Omid Akhavan (G index 139, H index 67, Citations > 19650, Publications 207) received his PhD in Physics from Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in 2003. He was then invited to join the Physics Department of SUT where he is currently the Elite Professor, based on the selection of the National Federation of Scientific Elites (NFSE). His research interests include physics of nanomaterials, Photocatalysts, nanobubbles, graphene and its bioapplications in stem-cell-based tissue engineering, photothermal therapy of cancer, biosensing, and antibacterial nanomaterials. He is a member of the editorial board and honorable reviewer of some international journals. Honors include Award from JCIS for most cited articles in 2008-09, the first national activity on the fabrication/application of graphene in 2007-09 and nanobubbles in 2018, guiding one of the first international studies on potential cyto- and geno-toxicity of graphene in 2010, the first realization of a remote controllable graphene nano-robots in 2016, Highly Cited Res. in 2016, 17, 18 and 20 by Publons, Top-10 Researchers in 2014, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council, and Elite Researchers in 2016, 17, 18, 19 and 21 by NFSE.