Dynamics of soil inorganic carbon i.e. carbonate minerals and dissolved CO₂ species under various land-uses including urban areas, agroecosystems and marginal lands
The role of soil inorganic carbon in global warming via regulating the concentration of atmospheric CO₂
Dynamics of carbon and nitrogen in the unsaturated zone (from land to the ocean) under various land uses and management
Developing the concept of Anthropedogenesis i.e. soil development by human interventions
Formation mechanisms of pedogenic carbonates and the implications for paleo-environment reconstructions and radiocarbon dating

Curriculum vitae

Professional background

2022 – Today
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Soil Science, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

2021 – 2022
Guest researcher, School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

2017 – 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, University of Göttingen, Germany

2017 – 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems (Prof. Michaela Dippold), University of Göttingen, Germany

2006 – 2010
Lecturer and laboratory assistant, Dept. of Soil Science, University of Tehran, Iran and Dept. of Soil Science, University of Rafsanjan, Iran
Education

03.2023 - 11.2023
Pro Lehre fest 2023 (didactic workshop for teaching development, Leibniz University of Hannover)

15. and 16.03.2023
Prüfen – Lernentwicklungen begleiten und bewerten (didactic workshop for teaching development, Leibniz University of Hannover)

28.02.2023
Neu in der Lehre – Hochschuldidaktische Einführungsveranstaltung (didactic workshop for teaching development, Leibniz University of Hannover)

12.05.2017 PhD degree
Title of PhD thesis: Recrystallization of pedogenic and biogenic carbonates in soil: Environmental controls, modelling and relevance for paleoenvironmental reconstructions and dating
Dept. of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, University of Göttingen, Germany
Name of PhD Supervisor: Prof. Yakov Kuzyakov

01.09.2016 - 31.10.2016
Research visit at Department of Earth & Space Sciences (Prof. Katharine W. Huntington), University of Washington

2014 – 2017
PhD. studies, Dept. of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems (Prof. Yakov Kuzyakov), University of Göttingen, Germany

2013 – 2014
PhD. studies (prior to transfer to Göttingen), Dept. of Soil Science (Prof. Karl Stahr), University of Hohenheim, Germany

2011 – 2012
Visiting student, Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology (Prof. Marian Kazda), University of Ulm, Germany

2003 - 2006
Master of Science (MSc.), Title of MSc. thesis: Study of Fashand-Hashtgerd soils and investigation of formation mechanisms of petrocalcic horizons in theses soils
Department of Soil Science, University of Tehran, Iran
Name of MSc. Supervisor: Prof. Shahla Mahmoudi

1999 - 2003
Bachelor of Science (BSc.), Title of BSc. thesis: Estimation of chloride concentration based on electrical conductivity measurements in some saline soils of Amir-Abad, Damghan, Iran
Department of Agriculture, University of Guilan, Iran
Name of BSc. Supervisor: Prof. Akbar Forghani
Memberships
Reviewer for scientific proposals

US-NSF, USA

AGreenSkills+, France

NWO, The Netherlands

Ad hoc reviewer for journals

Associate editor in “Land Degradation and Development” (since 2018)

Global Change Biology

Geoderma

Catena

Quaternary research

Quaternary international

Science of the Total Environment

Biogeosciences

European Journal of Soil Biology

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Spanish Journal of Soil Science

Biogeochemistry

Memberships in Scientific Societies

German Soil Science Society (DBG)

European Geosciences Union