Farhad Daneshjoo
Iranian academic
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| name = Farhad Daneshjoo | image = Farhad Daneshjoo.jpg | birth_date = | birth_place = Damghan, Iran | death_date = Farhad Daneshjoo () (born 4 March 1955 in Damghan) is an Iranian academic, and the current President of Tarbiat Modares University.
He is the former president of the Azad University, which was elected for this position on 17 January 2012 and removed from his office by the university's central committee on 18 September 2013. He is said to have been a student of PhD in England at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini's Fatwa on Salman Rushdie's death sentence. He was expelled from England as one of the students burning a bookshop selling Rushdie's books. He was president of the Tarbiat Modares University for five years from 2005 to 2010. He is one of the three brothers of Daneshjoo. His elder brother, Kamran Daneshjoo was the Minister of Science in the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Khosro Daneshjoo was a member of City Council of Tehran. His sister, Parisa Daneshjoo is also an academic.
Education
BSc: Civil Engineering, Queen Mary College, London, UK, 1985 MSc: Information System Engineering, South Bank University, London, UK, 1986 PhD: Simulation of Earthquakes, University of Westminster, UK, 1991
References
| title = President of Tarbiat Modares University | years = 2005–2010 2021–present | before = Saeed Semnanian Mohammad Taghi Ahmadi | after = Bijan Ranjbar Incumbent | title = President of Islamic Azad University | years = 2012–2013 | before = Abdollah Jassbi | after = Hamid Mirzadeh
References
- (17 January 2012). "شورای عالی انقلاب فرهنگی ریاست فرهاد دانشجو بر دانشگاه آزاد را تأیید کرد". [[BBC Persian]].
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