A Physicist Who Fell in Love with Language

I grew up in Iran surrounded by the poetry of Hafez and the epic tales of Ferdowsi — literature was not a subject in my school, it was the air we breathed. At the same time, physics pulled me toward the universe: how things move, how forces act, how something as invisible as a proton can carry so much energy.I pursued physics to the highest levels, eventually specializing in accelerator physics — the science of guiding charged particles through magnetic fields at nearly the speed of light. Today, I work on the commissioning of particle accelerators, using sophisticated methods to correct the trajectory of particle beams.But I never left my Persian roots behind. They followed me to Italy, to the lab, to every conversation I had with friends and partners who couldn’t read Rumi in his own language. And that’s when I decided: I would build the bridge myself.