Saifollah Rasouli is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS). He is fascinated by optics both theoretical and experimental aspects – specifically diffraction and Fourier optics, interferometry and moiré technique, nondiffracting beams and singular optics, and thermal lensing. He has also worked on a number of interdisciplinary topics such as fluid dynamics, atmospheric turbulence, meteorology, landslide detection, seismometry, large-scale structures vibration detections, and so on. He has published about 85 papers in highly regarded journals and more than 110 papers in conference proceedings. Dr. Rasouli received the 2009 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award. He is a Senior Member of SPIE. Up to the end of 2015, he was a Regular Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.  He is currently a Senior Associate Member of the Abdus Salam ICTP. He has taken over a number of responsibilities at the IASBS including Social and Cultural Deputy, Acting Deputy Chancellor for Administration and Finance, and Head of Student Affairs. Professor Rasouli is the head of the Elites Foundation of Zanjan Province since Feb. 2020.