Jafar Jahanpanah received the B.sc. degree in Applied physics from Amir Kabir (Tehran Poly Technics) University in 1989, the M.sc. degree in Optics communication in 1992, and the PhD degree in Laser theory in 1995, both from Essex University in UK.
He has achieved as a senior student to gain a scholarship from the Iranian culture and higher education minister to continue his education career at Essex University in 1991. He has begun his PhD research with Prof. Rodney Loudon on the gain, stability, and injection-locking theory of single-mode laser amplifiers from 1992 to 1995. His research is now extended to cover the subjects of noise, gain, stability, and mode-locking in multi--mode lasers, and also the stability conditions of diatomic molecules and Hydrogen-like atoms with the publications in Journals of PRA, OSA, Applied Physics, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Optics Communications, and Molecular Physics.