I got my bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Tehran (2005) and my master degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, 2009).My master thesis was about Spatial Inequality in Iran. After my graduation, I started to work in consulting private companies and have been involved in different projects including renewal and regeneration planning for a slum area and planning for the downtown area of the city of Mashhad. In addition, I taught statistics and quantitative methods in urban and regional planning as a university lecturer at Azad University of Mashhad. I also was a teacher assistant in the faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. In 2011 I started a double degree master course (sponsored by European union), in Urban Development and International Cooperation and have completed the first year of study in Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.