Mohammad-Javad Larijani

Mohammad Javad Larijani, while visiting Sharif University of Technology in 2004

Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani (Persian: محمد جواد اردشیر لاریجانی) is an Iranian politician and mathematician.^{[citation needed]} He is currently the Director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in Tehran. Previously, he has been a Majlis representative and the director of Majlis Research Center, and a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.

While not wearing the Islamic clerics uniform anymore, Larijani, raised in a religious family, graduated from a hawza before starting his higher education at Electrical Engineering in Sharif University of Technology, wearing the uniform for the full four years. He later continued his studies outside Iran, starting a Ph.D. program in mathematics at University of California, Berkeley under supervision of mathematical logician Robert Vaught;^{[citation needed]} but in 1979 he returned to Iran before the completion of his dissertation.^{[citation needed]}

Mohammad Javad Larijani is the son of Ayatollah Hashem Amoli and a brother of Ali Larijani, the secretary of the High Council of National Security, and Sadegh Larijani, a cleric member of the Guardian Council. Larijani is a cousin of Ahmad Tavakkoli, who is the current director of Majlis Research Center.