Reza Farajidana

Reza Faraji-Dana
Reza Faraji-Dana
	Farajidana in 2013
Minister of Science, Research and Technology
	In office; 27 October 2013 – 20 August 2014
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Jafar Towfighi
Succeeded by	Mohammad-Ali Najafi
Personal details
Born	Reza Faraji-Dana; 27 October 1960; Qom, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Islamic Association of Engineering Facaulty Graduates of University of Tehran[1]
Alma mater	University of Tehran; University of Waterloo
Occupation	Professor
Profession	Electrical Engineer
Cabinet	Rouhani Cabinet
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Engineering Supply
Years of service	1980–1982
Battles/wars	Iran-Iraq War

Reza Faraji-Dana (born 1960 in Qom) is a reformist Iranian politician and the former minister of Science, Research and Technology under President Hassan Rouhani. He served as president of University of Tehran, and as the former president of the Iranian branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[2]

Biography

Reza Farji-Dana was born in 1960 in Qom and received his math diploma from Hakim Nezami high school in 1978. In the same year, he obtained an admission from the Shiraz University in electrical engineering.

He studied electrical engineering at the University of Tehran, and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 1993.[3] He is currently the professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tehran.[4]

Dismissal

Iranian parliament dismissed him as Minister of Science on 20 August 2014. The conservative MPs accused him of permitting students involved in 2009–10 Iranian election protests to continue their education in public universities. He was also accused of appointing senior department heads from people who were involved in mass protests of 2009.[5] Some of the PMs who voted for the dismissal of Farajidana were allegedly benefiting from unlawful scholarships in previous government and the list of those who granted unlawful scholarships has been revealed during the ministration of Farajidana.[6]

gollark: ~~btw I use arch~~

gollark: I mean, I don't actually know what task manager equivalents are available for that because I just check via htop or netdata mostly.

gollark: Oh, good.

gollark: What OS are you on, then, exactly?

gollark: Task Manager in Windows, loads of programs under GNU/Linux, some sort of insanity on Mac OS(X).

References

"List of Legally Registerred Parties in Iran". Khorasan Newspaper. Pars Times. July 30, 2000. p. 4. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
Behnegarsoft.com. "فرجي دانا، اين وزير جنجالي کيست؟". پایگاه خبری الف. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
"Type Approval Antenna Lab at UT".
http://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/users/faraji
"Iran's parliament dismisses Science Minister Faraji-Dana". BBC News.
"استیضاح فرجی‌دانا؛ تاوان افشای بورسیه‌های غیرقانونی؟". خبرآنلاین (in Persian). 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2020-06-14.

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[1] "List of Legally Registerred Parties in Iran". Khorasan Newspaper. Pars Times. July 30, 2000. p. 4. Retrieved 21 August 2015.

[2] Behnegarsoft.com. "فرجي دانا، اين وزير جنجالي کيست؟". پایگاه خبری الف. Retrieved 2020-06-14.

[3] "Type Approval Antenna Lab at UT".

[4] ttp://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/users/faraji

[5] "Iran's parliament dismisses Science Minister Faraji-Dana". BBC News.

[6] "استیضاح فرجی‌دانا؛ تاوان افشای بورسیه‌های غیرقانونی؟". خبرآنلاین (in Persian). 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2020-06-14.