CV

Education

Newcastle University, UK                                                                                                             2017

PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry   

• Surfactants and Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) in the Atlantic Ocean surface microlayer and the corresponding underlying waters; implication for air-sea gas exchange

 University of Glasgow, UK                                                                                                         2011

MRes in Marine and Freshwater Ecology and Environmental Management

 Azad University, Tehran, Iran                                                                                                    

MSc in Marine Biology                                                 

• The possibility of biological surfactant production by single-cell algae Chlorella

 Azad University, Tehran, Iran                                                                                                    

BSc in Natural and Environmental Sciences 

 

Work Experience

Newcastle University, UK                                                                                                             2018

• Course leader and demonstrator, outreach programme (Summer School)

• Graduate Teaching Assistant (Postgraduate Demonstrator)

 University of Glasgow, UK                                                                                              2008 - 2013

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

Azad University, Tehran, Iran                                                                                           

• Research Assistant

 

Awards and Honours

• The achievement of our latest research was broadcasted in Guardian, Times of Malta and Herald Scotland (2018); https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/28/invisible-scum-on-sea-cuts-co2-exchange-with-air-by-up-to-50, https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20180528/life-features/scum-hampers-seas-ability-to-suck-carbon-dioxide-out-of-atmosphere.680270,  http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16254338.Layer_of_ocean___39_scum__39__cuts_carbon_uptake_by_50_per_cent__study_shows/
• Best Published Paper (Geophysical Research Letters, 44(6), pp. 2852-2858) by a Research Student Prize, Newcastle University, 2017.
• Award for the best project presentation, Newcastle University, July-2017.
• Best Presentation (Honorary), Postgraduate Research Conference, Newcastle University, 2016.
• Full PhD Scholarship, Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Newcastle University, 2013.
• Associate Member of British Higher Education Academy, UK, 2011.

 

Projects

• The Benguela Upwelling System under Climate Change- Effects of variability in physical forcing on carbon and oxygen budgets (EVAR)- Seasonal fluxes of trace gases and their governing physical and microbial controls
• Radiatively Active Gases from the North Atlantic Region and Climate Change (RAGNARoCC), http://www.greenhouse-gases.org.uk/projects/ragnarocc, 2014-2017.
• Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT), http://www.amt-uk.org/, 2014-2015.

 

Membership

• Challenger Society for Marine Science, UK.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science