Shahriar Afshar

Who is Shahriar Afshar?

Shahriar Sadigh Afshar is an Iranian-American physicist and a multiple award-winning inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. Since July 2004, Afshar has been a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University. His highest academic degree is B.S. He is a member of the high IQ society Mensa International.

Afshar's experiment is an optical experiment, which is claimed to demonstrate a contradiction of the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics. As a result of the controversy surrounding claims made about the experiment, Afshar complained that he has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity. These personal attacks drew a rebuke in an editorial in the New Scientist, which called them "extreme" and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".

More recently Afshar has been concentrating on his commercial interests, as President, CEO and CTO of Immerz Inc, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the consumer electronics games field. His award-winning invention, KOR-fx, is considered to be the next step towards full media immersion, and in his interviews with CNN and Bloomberg TV, it has been called "4D technology", as a follow on to the recent success of 3D entertainment.