Education

• 2006 – 2011: B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, specialization: Horticulture, Azad University of Khorasgan, Esfahan, Iran
• 2013 – 2016: M.Sc. Sustainable International Agriculture, specialization: Tropical agriculture, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen and Universität Kassel
• 2018: Postgraduate studies „International cooperation for sustainable development“ at Centre for Rural Development (SLE), Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• since 2021: Doctoral studies in Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Georg-August-University Göttingen

Professional Experiences

• 11/2015 - 02/2016: Mali: Institut d‘Economie Rurale du Mali and Universität Kassel, UrbanFoodplus project, member of the research team
• 1/2017 – 4/2017: Germany: University of Kassel, Faculty of Organic Agriculture, research assistant
• 6/2018 – 12/2018: Zambia and Germany: GIZ/BEAF, WorldFish Center Regional Office Zambia (CGIAR), SLE Project “Opportunities and challenges for small scale aquaculture in Zambia”, researcher
• 06/2019 - 3/2023: Senior Researcher, Thünen Institute of Forestry
  (until 30.11.2021 Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics),
  Main tasks: support to the project “Landscape Forestry in the Tropic” (LaForeT)
• since 01/2024: Senior Researcher, Thünen Institute of Forestry