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Jahangir Vajedsamiei - CV

Personal Data

Dr. Jahangir Vajedsamiei

 

Current position

Fix-term employment (Sep. 30, 2027)

Current institution(s)/site(s), country

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde (IOW), Germany

Identifiers/ORCID

ORCID-ID: 0000-0002-8625-4719

     

 

Qualifications and Career

Stages

Periods and Details

Degree programme

Master of Science in Marine Biology-Marine Animals

Sep 2008 – Sep 2010

Supervisor: Dr. Behrouz Abtahi

Host: Faculty of Science, SBU, Tehran, Iran

Doctorate

Doctor of Natural Science (Dr. rer. nat.)

May 2017 – Mar 2021

Hosts: Experimental Ecology Research Unit, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany & Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

Thesis title: The neglected role of environmental fluctuations as modulator of stress

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Martin Wahl, Dr. Christian Pansch, Prof. Dr. Frank Melzner

Stages of academic/professional

career

 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Apr 2021Oct 2024

Subject: Ecology and evolutionary biology: Baltic benthic systems under extreme events

Host: Experimental Ecology Research Unit, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre, Germany

 

Academic Distinctions

  • Doctoral thesis evaluated with highest distinction in 2021 (summa cum laude)
  • Institute-wide outstanding doctoral thesis award by the Prof. Dr. W. Petersen-Foundation (2022)

 

Activities in the Research System

I taught several modules within the following courses in M.S. program ‘Biological Oceanography’ at Kiel University & GEOMAR:

  • MNF-bioc-202-Advanced Practical Course in Biological Oceanography (5 ECTS, summer semesters 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • MNF-bioc-232-Current Topics in Marine Ecology I-scientific computing and bioinformatics (5 ECTS, summer semesters 2021, 2022)

Instructor in the virtual workshop on the status of Indian ocean coral reefs held by regional education and research Centre on Oceanography for West Asia (2020)

 

Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases

I have supervised Mats Jacobsen (BSc. 2021-22), Laura Hennigs (MSc.; 2020), Niklas Warlo (MSc. 2022-23), Katja Seebas (MSc. 2022-23) and Maral Khosravi (PhD; 2018-2023).

 

Supplementary Career Information

Research assistant (or associated with) National Institute for Oceanography, Tehran, Iran (Sep 2011 – Apr 2017)

Technical Skills:

  • Statistical modeling using frequentist and Bayesian approaches in R and Python
  • Dynamic Energy/Mass Budget (DEB) Modeling
  • Advance SCUBA diver (PADI); Life Saving Certificate (ILS)