- PhD in natural resource management (multi-criteria land use planning/ economic valuation/ ecosystem services) – 2011
Department of Reclamation of Mountainous and Arid lands, University of Tehran, Iran. My thesis was titled “Multi-criteria and multi-objective land use planning considering economic value of ecosystem services and socio-ecological criteria”.
Before starting my work at Isfahan University of Technology, I've been working with different institutions and projects:
- Project consultant
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2012- 2013
- Visiting researcher
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), April- November 2010
Professorship for Environmental Decisions and Economics
- Project officer
Various Consultant Engineering Companies, 2001- 2010
- Researcher
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), March- November 2005
- Researcher
Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Iran, 2003- 2004