Maziar Ashrafian Bonab

September 20, 1966 (age 24)

Tehran, Central District, Iran

His groundbreaking research uses human deoxyribonucleic acid markers (mainly mtDNA and the Y chromosome markers) to identify the ancestral history of humans/human populations in both anthropological and forensic cases. His main area of research is the population history of the Middle East, specifically Iran. After completing a postgraduate course in Forensic Medicine at the Iranian Legal Medical Organization (1992), he worked as the head of Hormozgan Province Legal medical Centre (Iran) for four years (1992–1996). As well as dealing with many different forensic cases and having done more than 400 autopsies, he taught forensic medicine and medical anthropology to the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes within the Bandar-Abbas University of Medical Sciences and Bandar-Abbas Islamic Azad University. In 2003 he completed an Master of Science degree in Archaeology (2002–2003) at the Department of Biomolecular Sciences. University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and in October 2003 he started a Doctor of Philosophy in the field of biological anthropology/human population genetics at the University of Cambridge. Since 2006 He has been working as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences. University of Portsmouth. . He has published various books and papers on his research. In his current research he is using genetic tools to investigate the maternal and paternal history of the Iranian ethnic groups, and also the emergence of first farmers in the Iranian Plateau (eastern parts of the Fertile Crescent) and the origin of Aryans (Indo-Iranians) and Indo-Aryan race theory.

Maziar Ashrafian Bonab

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Background

Maziar was born in Tehran, Iran (20 September 1966).

Education

Before completing his Doctor of Philosophy in Cambridge, he first qualified as a Medical Doctor from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (1984–1991) and worked as a Medical Practitioner in Iran.

Career

His groundbreaking research uses human deoxyribonucleic acid markers (mainly mtDNA and the Y chromosome markers) to identify the ancestral history of humans/human populations in both anthropological and forensic cases. His main area of research is the population history of the Middle East, specifically Iran. After completing a postgraduate course in Forensic Medicine at the Iranian Legal Medical Organization (1992), he worked as the head of Hormozgan Province Legal medical Centre (Iran) for four years (1992–1996).

As well as dealing with many different forensic cases and having done more than 400 autopsies, he taught forensic medicine and medical anthropology to the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes within the Bandar-Abbas University of Medical Sciences and Bandar-Abbas Islamic Azad University.

In 2003 he completed an Master of Science degree in Archaeology (2002–2003) at the Department of Biomolecular Sciences. University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and in October 2003 he started a Doctor of Philosophy in the field of biological anthropology/human population genetics at the University of Cambridge.

Since 2006 He has been working as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences. University of Portsmouth.

. He has published various books and papers on his research.

In his current research he is using genetic tools to investigate the maternal and paternal history of the Iranian ethnic groups, and also the emergence of first farmers in the Iranian Plateau (eastern parts of the Fertile Crescent) and the origin of Aryans (Indo-Iranians) and Indo-Aryan race theory.

Achievements

At the same time as the founder and head of The National Museum of Medical Sciences History (Iran), he established the first medical museum in the country and the largest one in the Middle E.

Membership

Since 1996 to 2002, he worked as an academic member of the Iranian Archaeological Research Centre at the Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran (ICHO) - and as a forensic anthropologist he participated in seventeen archaeological excavations around Iran.

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