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Azita Farashi

  • Position: Research Fellow
  • Areas of expertise: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Resilience Climate Change Impacts on Animals and Ecosystems Ecological Data Integration and Modeling Ecosystem Services and Multi-Functional Landscapes
  • Email: A.Farashi@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: 3.05
  • Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID

Profile

I am a Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds, United Kingdom, where I bring my expertise in ecological modelling and climate-change impact assessment to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of transport, energy, and environmental health. Currently, I am working with Professor Zia Wadud on a pioneering project that develops predictive models.

Concurrently, I serve as Associate Professor in the Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, a position I have held since 2019. I was Assistant Professor 2014–2019. I completed my PhD (GPA 18.44/20, 2010–2014) degrees in Natural Resources Engineering–Environmental Science from the University of Tehran under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Kaboli.

I have authored or co-authored more than 35 ISI-indexed articles in Q1/Q2 journals such as Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal for Nature Conservation, and European Journal of Wildlife Research, and contributed a book chapter on ecological modelling to Springer Nature (2023).

Through sustained collaborations with the University of Oxford, University of Twente, University of Campinas (Brazil), and the Canadian Museum of Nature, I have advanced innovative spatial frameworks for conservation planning. I serve as Subject Editor for Nature Conservation (IF 2.43), Editor-in-Chief of Scientific Reports in Life Sciences, and reviewer for over 30 international journals.