About

Ali Reza Shahvaran, head and shoulders, in front of a window.

I am a PhD student in the Water Resources and Hydrology research group of the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto, where Prof. Mohammed Basheer supervises my research. I began in May 2026.

Before Toronto I completed an MSc in Earth Sciences (Water) at the University of Waterloo, with a thesis on mapping chlorophyll-a in western Lake Ontario from remote sensing imagery. I then worked for two years as a research assistant in the Ecohydrology Research Group there.

By 10 November 2026 I had co-authored 14 journal papers and 10 datasets and completed 101 reviews for 39 journals. I am an expert reviewer of the Seventh Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Working Group II).

Education and positions

  1. 2026–presentPhD, Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
  2. 2024–2026Research Assistant II (Geomatics Technician), Ecohydrology Research Group, University of Waterloo
  3. 2021–2024MSc, Earth Sciences (Water), University of Waterloo
  4. 2018–2021MSc, Civil Engineering (Environmental), Iran University of Science and Technology
  5. 2014–2018BSc, Civil Engineering, Persian Gulf University