Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Mercedeh Khajavikhan is a laser scientist and topological photonics researcher. Originally from Iran, she works in the US as a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California.
Education and career
Khajavikhan was born in Iran, and received a bachelor's degree in 2000 and a master's degree in 2003 in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. She continued her graduate study in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota in the US, receiving her Ph.D. in 2009.After postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego, she became an assistant professor in the University of Central Florida College of Optics & Photonics in 2012. After earning tenure there in 2018, she moved in 2019 to her present position at the University of Southern California, where she also holds a joint appointment in the Physics and Astronomy Department.