My father was born a Muslim in India, but is of Persian descent with undefined ties to Jewish ancestors. His father was an Afghan, a Pathan, and his mother Iranian, a devotee of Allah and a teacher of Islam.

My mother was born into a Christian Catholic family based in the Republic of Slovenia, former Yugoslavia. As a school teacher she joined the communist party, but after the death of the youngest son (my brother) found God in eastern wisdom and charity work.

I was born in London, brought up in a mixture of Christian and Muslim tradition, but grew into an agnostic with no religious affiliation. The mother of my child is Christian Orthodox.

World’s five largest religion groups: Christianity 32%, Islam 25%, Unaffiliated 16%, Hinduism 15% and Buddhism 7%, together encompass some 95% of the world’s population. In our family we combine them through birth, everyday experience and a lifetime pursuit of truth, spirituality and meaning of life. In my research I combine fact, faith and reason belonging to science, religion and philosophy, respectively.