Education:
- PhD Candidate, Seismology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 2014-Present.
- MSc. Seismology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Northwestern University GPA 3.95/4
- MSc., Exploration Seismology, Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Iran. [Thesis: “Spatial Antialias Filtering in the Slowness-Frequency Domain”, Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran]
- BSc., Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Iran.
Courses & Certifications:
- IRIS USArray Data Processing and Analysis Short Course, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States. August 2016
- CIDER summer school (Solid Earth Dynamics and Climate) University of California at Berkeley, California, United States July 2015
- Introduction to PETREL, Seyed-Ali, Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran. January 2010
- MATLAB Programming for Seismic Students, Dr. A.Roshandel Kahu, Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran. December 2009
Awards and Honors:
- Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union, 2017
Service:
- Organizer of Sloss Graduate Research Symposium, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern
- Correspondent, Professional Chess Magazine 2006 – 2011
- Executive Committee Member, 14th Geophysics Conference Department of geophysics, University of Tehran2010, April 2010
Teaching Experience:
Guest Lecturer:
Earth 110 – Exploration of the Solar System, 2018
Teaching Assistantship:
Teaching assistantship: Earth 110 – Exploration of the Solar System 2019
Grading assistantships: EARTH 351: Forming a Habitable Planet, 2017
Teaching assistantship: Earth 106 – The Ocean, the Atmosphere & Our Climate 2017
Grading assistantships: EARTH 342: Topics in Contemporary Energy and Climate Change, 2016
Teaching assistantship: Earth 101 – Earth Science for the 21st Century 2015
Lab Instructor:
Physics Laboratory 136-1 Waves and Modern Physics (Fall quarter, 2018)
Physics Laboratory 136-3 Waves and Modern Physics (Spring quarter,2018)
Skills & Qualifications:
Programming Skills:
- MATLAB
- FORTRAN
- Python
- UNIX shell scripting
- LATEX
- Pascal (familiar)
- HTML (familiar)
Geophysical Software:
- GMT
- TauP
- SAC
- Petrel
- Vista
Language Skills:
- Farsi – Mother tongue
- English – Fluent
Hobbies & Interests:
- Playing piano
- Playing chess
- Bicycle riding
- Reading books
