Encieh Erfani
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Encieh Erfani

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Awards
September 2025 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
February 2025 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
September 2021 2021 TWAS Fellowship for Research and Advanced Training
September 2012 IPM (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences) Fellowship
September 2009 BCGS (Bonn-Cologne Graduate School) Scholarship
March 2015 2015 TWAS Fellowship for Research and Advanced Training
September 2016 Junior Associate of the ICTP, Italy
September 2018 TWAS Young Affiliate (TYAN)
December 2022 Fellow, International Science Council
March 2021 Member, Global Young Academy

About me

Encieh Erfani is a researcher currently at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. Previously, she held the position of Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at a university in Iran from 2015 until her resignation in September 2022, in solidarity with the"Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran. Since then, she has been an exiled scholar. Erfani earned her Ph.D. from Bonn University, Germany, in 2012, with a focus on Theoretical Physics/Cosmology. Following her resignation, Dr. Erfani has been a vocal advocate for academic freedom and human rights. In November 2022, she co-founded the International Community of Iranian Academics (ICOIA) to further this cause. She holds affiliations, including being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC), an Advisory Board member of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a TWAS Young Affiliate member, and a member of the Global Young Academy. She was awarded the 2025 AAAS (American Association for Advancement of Science) award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. 

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International Centre for Theoritical Physics (ICTP)

Degrees:

2012
Doctorate     Physics
2008
Master     Physics

Publications resulting from Research
- Tadeo D. Gomez-Aguilar, Encieh Erfani, & Marisol Cruz, Stochastic Gravitational Waves from Primordial Black Hole in Dwarf Galaxies, arXiv: 2509.19462 (Submitted to JCAP)
- Hamed Kameli & Encieh Erfani, Clustering of Primordial Black Holes in Excursion Set Theory, arXiv: 2508.01896 (Submitted to PRD)
- Encieh Erfani, J. C. Hidalgo, T. D. Gomez Aguilar, and L. E. Padilla, Constraints on Primordial Black Holes for nonstandard Cosmologies, JCAP 11 (2024) 005 [arXiv:2308.04642].
- Encieh Erfani, J. C. Hidalgo, and T. D. Gomez Aguilar, Hierarchical Merger of Primordial Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies, JCAP 09(2022)034.
- E. Erfani, H. Kameli, and S. Baghram, PBHs in the Excursion Set Theory, MNRAS 505(2021)1787.
- E. Erfani, Primordial Black Holes and their Formation, Astron.Nachr. 342(2021)1-2, 244-248.
- E. Erfani, Primordial Black Holes and their Formation, IWARA 2020.
- E. Erfani, PBHs Formation from Particle Production during Inflation, JCAP 1604(2016)020.
- E. Erfani, Modulated Inflation Models and Primordial Black Holes, PRD 89(2014)083511.
- A. Maleknejad and E. Erfani, Chromo-Natural Model in Anisotropic Background, JCAP 1403(2014)016.
- E. Erfani, Axiology, PoS Corfu2012 (2013) 062.
- A. Chatzistavrakidis, E. Erfani, H. P. Nilles and I. Zavala, Axiology, JCAP 1209(2012)006.
- M. Drees and E. Erfani, Dark Matter Primordial Black Holes and Inflation Models, arXiv:1205.4012.
- M. Drees and E. Erfani, Formation of PBH in Single Field Inflation Models, JCAP 1201(2012)035.
- M. Drees and E. Erfani, Running–Mass Inflation Model and PBHs, JCAP 1104(2011)005.
- A. Cabo and E. Erfani, Dilaton Stabilization by Massive Fermion, Astrophys.Space Sci. 340(2012)381.
- A. Cabo, M. Roos and E. Erfani, On the Stability of the Dilaton Field, Int.J.Mod.Phys. E20(2011)245.