Prof. Karimi received several awards, such as Ontario’s Early Researcher Award in 2018, Young Researcher of the year in Faculty of Science in 2018 at the University of Ottawa, the University of Ottawa Early Career Researcher of the Year Award 2019, a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA), a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA), a Fellow the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, has been elected as a member The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of Royal Society of Canada in 2020, and the 2020 Herzberg Mdeal from Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). Applications of structured quantum waves (massive and massless particles) in modern science are the main subject of his research team.