Born 1971 in Paris, France,  BSc from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, MSc and PhD from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) in Zanjan. His PhD work was conducted under the remote supervision of Mehran Kardar from MIT, independent postdoctoral research fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has held academic positions at IASBS and the University of Sheffield and risen through the ranks until he became a Full Professor in 2007. Since 2010, he has been Professor at the University of Oxford and since 2018 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and Honorary Professor at the University of Göttingen. He has a broad interest in various aspects of nonequilibrium statistical physics, soft matter, and biological physics. Golestanian is distinguished for his work on active matter, and in particular, for his role in developing microscopic swimmers and active colloids.