Mr. Ali Khonya received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2017 from the University of Tehran in Iran. He took part in a variety of academic and industrial projects at some companies including the Iran Ministry of Energy during his bachelor's degree program. At the University of Tehran's Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department, he also had the role of teaching assistant for a number of courses. After completing this program, he experienced his first experience abroad by joining the master's program in electrical engineering – smart grids at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. Afterward, in 2020, he worked as a research and development engineering intern at the SuperGrid Institute in France to study AC-DC converters for MVDC networks with integrated renewable energy sources.

He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, where he works at the Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP) and Energy Lab 2.0 on modeling the superconducting powertrain of electric aircraft. The goal of this is to model various components in such a superconducting propulsion system. This contains a superconducting fault current limiter, cable, motor, etc. Finally, this study would advance the goal of CO2-emission-free air travel and make a positive impact on the fight against climate change.