Dr Mohammad Farhadinia

Dr Mohammad Farhadinia gained his BSc and MSc in Environmntal Sciences at the University of Tehran before studying for his PhD in zoology at the University of Oxford. After completing his PhD, he worked as a research fellow at Oxford Martin School, focusing on analytical methods to improve understanding of wider factors affecting biodiversity conservation (largely of megafauna) in west and central Asia considering environmental resources and cross-border conservation, with the goal of leveraging biodiversity conservation in this region of the world. He then received an OPEN fellowship from the University to work on the post-2020 Gobal Biodiversity Framework and how to engage developing countries in fulfilling their biodiversity commitments in partnership with the UNEP's World Conservation Monitoring Center. In 2022, he was appointed lecturer at the University of Kent.

Rewilding and species restoration, conservation geopolitics, movement and population ecology    

• WCON5050: Key Issues in Conservation Science
• WCON5180: Contemporary Conservation Science
• DICE1001: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Conservation
• ANTS3080: Academic and Research Skills

Dr Mohammad Farhadinia is interested in supervising students in any of the four research areas described above.

• Board member and interim president, Society of Conservation Biology Asia
• Member, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and Cat Specialist Group
• Member, British Ecological Society
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Conservation Science
• Member, International Selection Committee, Future for Nature Award