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 satellits)
• Product evaluation and validation with, e.g., in-situ data
• Scientific software development

Research Interests:

• Satellite-based Earth Observation
• Precipitation
  
• Groundwater
• Drought Monitoring
• Data Assimilation
• Downscaling

Career:

• 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/
  

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,