CV

Appointments

• 2018- present: Associate professor at Department of Planning and Development, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2016- 2018: Assistant professor at Department of Planning and Development, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2015–2016: Senior Scientist at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• 2013–present: An affiliated member of Laboratory for Geocomputation at Ryerson University
• 2013–2015: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• 2012–2013: PostDoc researcher at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• 2011–2012: Research Associate at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2011–2012: Scientific Consultant for UN-SPIDER Project at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria
• 2008–2011: PhD Program in GIS and Geoinformation at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2009: Research Scholar at the Center for Applied GIS, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), USA
• 2004–2007: M.Sc. Studies in Remote Sensing & GIS at Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran, Iran
• 2000–2004: B.Sc. Studies in Agricultural Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Soil Science at University of Tehran, Iran

Education

• PhD, Cartography and Geoinformation, University of Vienna, Austria, 2011 with excellence
• MSc., Remote sensing & Geographic Information System, Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran, Iran, 2007
• BSc., Agricultural engineering, Soil science, University of Tehran , Iran, 2004

Awards and Scholarships

• Postdoctoral fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt
• Research stay abroad grant from University of Vienna
• Springer prize for authoring an outstanding PhD dissertation
• PhD scholarship from Iranian Ministry of Science (awarded but not taken)

Journals Reviewer

• Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, Springer
• International Journal of Digital Earth (IJDE), Taylor & Francis
• Cities, Elsevier
• Earth science informatics, Springer
• Environmental informatics
• Environmental Modeling & Assessment, Springer
• Environmental planning and management, Taylor & Francis
• Geomatics, natural hazards, risks, Taylor & Francis
• International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis
• Environmental Engineering and Management
• Environmental processes, Springer
• Landscape and urban planning, Elsevier
• Land use policy, Elsevier
• Natural hazard, Springer
• Transactions in GIS, Wiley Blackwell
• Modarres Geojournal
• Civil Engineering Infrastructures Journal
• Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Taylor & Francis
• International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research
• Entropy (MDPI), Land (MDPI), ISPRS International Journal of Geo-information (MDPI), Remote Sensing (MDPI)

Editorial Board

• ISPRS International Journal of Geo-information (IJGI)
• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
• Data as editor-in-chief
• Big Earth Data

Workshop Organization / Program Committee

• LINK-VGI: LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms, AGILE 2016 (Tue, 14th June 2016), Helsinki
• VALID-LAND: assessing the fitness of citizens observatories for LAND cover/use mapping & VALIDation purposes; AGILE 2015 (Tue, Jun 9, 2015), Lisbon, Portugal
• 9th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2015) Montpellier – La Grande Motte, France: Quality analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) towards effective use (Sep 29–30, 2015)
• RICH-VGI: enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge. Workshop at the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science – Geographic information Science as an enabler of smarter cities and communities. Jun 9, 2015, Lisboa, Portugal.
• Visual Crowds for Geo- and Environmental Sciences Conference Heidelberg, 09.12.2014
• Geoinformatik 2013, 13.–15.03.2013, University of Heidelberg
• Workshop “Action and Interaction in Volunteered Geographic Information (ACTIVITY)” at AGILE Conference 2013, May 14th 2013 in Leuven, Belgium.

Memberships

• Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg
• AGILE – Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
• Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE)
• Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage (HCCH)
• COST Action-TD1202: Mapping and the citizen sensor
• COST Action-IC1203: European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing

 

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