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Javad N. Farahani received his BSc and MSc from Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST) in Materials Science and Engineering in 2000 and 2002, with specialization on ceramic-matrix composites. He finished his PhD on Experimental Physics in 2006 at the University of Basel and national competence center for research in nanoscale sciences, Switzerland. His PhD was focused on development of new generation of nano-antennas operating at the optical frequencies. This approach, lead to the tunable superemitter concept which was exploited for a new generation of near-field optical microscopes (NOM). He then was appointed at Swiss Federal Laboratories as a srearch scientist in a joint project with FESTO Switzerland Inc. to develop a 3D optical image correlation system for materials characterization. Since early 2008 he joined the EE department of UCLA in the group of Prof. Ozcan as a postdoctoral fellow. He is working in the general field of nano- and bio-photonics where the development of a scanning-free NOM is one of the major goals.