Astrophiz156-Amirnezam Amiri
b'Astrophiz 156 - Amirnezam Amiri - Metallicity and Galaxy Evolution\\nAmirnezam Amiri is a PhD student at the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Florence and a PhD researcher at Italy\\u2019s famous National Institute for Astrophysics and Astronomy (INAF) in Arcetri, Florence, Italy, and the focus of his research is on metallicity measurement in both star-forming and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) galaxies.\\nAmirnezam was awarded the Summer Internship Prize in Tenerife, at the Canary Islands Instituto de Astrof\\xedsica de Canarias. Also, Amirnezam is doing fabulous science outreach. He has translated more than 8 books into the Persian language and he has written over 75 public articles in different popular journals and newspapers.\\n\\nIn this wonderful interview, Amirnizam tells us the breakthroughs by ancient Iranian and Persian astronomers and scientists and about the famous Persian Maragheh Observatory which was first established in 1259 and which became the model for later observatories in the 15th, 16th and 18th centuries at Samarkand, Constantinople and Jaipur.\\n\\nThen Amirnezam walks us through metallicity, emission lines, the nature of ionised gases and their influence on galaxy evolution and the instruments he uses to further his PhD research.\\n\\nJoin us in following Amirnezam\\u2019s fabulous astrophysics journey.'