Nima’s father is a physicist who openly spoke against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard after the Iranian revolution in 1979. In fear for their lives, his family fled through the Turkish border on horseback. Nima is considered the greatest theoretical particle physicist of his generation. Snatched up by Harvard with a full professorship before he was 30, Nima moved in 2008 to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Despite his youth, he has become a leader in the fields of supersymmetry, extra dimensions and new forces. With many of his ideas poised to be tested at the LHC, Nima has become a controversial figure by questioning experimentalists' traditional methods of analyzing the data.