Function and Responsibilities:

• Developing the global gravity-based groundwater product
• Data assimilation of observation- and model-based water storage data sets
• Uncertainty assessment of the developed groundwater products (based on GRACE & GRACE-FO satellites)
• Product evaluation and validation with, e.g., in-situ data
• Scientific software development

Research Interests:

• Satellite-based Earth Observation
• Precipitation
  
• Groundwater storage
• Drought Monitoring
• Data Assimilation
• Downscaling and Bias-Adjustment

Career:

• 11.2024 - present           Postdoctoral Researcher at German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), section 4.4 Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany
• 01.2023 - 10.2024          Postdoctoral Researcher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research(UFZ), Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany
• 01.2020 - 12.2022          Postdoctoral Researcher at German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), section 4.4 Hydrology, Potsdam
  
• 05.2015 - 08.2018          Research Assistant at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  
• 08.2018 - 10.2019          Researcher at the Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
• 2017 - 2019                    Lecturer, University of Vienna
• 2010 - 2011                    Research Assistant at Dryland Agricultural Research Sub-Institute, Sararood, Iran
  

Education:

• 2019     PhD in Meteorology at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna
• 2009     Master of Science in Agricultural Engineering, Iran
• 2005     Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering, Iran

Projects:

• Global Gravity-based Groundwater Product (G3P) funded under H2020-EU
  https://www.g3p.eu/

• Destination Earth (DestinE) Climate Digital Twins
  
  

Research Boards and Committees:

• Reviewer and Panelist for NASA ROSES  proposal solicitation
• Reviewer Board of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
• Reviewer Board of Remote Sensing Journal

Awards:

• 2018          Dissertation completion fellowship, awarded by University of Vienna
• 2016          Outstanding paper in 6^th Iranian National Conference on Water Resources Management, University of Kurdistan-Iran; 04/2016
• 2016          Conference travel grant, awarded by University of Vienna,