Pedram Khakbaz was born in Arak, Iran. He received his Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Udine, Italy, in 2022 where he studied the electronic transport in devices based on two-dimensional semiconductors. From Sep. 2016 to Sep. 2018, he was with the computational nano-electronics lab and finished his M.Sc. degree in nano and micro-electronics engineering at the University of Tehran, Iran. In June 2022, Pedram joined the Institute for Microelectronics as a postdoctoral researcher and his current research interests include ab initio modeling and quantum transport for the modelling of devices based on 2D semiconductor materials.