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  I was born on 2 December 1982 in Tehran, the capital and largest city of Iran, into an Armenian family. Armenians have lived in Iran since ancient times. The interaction between these two peoples has been so deep and historically complex that it has created a unique cultural identity: the Iranian Armenian. I am very much a product of this identity. My early education was at Saint Mary Institute, an Armenian school in Tehran, where I first discovered that I loved both mathematics and Armenian literature. When I moved from Saint Mary Institute to Haddad Adel High School, I realized that, above all, I loved the stars. In 2001, I entered the Department of Physics at Sharif University of Technology. In a sense, I began my life in physics with the beginning of the 21st century. I completed my B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. at Sharif. Those were wonderful years during which I greatly enjoyed learning and socializing with some of the most eager minds in the country. I was very fortunate at Sharif, because it was there that I began working in cosmology, under the supervision of Sohrab. Alongside my scientific studies, I read widely—world literature, Western philosophy, world history, and the history of art—and, most importantly, I began to think more deeply. I also started writing poems and short stories in Armenian, and I wrote literary articles on contemporary world literature for an Armenian biweekly. At the same time, I was active in the cultural section of the Ararat Club, enjoying social life and its rich experiences. Academically, I had a second great opportunity when I worked with Niayesh in Waterloo, Canada, which made me even more enthusiastic about cosmology. A third important opportunity came from IPM, where I was a postdoctoral fellow from 2012 to 2014. This period also gave me the chance to carry out telescope observations in 2011, on the sky above La Palma, and to compare what we see with what we calculate. During this time, I greatly enjoyed scientific collaboration with colleagues at IPM and Sharif, and I began collaborations with Hassan at IPM and Roya at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), learning a great deal from them. In September 2014, I joined the Department of Physics at Sharif University of Technology as an Assistant Professor. Eleven years later, I became a full Professor of Physics in the same department—an honour and one of the great joys of my life.