Professional
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Urban planning researcher specializing in GIScience, spatial analysis, and urban analytics. My work focuses on understanding spatial patterns of urban growth, human behavior, and the relationship between people and places through geospatial methods. I have experience applying GIS-based modeling, remote sensing, and spatial statistical techniques to investigate urban transformations and support data-driven planning decisions.
Skills
Geographical Information Systems(GIS)
Arc GIS & Arc GIS pro
Web GIS
CityEngine
PHOTOSHOP
Auto Cad
Sketch UP
MS Office
Spss
Education
M.Sc. in Spatial Planning (ongoing), University of Palermo (UNIPA), Italy /from Sep. 2025
Focus: spatial planning, environmental policy, sustainability, and territorial systems
GPA: 29/30 (107/110)
Master of Urban planning (full scholarship)
Iran University of Science and Technology(IUST)
Faculty of Urban Development & Architecture
GPA: 18.15/20 (4 out of 4) Rank Fourth
Thesis Topic: Land use planning using the smart city component; District 12 of Tehran
Supervisor: Ph.D. Mostafa Behzadfar
Bachelor of Urban planning (full scholarship)
University of Kordestan(UOK)
Faculty of art & Architecture
GPA: 16.67/20 (3.3 out of 4) Rank third
Feasibility study: Urban design of Taleghani Street in Sanandaj with emphasis on morphological and landscape representations
Supervisor: Ph.D. kyomars habibi & Ph.D. Hoshmand Alizadeh
Research & Publication
Kurdish(Native)
Persian(Native)
English(Upper intermediate)
Languages
“The effect of technology on the use of urban symbols in Tehran”
May 2019 Accepted paper in the first international congress of engineering, technology, and innovation, University of Darmstadt, Germany
“Examining the physical resilience of urban tissues against earthquakes (Case study: Region 22 of Tehran)”
February 2018
Accepted paper in the second international congress of contemporary civil engineering, architecture, and urbanism
“The role of urban branding in the development of sustainable tourism (case example: Kohrang city)”
December 2017
Accepted paper in the first national conference on the resilience of courtyard arteries and civil infrastructures
Work
experience
Leading local facilitation and development offices | Naghsh Click Company
July 2019 – March 2021
I was the regional coordinator of the facilitation and community development projects in some Iranian provinces, which is a platform for NGOs and a team that teaches people how to develop their communities. (Khorasan Razavi, Sistan Va Baluchestan, Alborz, etc.)
director of urban planning department |
Satrap Hirkan Sharestan Company
September 2017 –September 2019
Director of Satrap Company’s urban planning department and coordinator of teams in some Iranian cities (Sorkhankalateh, Bastam, Karaj, Tehran, etc.)
Urban Facilitator | Organization of Public Participation
October 2019- June 2020
The purpose of this project was to empower and institutionalize non-governmental organizations and local and non-profit institutions. (Neighborhood of Ararat)
Urban planning expert | Tehran Municipality Renovation Organization/Shahrandish Amaiesh Company
September 2018- June 2019
I worked as an urban planning expert at the local development office of Hesarek in Tehran, and at first, I was involved in getting to know the neighborhood, and after getting to know and analyzing it, a proposal was made to improve the neighborhood's condition.
Skills
Geospatial & Spatial Data Science: Advanced ArcGIS Pro & QGIS, GIS-based Spatial Analysis, Spatial Statistics, Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), Hotspot Analysis, Spatial Modeling, Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection, Spatial Decision Support Systems
.• Urban Analytics & Computational Methods: Urban Growth Simulation, MCE-AHP Spatial Modeling, Logistic Regression, Spatial Pattern Analysis, Space Syntax (Depth map), Data-driven Urban Analysis, Geospatial Visualization and Mapping.
• Human Spatial Behavior & Urban Research: Human Behavioral Pattern Analysis, Spatial Behavior Studies, Public Space Analysis, Socio-Spatial Diagnostics, Urban Resilience, Everyday Geographies.
• Qualitative & Field Research Methods: Semi-Structured Interviews, Ethnographic Fieldwork, Grassroots Participatory Facilitation, Stakeholder Mapping, Discourse Analysis, Document Analysis.