I'm a Climate Change Analyst at the Northern Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at York University. Before these roles, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the HydroClimEx Lab at the University of Western Ontario (2022-2024) and at the Vadose Lab at York University (2024-2026). My work sits at the intersection of hydrotechnical engineering, climate change adaptation, and risk-based decision-making.

My research focuses on projecting extreme hydroclimatic events under a changing climate and turning large-scale climate model outputs into local, design-ready information through hydrological and hydraulic modeling and machine learning. At NRCan, this currently means building machine learning models that downscale macroclimate temperature products into forest microclimate conditions and quantify how sub-canopy environments buffer temperature extremes across Canada. Much of this work runs on high-performance computing platforms such as Compute Canada, and the goal throughout is to turn this information into practical, climate-resilient guidance for both engineered and natural systems. 

I earned my Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering (2013-2018) from the University of Tehran, the oldest and most prominent Iranian university, ranked 35th globally in Water Resources. My doctoral research looked at nonstationary flood risk in coastal urban areas, with Lower Manhattan, New York City as a case study. During my Ph.D., I spent about a year as a visiting researcher at the University of Utah, USA (2017), which broadened my foundation in hydrology, climate science, and geospatial analysis.

After finishing my doctorate, I took on both research and teaching at once. I worked as a postdoc at the Institute of Water and Environment at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and I taught as an adjunct and part-time assistant professor at three universities in Mashhad: Ferdowsi, Azad, and Toos.

Since then, I've stayed close to applied, policy-relevant work. I've contributed to projects commissioned by government and municipal partners on stormwater management, climate change impacts, and compound flood hazards across Canada. I've led several technical reports, and I enjoy translating scientific findings into guidance that practitioners and decision-makers can put to use directly!