Mehdi Golshani (Persian: مهدی گلشنی, born 1939 in Isfahan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist, academic, scholar, philosopher and distinguished professor at Sharif University of Technology.
He is also member of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame, senior fellow of Academy of Sciences of Iran and a founding fellow of the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics.
The title of his doctoral dissertation is "Electron impact excitation of heavily ionized atoms".
Golshani is the founder and chairman of the Faculty of Philosophy of Science at Sharif University of Technology.
In most of Golshani's works, there is a clear attempt to help revive the scientific spirit in the Muslim world.