She studies disease ecology, specifically by calculating the risk of emerging epidemics. She aims to understand how climate change impacts epidemics, particularly in urban areas.
She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Department of Physics at Sharif University of Technology (SUT), one of the top universities in the Middle East, and holds a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Leipzig University in Germany. After a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden (Germany), she worked as a Principal Investigator (PI) at the Technical Universities of Berlin (TUB) and Dresden (TUD). She has held positions as Assistant Professor in Physics at SUT, as Research Staff Associate at the Quantitative Life Sciences, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy and as a researcher at the Robert Koch Institute in Germany.
She serves as the Co-chair of the Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division (SOE) at the German Physical Society (DPG). Additionally, she is an editor for PLOS ONE and Complexity.
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