Dr. Ranjbar earned his PhD in materials science and engineering from Tohoku University in Japan, where his research focused on the atomistic modeling of hydrogen adsorption on carbon-based materials for spintronics and energy storage applications. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Materials Research and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, he delved into the electronic, magnetic, and quantum transport properties of two-dimensional materials, including Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes). His work in this field has resulted in highly-cited publications, including a book chapter on the electronic properties and applications of MXenes from an ab initio calculations perspective.

Since 2019, Dr. Ranjbar has continued his research as a postdoctoral research associate and guest researcher in Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühne's group at the Department of Chemistry at Paderborn, Germany. His focus is on modeling materials properties from first-principles simulations, with a particular emphasis on designing functional materials for energy harvesting, storage, and photocatalytic applications. In September 2022, he joined the the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) by Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti, where he is currently exploring the theory, modeling, and simulation of graphene-based nanosensors.