Vahid Nayyeri was born in 1983 in Tehran, Iran. He received his B.Sc. degree from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2006, his M.Sc. degree from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree from IUST in 2013, all in electrical engineering.

From 2007 to 2013, he was a research assistant at IUST and then a visiting scholar at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada. In 2013, he joined the faculty of IUST, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Satellite Technology and the Co-Director of the Antenna and Microwave Research Laboratory. In 2019, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo. He has authored and co-authored one book (in Persian) and over 90 technical papers. His research interests include applied and computational electromagnetics and microwave circuits.

In 2014, Dr. Nayyeri received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the IEEE Iran Section. He was the General Co-Chair of the 1st National Conference on Space Technology and Its Applications held in Tehran, Iran, in 2019. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He was a Co-Guest Editor of Sensors, the special issues on Metamaterials for Near-Field Microwaves Sensing, in 2019, and State-of-the-Art Technologies in Microwave Sensors, in 2020. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwaves Theory Techniques and the IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation and as a Co-Guest Editor of the Sensors, the special issue on State-of-the-Art Technologies in Microwave Sensors. He is also serving the IEEE Iran Section as the Chair of the Membership Development Committee and a Steering Committee Member of the Electromagnetics and Photonics Chapter.