Our Faculty Member Dr. Ali Mohammadi Receives PIFI Research Award

Our faculty member at ITU Eurasia Earth Sciences Institute, Dr. Ali Mohammadi, has been awarded the “Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI)” Research Award by the Academy of Sciences of the People’s Republic of China.

Our faculty member Dr. Ali Mohammadi will continue his work in the People’s Republic of China with his project titled “Witnesses of the missing Late Cretaceous Magmatic Arc in Iranian Azerbaijan”, which has won the research award. Dr. Ali Mohammadi’s research topics include tectonics, provenance analyses, sedimentology, petrology, limnology and surface dynamics. He has 35 scientific articles on Iran, Turkey and Russia, all of which have been published in internationally refereed journals.

PIFI Research Award

The President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) award is an award hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to qualified and senior researchers in all disciplines to conduct research projects on issues of great importance to the future development of their country and region. Candidates for the research award are required to have certain qualifications, such as having conducted independent research for many years, having a well-defined research profile, and having studies published in internationally peer-reviewed journals to prove it.

Dr. Ali Mohammadi, Lecturer

Ali Mohammadi was born in 1979 in Iranian Azerbaijan. He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in the city of Marand. After completing his undergraduate studies at the Department of Geology at Tabriz University and his postgraduate studies at the Department of Geology at Tehran University, Mohammadi worked as a geologist in the Geological Research Department of the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration in Iran between 2004 and 2011. He completed his PhD in Switzerland (ETH Zurich) between 2011-2015 and his postdoctoral research in Switzerland (ETH Zurich) between 2015-2017. Mohammadi worked as a researcher at Tabriz University in 2017-2018 and at the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration in Iran in 2018-2019. As of 2019, he is a faculty member at the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences at Istanbul Technical University.