brown University: Dept. of the History of Mathematics
Project: The Minassian Collection at John Hay Library (Rare Books and Special Collections).
1998-1999 Brandeis University Dept. of Near Eastern Judaic Studies
Fall ‘98: Lecturer “Islam: Civilization and Institutions” (IMES 104a)
“Explorations in Islamic Literature” (NEJS 128a)
1997-1999 Harvard University Center for Middle-Eastern Studies,
1998-1999 Visiting Scholar (Project: Sources for Islamic Science Studies)
1997-1998 Research Fellow (Project: Early Arabic optics)
1996-1997 Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Society, MIT, Cambridge MA
Resident Research Fellow: History of Premodern Optics
1985-1996 Harvard University: Department of the History of Science
1995-1996 Teaching Assistant/Instructor: The Occult Sciences
1993-1995 Post-Doctoral Fellow: Department of History of Science
1985-1993 Teaching Fellow: Sophomore, Junior and Senior Tutorials
1993-1995 Academy of Philosophy, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
1994-1995 Resident Research Faculty: History and Philosophy of Science
Lecturer: History of Pre-modern Science
1993-1994 Editor: History of Science Division of the Journal Farhang(Culture)