He holds a PhD from Yale University on the subject of ‘Science and Society in Medieval Islam: Nasir al-Din Tusi and the Politics of Patronage’, and his research interests focus on Islamic Iran and Persianate cultures, the sciences in Islamic traditions, and classical Arabic and Persian historiography. He has contributed entries to the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. Professor Hadi Jorati has been a Fellow of the Shīʿah Institute since January 2016.