Farhad's main interest is to understand the physical processes that take place in the nucleus of our galaxy, the nature of supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds, and star formation occurring in HII regions. The observation, analysis, and interpretation of the data is taken with radio telescopes and to a lesser extent with infrared, X-ray and optical telescopes.

The Galactic Center:

The nucleus of our Galaxy is considered to be rich and complex in its phenomenology. The activities occurring there are the extreme ends of activities found in nuclei of active galaxies and the disk of the Galaxy. I have worked on many different aspects of the unique sources such as the massive black hole Sgr A* at the dynamical center of the Galaxy. Recently, I have concentrated on the X-ray study of the colliding winds in massive stellar clusters, the origin of X-ray gas in the nucleus of the Galaxy as well as the origin of magnetized radio filaments found within the inner few hundred light years of the Galaxy. A recent review of what is happening at the center of the Galaxy can be found in Science magazine .

Supernova Remnant Masers:

The 1720-MHz transition of OH molecule has recently been recognized as the source of an important class of masers (i.e., microwave lasers), the so-called ``Supernova Masers''. These masers are produced when the expanding supernova remnants interact with molecular clouds. The interaction drives a shock wave into the molecular cloud, compressing and heating the gas, which cools by emitting in a variety of molecular and atomic transitions at infrared and millimeter wavelengths. A recent review of OH masers in the Galaxy can be found in Science magazine.

Star Formation:

Molecular condensations associated with protostellar sources are found within evolved HII regions. This suggests that a new generation of massive star formation has been induced by the expansion of the HII regions. My interest is to study the region where the radiation field from bright stars and the protostellar jets interact with each other.