Tehran: Vahid Karimipour, a professor of physics at Iran's Sharif University of Technology, has been elected as a member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). According to Islamic Republic News Agency, during its latest gathering, TWAS elected 74 new members, including Karimipour. Karimipour has been a pioneer in introducing quantum information science in Iran. His research interests include quantum and statistical field theory, focusing on exactly solved models, matrix product states in spin systems, and quantum field theory. The Iranian professor has an extensive background, having been a researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) from 1988 to 2013 and serving as an ICTP Simons affiliate member from 2015 to 2023. TWAS was established in 1983 upon recommendations by the distinguished physician and Nobel laureate Abdus Salam.