Ashkbiz Danehkar received his PhD in Astrophysics from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia; 2014). He is a Scientist (Astronomy) at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). He had worked as a Research Scientist funded by NASA grants at Eureka Scientific (Oakland, USA; 2022–2025), a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA; 2019–2021), and a Postdoc Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA, Cambridge, USA; 2015–2018). His research interests include active galactic nuclei, starburst galaxies, and ionized nebulae. He has conducted computational simulations, numerical analysis, photoionization and morpho-kinematic modeling.