Payam Nayeri received his B.S. in applied physics from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, in 2004, his M.S. in electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, in 2007, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Mississippi, in 2012. In January 2014 he became a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines. His research interests include array and reflect-array antennas, reflector and lens antennas, multi-beam and beam-scanning arrays, microstrip antennas, computational methods, and optimization in electromagnetics, and antenna measurement techniques.Dr Nayeri is a member of IEEE and ACES and has coauthored more than 40 technical journal and conference papers.