S. O. Reza Moheimani  received a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from shiraz University, Iran in 1990. He then moved to Australia and completed a MEngSc and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of New South Wales in 1993 (at UNSW's Kensington Campus, in Sydney) and 1996 (at UNSW's Australian Defence Force Academy Campus in Canberra), respectively. Following completion of his Ph.D. he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia.

In 1997 he took up an academic position at the University of Newcastle, where he is currently a Professor and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He founded, and directs, the Laboratory for Dynamics and Control of Nanosystems, a multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art research facility dedicated to the advancement of nanotechnology through innovations in systems theory and control engineering. From 2003 - 2010 he served as the Associate Director of Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC), an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence. 

His research has ranged across many areas including robust control theory and robust state estimation of uncertain dynamic systems, applications of control and estimation in nanoscale positioning systems for high-speed scanning probe microscopy, smart structures, active control of noise and vibration, mechatronics and applications of control in microlectromechanical systems (MEMS) and in emerging data storage systems, in which he has published over 200 articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings, as well as several books and edited volumes.

He has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Control Engineering Practice and International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems. He has contributed to the organization of and has chaired several international conferences and workshops. He is a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award and the 2009 IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, together with a group of researchers from IBM Zurich Research Labs, where he held several visiting appointments. He is a  Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IFAC and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK).