Amir undertook Bachelors and Masters degrees in physics in Iran, before moving to The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste in Italy to undertake a Postgraduate Diploma. His research projects formed part of published works in both Metallic Phases of Disordered Graphene Superlattices, and in The Ab Initio Parameterization of All Atom Force Fields for Water. He is currently a Graduate Assistant in IFS, and is undertaking a PhD focusing on the use of computational studies in Biophysics, in particular examining theories of counter-ion condensation in polyelectrolytes and using molecular dynamics to calculate electrophoretic mobility.