Siavoush Dastmalchi graduated as Doctor of Pharmacy from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). Then he moved to Sydney where he received his PhD from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney in 2002. Since then he has worked as a full academic in the Medicinal Chemistry Department at the School of Pharmacy, TUMS, teaching medicinal chemistry, instrumental drug analysis and bioinformatics to graduate and postgraduate students. He is currently the Director of the Biotechnology Research Centre at TUMS where he leads his research team mainly with interests in molecular modelling, structural biology, and chemo-bioinformatics for their application to drug discovery.