Bachelor in English Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 1989. Master of Education in English Education, Azad University, Tehran, 1993. Doctor of Philosophy in Disaster Management, Cranfield University, Swindon, England, 2004.
Senior expert International Institute Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Tehran, since 1990, assistant professor, since 2006. Assistant teacher disaster management Cranfield University, 2001—2005, research associate Resilience Center, 2005—2006. Visiting study fellow Refugee Studies Center Queen Elizabeth House, University Oxford, England, 2000.
Member panel experts Evaluation of United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund's Support to Mine Action Project, 2006. Research consultant Cranfield University, 2006—2007. Presenter in field.
Member of Radix Network, Spider Network, Gender-and-Disaster Network.
