Mahyat Shafapour Tehrany facts for kids

Mahyat Shafapour Tehrany was born on July 29, 1985, in Tehran, Iran. She is a geomatic engineer. This means she uses technology to collect and understand information about the Earth. She specializes in GIS, which helps her study natural hazards. She also works with analyzing lots of information, called data analysis.

Education and Early Career

Mahyat Shafapour Tehrany studied environmental engineering. In 2008, she earned her first degree, a Bachelor of Science (B.S.). She got this degree from the Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University.

She then continued her studies in Malaysia. In 2013, she earned a Master of Science (M.S.) degree. This was in remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS). She completed this at the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She then earned her Ph.D. in GIS and geomatic engineering from UPM in 2015. A Ph.D. is the highest university degree.

Research and Specializations

After her Ph.D., Mahyat Tehrany became a postdoctoral fellow at UPM. From late 2015 to early 2016, she researched natural hazards. She used multispectral imagery, which are images taken with different light types.

From 2016 to 2017, she worked at the University of New England. Here, she focused on analyzing GIS data. This involves looking at location-based information.

She continued her research on natural hazards in Australia. From 2017 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the RMIT School of Science. Later, in 2019, she did more postdoctoral research. This was at the Kandilli Observatory at the Boğaziçi University.