- PhD in natural resource management (multi-criteria land use planning/ economic valuation/ ecosystem services) – 2011 Department of Reclamation of Mountainous and Arid lands, University of Tehran, Iran. My thesis was titled “Multi-criteria and multi-objective land use planning considering economic value of ecosystem services and socio-ecological criteria”. Before starting my work at Isfahan University of Technology, I've been working with different institutions and projects: - Project consultant United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2012- 2013 - Visiting researcher Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), April- November 2010 Professorship for Environmental Decisions and Economics - Project officer Various Consultant Engineering Companies, 2001- 2010 - Researcher International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), March- November 2005 - Researcher Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Iran, 2003- 2004