 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 East.In 2003 he completed an MSc 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 PhD in the field of biological anthropology/human population genetics at the University of Cambridge.He has published various books and papers on his research.