CURRICULUM VITAE

Mehdi Esfandiari

First Name: Mehdi

Last name: Esfandiari  

Tel. (office): +98 61 33330010-20   Ext. 3106

Fax (office): +98 61 33330079

Email: esfandiari (AT) scu.ac.ir

Address: Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz (SCU), Ahvaz, Iran.  Postal code: 61357-43311

Education:   

B.S.: In Plant Protection, 1998-2002.

M.Sc.: In Agricultural Entomology, 2002-2004.

Ph.D: In Systematic Entomology, 2004-2009. Shahid Chamran University (SCU)

Positions:

• Associate Professor, Department of Plant Protection, SCU. (2015 to date)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Protection, SCU. (2009 to 2015)

• Head of Department of Plant Protection, SCU. (2010 to 2012)

• Coordinator of Entomological Society of Iran, Persian Gulf branch, (2015-2017)

• Lecturer, Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, SCU, Ahvaz, Iran (2005 to 2009)

• Supervisor of the library of the agriculture college, SCU (2005 to 2007)

Research experience:

• Systematic study on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) of Southern Iran (Since 2006)

• Biology, Ecology and Biological Control of Scale Insects (Coccoidea): Nepaecoccus viridis, Icerya purchase, Maconellicoccus hirsutus and Phenacoccus solenopsis in Southern Iran (Since 2002)

• Investigations on the fauna of aquatic insects of Karun River, SW Iran (Ongoing project)

• Joining the entomological excursions in Finland (2008) with Prof. Kauri Mikkola

Research Interests:

• Systematics of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera)

• Insect Morphometrics

• Biodiversity of Freshwater and Soil Insects

• Biology, Ecology and Biological Control of Scale Insects (Coccoidea)

Grants/Awards/Honors:

• 2016 Distinguished Assistant Professor at 60^th anniversary celebration of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

• 2011 Distinguished Instructor Award – SCU (selected by students)

• 2010 Travel Grant for attending IX European Congress of Entomology, Hungary, Awarded by SCU

• 2008 Research fellowship to conduct part of PhD research at University of Helsinki-Finland (9 months) - Awarded by Ministry of science, research & technology of Iran

• 2008 Travel Grant for attending XXIII International Congress of Entomology, South Africa Awarded by SCU

• 2008 Travel Grant for attending 1^st Biology conference for Iranian Scholars in Europe, Germany, Awarded by Ministry of science, research & technology of Iran

• 2007 Travel Grant for attending XXVII Nordic-Baltic Congress of Entomology, Sweden Awarded by Ministry of science, research & technology of Iran

• 2006 Travel Grant for attending a geometric morphometrics workshop at METU, Turkey Awarded by Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey

• 2005 Active researcher award - SCU

• 2005-2008 Full PhD Scholarship, Awarded by Ministry of science, research & technology

• 2004 The first rank in PhD entrance exam - Shahid Chamran University

• 2004 Top MSc graduate

Workshop attended:

• Attending a workshop on Geometric Morphometrics at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TURKEY. (Organizer: Prof. Aykut Kence, Instructors: Prof. F.J. Rohlf, State Univ. of New York – Dr. D.C. Adams, Iowa State Univ.- Dr. D.E. Slice; 12-16 June, 2006).

• Attending a course on cladistics (Instructors: Prof Jaakko Hyvönen), University of Helsinki - 2008

• Attending several workshops on Teaching Strategies, Methods & Tools of Research-SCU: 2009-2012

• Attending a workshop on ‘Life Tables: Theory, Data Analysis, and Application’ at the Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran. (Instructor: Prof. Dr. Hsin Chi, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, 17-18 Jan., 2015).

Research visit:

• Visiting the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany – Sept. 2015 

• Research visit at the Finnish Museum of Natural History - Zoological museum (University of Helsinki - Finland), (under supervision of Prof. Dr. Kauri Mikkola) (June 1^st 2008 till February 29th 2009)    

• Research visit at the Hungarian Nature History Museum - Lepidoptera Collection (22 Aug.- 4 Sep. 2010)

• Visiting the Naturhistorische Museum, Vienna, Austria – Sept. 2010 

• Visiting the Evolutionary Biology Centre - Zoological Collection, Uppsala University, Sweden (29 Jul. – 4 Aug. 2007)

Publications and Presentations:

Journal Papers: 40

Presented abstracts: 35 in national and 17 in international conferences

Professional Memberships:

• Entomological Society of Iran (ESI) - Sustaining Member, Since 1998

• Iranian Society of Biology (ISB) - Sustaining Member, Since 2005

• Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL) - Ordinary member, since 2007

• EURO Working Group on the Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine (EWG CBBM) – Member, Since 2006

Teaching Experience (at SCU):

Undergraduate

 • Invertebrate Zoology

 • General & Advanced Entomology

 • Principles of Insect Classification

Graduate

 • Insect Classification

Please visit my website at the following address

http://mehdiesfandiari.ir

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