Irene Shivaei earned her Ph.D. at UC Riverside, advised by Professor Naveen Reddy. Her work is part of the MOSDEF project to use the multi-object near-infrared spectrograph MOSFIRE on the Keck I Telescope to study the high redshift (z~2) Universe. She has focused on determining accurate star formation rates, comparing estimates from H alpha and H beta with those from infrared measurements, and on the behavior of the mid-infrared aromatic bands with metallicity. She will expand this work with JWST, using MIRI GTO data in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field region. Irene is also involved in outreach, for example as a co-founder of the StarYab astrophysical literature website with weekly discussions of recent astronomy research results in Persian.