Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan (Persian: مصطفی احمدی روشن; 8 September 1979 in Hamadan – 11 January 2012 in Tehran)[1][2] was an Iranian nuclear scientist[3][4] who was assassinated[5][6] in 2012.

[8]Ahmadi Roshan (also known as "Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan" after the assassination, denoting his status as a martyr)[9][10] was born on 8 September 1979[2] in the village of Sangestan in Hamedan province, and grew up in a poor family.

[1] He was among the students of Aziz Khoshvaght (who was known as an Islamic moralist),[1] studied polymer engineering at the Sharif University of Technology, and had published several ISI articles in English and Persian[7] by the time he was 32 years old.

[1][11] Ahmadi Roshan was married to Fatemeh Boluri-Kashani,[12] who graduated with a master's degree in chemistry from Sharif University.

[15] The last of several assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists (following Masoud Alimohammadi, Majid Shahriari, and Darioush Rezaeinejad),[16] Ahmadi Roshan was killed on 11 January 2012 by a motorbike bomb at 8:30am[4][17] in the vicinity of Seyyed Khandan[18] in Tehran.