Shahram Jalilian was born in Khorramshahr in 1978. He studied history at Yazd University from 1996 to 2000. In 2002, he defended his master's thesis entitled "The Medes Diplomacy" at Shahid Beheshti University. In the same year, he was accepted to the University of Tehran for a doctoral program in the history of ancient Iran, and in 2008 he defended his dissertation entitled "The Problem of Succession in the Sassanid Period". He has been a scholarship holder of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz since 2004.  Dr. Jalilian has been working in the History Department of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of this university since 2008. In 2013, he became an associate professor and in 2018, he was promoted to the rank of professor of ancient Iranian history. His field of study and teaching is the history of ancient Iran, especially the Sassanid period.