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Seyed Reza Hosseinzadeh is a professor of Physical Geography, Geomorphology, and Geographic Information Science (GIS) at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He earned a B.A. in Physical Geography (Climatology) from the University of Tehran in 1989, an M.S. in Hydrogeomorphology in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Geomorphology (specializing in Desert Geomorphology) in 1999, also from the University of Tehran. Dr. Hosseinzadeh began his academic career as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 1999. He also conducted sabbatical research in paleoflood hydrology at the Department of Hydrology, University of Arizona, in 2010 and 2014. From 2002 to 2004, he served as the Head of the Department of Geography at Ferdowsi University.
Dr. Hosseinzadeh has authored or co-authored over 250 scientific works, including two books, 120 research articles, 115 abstracts, and 53 technical reports related to projects in Iran. His research interests include natural and technological hazards (such as floods, landslides, desert dust storms, subsidence, debris flows, environmental impacts of mining, and the effects of urbanization), fluvial geomorphology, engineering geomorphology, paleoflood hydrology, geomorphic reclamation, and GIS. As the first full professor in Physical Geography at Ferdowsi University, he is currently supervising numerous M.S. and Ph.D. students in the fields of Physical Geography and Geomorphology.
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Seyed Reza Hosseinzadeh is a professor of Physical Geography, Geomorphology, and Geographic Information Science (GIS) at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He earned a B.A. in Physical Geography (Climatology) from the University of Tehran in 1989, an M.S. in Hydrogeomorphology in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Geomorphology (specializing in Desert Geomorphology) in 1999, also from the University of Tehran. Dr. Hosseinzadeh began his academic career as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 1999. He also conducted sabbatical research in paleoflood hydrology at the Department of Hydrology, University of Arizona, in 2010 and 2014. From 2002 to 2004, he served as the Head of the Department of Geography at Ferdowsi University.
Dr. Hosseinzadeh has authored or co-authored over 250 scientific works, including two books, 120 research articles, 115 abstracts, and 53 technical reports related to projects in Iran. His research interests include natural and technological hazards (such as floods, landslides, desert dust storms, subsidence, debris flows, environmental impacts of mining, and the effects of urbanization), fluvial geomorphology, engineering geomorphology, paleoflood hydrology, geomorphic reclamation, and GIS. As the first full professor in Physical Geography at Ferdowsi University, he is currently supervising numerous M.S. and Ph.D. students in the fields of Physical Geography and Geomorphology.
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Victor R. Baker is Regents’ Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Geosciences, and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona. He received a B.S. in Geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Colorado in 1971. After working as a hydrologist and geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey in New York and Colorado, he was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin from 1971-1981, advancing to the rank of Full Professor. In 1981 he moved to the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, first a Full Professor, and then in 1988 as one of The University of Arizona's first Regents' Professors. From 1996-2004 he was the Department Head of the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona.
Baker has authored or co-authored more than 1000 scientific contributions, including 18 books, 400 research articles and chapters, more than 485 abstracts and short research reports (nearly all of them associated with papers that were presented at professional meetings, conferences, and workshops), 34 extended technical reports; 42 encyclopedia articles; 39 published book reviews; plus guidebook contributions and various other writings, including popular works in science. His research has concerned paleoflood hydrology (a field of study that he defined in the 1970s and 1980s); flood geomorphology; channels, valleys, and geomorphic features on Mars and Venus; catastrophic Pleistocene megaflooding in the northwestern U.S. and central Asia; history/philosophy of Earth and planetary sciences; and the interface of environmental science with public policy. Professor Baker has been President of the Geological Society of America (1998), Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Section on Geology and Geography (1992-93 and 2008-2009), and President of the International Union for Quaternary Research Commission on Global Continental Paleohydrology (1995-99). Among his honors are Foreign Membership in the Polish Academy of Sciences (1994); Honorary Fellowship in the European Union of Geosciences (1999); the David Linton Award of the British Society for Geomorphology (1995); the Distinguished Scientist Award (2002) and Distinguished Career Award (2010), both from The Geological Society of America Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; the Inaugural International Lectureship of the Geological Society of America (2012-2013), a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellowship (1979-1880); an Indo-American Fellowship (1987-1988); and professional society Fellowships respectively in the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Geological Society of America, and the British Society for Geomorphology. His work on megafloods has been featured in multiple television documentaries for PBS, BBC, and the National Geographic, Discovery and History Channels, including the 2005 NOVA production “Mystery of the Megaflood.”
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Dr. Masoud Irannezhad is working as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Water Resources) at the Australian University-Kuwait in Kuwait and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (Water Resources) in Dec 2015. He was a Research Associate at the Portland State University (USA) in 2016-2017 and a Research Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (China) in 2018-2020. Dr. Irannezhad is a contributing author to the AR6, IPCC 2022, WG II, Chapter 4, Water as well as a Young Career Researcher Editorial Board Member of the Hydrology Research journal. His research focuses on atmosphere-climate- & water interactions. Dr. Irannezhad has published 40 peer-reviewed journal papers, which have been cited 952 times. Based on his publication in Science, Dr. Irannezhad is currently doing research on different climate drivers, hydrological implications, and environmental sustainability risks of future snow droughts in Fenno-Scandinavia.
