Education
He was awarded a doctoral fellowship in 2007, and currently is a Doctor of Philosophy candidate at University of Bordeaux 1.
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He was awarded a doctoral fellowship in 2007, and currently is a Doctor of Philosophy candidate at University of Bordeaux 1.
His field of research covers Lower Paleolithic of Iran and western Asia and Middle Paleolithic of Iran in general and Zagros region (Iran and Iraq) in particular. His Master of Arts thesis presented a detailed analysis on an Acheulean assemblage discovered on a terrace site called Ganj Par in Sefidrud valley at Gilan in 2003. He is co-director of a joint archaeological project in collaboration with the laboratory “PACEA” Prehistory and Quaternary Geology Institute (National Center for Scientific Research-University of Bordeaux 1), Bordeaux, France in the Central Zagros and Isfahan regions.
He established the Zagros Paleolithic Museum in Kermanshah in collaboration with Kermanshah provincial office of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization in 2008.
The Museum is the first established museum in Iran that devoted to Paleolithic period of Iran. He has been continuously involved in the research, surveys and excavations of Paleolithic sites in Iran which resulted in many discoveries in both Zagros and the Iranian Central Plateau.