CV

Work/Research Experience 

• Research Assistant at the Waterloo Climate Intervention Strategies Lab (WatCISL) (January 2022 ~ Present) Working on developing a dynamic adaptive policy pathways for direct air capture deployment in Canada. [PIs: Dr. Vanessa Schweizer and Dr. Eric Croiset]

• Climate Data Scientist at Partners for Action (August 2022 ~ Present) working on equity-informed flood risk mapping and communication [PI: Sharmalene Mendis-Millard]

•  Research Associate at the Climate Risk Research Group (January 2023 ~ Present) working on climate risk analysis for Canadian Critical Infrastructures [PIs: Dr. Jason Thistlethwaite and Daniel Henstra]

•  Research Associate at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran (September 2017 – September 2020), focused on developing decision-making tools for water resource allocation and ecosystem restoration in the Urmia region [PI: Dr. Reza Kerachian]

Education

Ph.D. in System Design Engineering
University of Waterloo, Canada
January 2022 – Present

M.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Water Resources Engineering and Management)
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
September 2017 – September 2020

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
September 2012 – August 2017

Skills 

• Decision-making under deep uncertainty (DMDU)

• Integrated assessment modeling (IAM) for climate change mitigation

• Geospatial analysis and spatial data processing

• Climate impact assessment and mapping

• Qualitative and quantitative scenario analysis