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Morteza Akbari, Associate Professor at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources – Desertification from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources in Gorgan. His research focuses on designing and developing early warning systems for desertification risk, foresight studies, and risk management simulation for desertification in alignment with the United Nations' operational program "Zero Land Degradation (ZNLD) by 2030." His research interests primarily include risk management of desertification and land degradation, land degradation early warning systems, foresight studies in natural resources and the environment, data and satellite image analysis, and GIS.
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Alireza Rashki received his Bachelor's degree in Natural Resources Engineering – Rangeland and Watershed Management from the University of Sistan and Baluchestan in 2000 (1379 in the Persian calendar) and his Master's degree in Natural Resources Engineering – Watershed Management from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources in Gorgan in 2006 (1385 in the Persian calendar). He completed his Ph.D. in Geoinformatics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2012 (1391 in the Persian calendar), under the supervision of Professor Hans Rottenbach and with the consultation of Dimitris Kaskaoutis and Patrick Eriksson, leading African scholars. He also spent a research fellowship at Lanzhou University, China, in 2011 during his doctoral studies. His Ph.D. degree was recognized within Iran as a Doctorate in Natural Resources Engineering (Desertification) based on the needs of his workplace. His dissertation focused on desertification, wind erosion, and dust storms, utilizing Remote Sensing (RS) and GIS applications in southeastern Iran (Sistan region).
Afterward, he continued his postdoctoral studies for a year at the University of Pretoria in the Department of Geology, then returned to Iran to join the faculty of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, where he has been teaching and conducting research ever since. As such, he has several years of experience in university-level teaching and research, particularly in areas such as dust storms, Remote Sensing (RS) and GIS, atmospheric dust, wind erosion and its control, land suitability and potential assessment, desertification and its control, and RS/GIS applications in environmental changes.
Between 2017 and 2019, he was the developer and instructor of an international Master's program in Environmental Management and Modeling (GeoNetC), supported by Erasmus+ (European Commission). He is also experienced in using specialized software, especially those related to RS and GIS, image processing with Google Earth Engine (GEE), R, and UAV (drone) image processing to support academic activities. As a university instructor, he has supervised 5 Ph.D. students and 31 Master's students as a thesis advisor and consultant.
Additionally, between 2000 and 2003, he worked as a desertification expert at the General Directorate of Natural Resources and Watershed Management in Sistan and Baluchestan Province. He also worked as a researcher and faculty member in the same field at the Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Sistan from 2005 to 2009. His research interests focus on dust storms, aeolian sediments, and the application of RS and GIS in environmental changes. Despite having completed his Ph.D. only in 2012, Dr. Rashki has an impressive publication record, with over 40 ISI-indexed articles and an H-index of 21, and his work has been cited over 1400 times internationally, with the citation count rapidly increasing. Many of his papers have been published in high-impact international journals.
In 2006 (1385), he was recognized as the top researcher at the Forest and Rangeland Research Institute of Iran, and in 2019 (1398), he received the award for Outstanding Researcher at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He was selected as a Distinguished Scholar of Ferdowsi University in 2019, 2020, and 2021. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Arid and Desert Zone Management and serves as the Director of Community Engagement and International Relations at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.
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Alireza Karimi is currently engaged in research and teaching at the Department of Soil Science at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He teaches courses on soil genesis and classification, soil micromorphology, soil geomorphology, and clay minerals. Alireza conducts research in the fields of pedology, geomorphology, sedimentology, and geography. His current projects include studying loess deposits in northeastern Iran, determining sedimentary sequences in arid environments of Iran, examining the temporal and spatial variations of dust deposition in northeastern Iran, and investigating soil formation in mafic and ultramafic rocks in dry regions.
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Masoud Mirzaei studied Inorganic Chemistry at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), where is currently working as a distinguished professor. His interdisciplinary research is at the interface of inorganic chemistry and materials science. His works focus on the fundamental science and applications of metal cluster-based complexes and materials such as polyoxometalates (POMs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Their prospective uses include medical, energy, and environmental applications. His laboratory in FUM creates polyoxometalate-based frameworks, by using covalent and non-covalent interactions in creating open framework materials for specific applications like gas storage and separation, drug detection, and catalysis. He has published more than 200 ISI cited papers, including reviews and two books with Elsevier and Royal Society of Chemistry.
He is currently the Chancellor of Khorasan Science and Technology Park (KSTP) whose mission is to help talents flourish and find solutions to real life problems by developing science-based firms. Also, he has been the Chairman of Zeolite and Porous Materials Committee of the Iranian Chemical Society since 2017 and served as the Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Research, a monthly open access journal published by the Iranian Chemical Society. He has received funds and awards for research and leadership from Iran National Science Foundation (INSF), Iran Science Elites Federation (ISEF), and the Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2021 and 2023, Professor Mirzaei was ranked among top 1% International Scientists by ESI (Web of Science). He served as Editorial Board member of Polyhedron.
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