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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)
• 2016 Distinguished Assistant Professor at 60th 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 1st 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).
• 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 1st 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 www.researchgate.net/profile/Mehdi_Esfandiari
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