Habib Moradi

Habib completed his Master’s in Physics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran. His training is in optics and light–matter interaction, and his master’s project focused on optimising different configurations of optical manipulation systems using tailored light. He worked on optical trapping with Cylindrical Vector Beams and Circular Airy Beams, and on rotating optically trapped micro- and nanoparticles. Outside the lab he enjoys cycling and video games.

Habib’s PhD centres on 2D colloidal crystals as model solids. He uses optical microscopy and optical tweezers to perturb the crystals and custom software to track particles and analyse deformation, defects, and order. His work focuses on how these crystals yield—from elastic to plastic behaviour—and how defects form, move, and annihilate, with side projects on binary and quasicrystal structures and defect kinetics.