Aida Torabi

Aida earned her Ph.D. from the University of Houston in 2016 and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Texas A&M University–Central Texas. Prior to starting this position, she served as a Research Scientist III and Lecturer in the Department of Physics at UT Austin. Her research interests include nanomaterials, renewable energy, and physics education, with doctoral research focused on perovskite solar cells. She teaches introductory physics courses for non-science majors and developed the upper-division course Building Scientific Apparatus to provide physics major students with hands-on research and design experience. She also oversees the Physics Lecture Demonstration Laboratory and supports instructional innovation and STEM outreach.