Academic Background

     Assistant Professor (currently)

Kharazmi University, Faculty of Psychology and Education; Derpatment of Library and Information Studies, Since September 2008.

     PhD in Information Science

University of London; University College London (UCL); Department of Information Studies (DIS) (previously SLAIS); Supervisors: Prof. David Nicholas.  Thesis: "Information-seeking behaviour of physicists and astronomers: an intradisciplinary study"; 30 April 2008.

     MA. in Library & Information Sciences

University of Tehran; Dept. of Library and Information Science (Iran), Dissertation: "Intra- and Inter-Disciplinary structure of Library and Information Science: a bibliometric study", Supervisor: Professor Abbas Horri. 12 January 2000.

     BSc. in Medical Library and Information Sciences

Kerman University of Medical Sciences; Dept. of Library and Information Science (Iran); BSc. 18 February 1997.

  Editorship

• Member of Reviewers of Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, Since 2012
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board of Aslib Proceedings, 2008-2011
• Associate editor of Webology (an international online journal), since 2004
• I have refereed papers for Aslib Proceedings, Information Processing and Management and Journal of Information Science, Program, Serials Review.

 Work Experiences

• Indexer: Indexing wills written by Iranian soldiers who were killed (martyrs) during Iran-Iraq war; Year: 1997; Organisation: The Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs (Iran).
• Abstractor: Writing Persian abstracts for about 4000 English articles in different fields of Iranian studies published in western academic journals; Year: 1998-2004; Organisation: the Iranology Foundation.
• Translator and Author: Writing and translating articles for The Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Science (in Persian); Year: 2002-2005; Organisation: The Iranian National Library.
• Senior Librarian: Working in the Khavaran public library in The Javan Cultural Centre as a senior librarian from January 2002 to September 2003 (in charge of technical services section).
• Invigilator: Working as Invigilator during examination periods at City University, 2004-2007.
• Working at UCL library as Library attendant, 2006.
• Working at UCL library as bibliographic assistant, 2006-2007.

 Teaching Experiences

• For my current teachings see teaching page.
• as lecturer: the course "principals of computer" at the Civil sciences University in Tehran; first semester of 2002-2003.
• as demonstrator: the module "Internet Technologies" at UCL. It includes technologies and applications such as HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, Photoshop and DreamWeaver; first semester of 2005/06.
• as demonstrator: the module "XML" at UCL; second semester of 2005/06.
• as lecturer of the module "Internet Technologies" at UCL, first semester 2006/07.

 Research Projects collaborated

• Google Generation
• SuperBook
• Determining the impact of open access publishing on use and users, details
• Deep Log Analysis of Institute of Physics journals, detials
• Views of physics authors on scholarly journal publishing. Institute of Physics , 2004, funded by Institute of Physics, July – December 2004, £6,500. Project heads: David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands, Researchers: Paul Huntington and H. R. Jamali.
• Scholarly Communication in the digital environment: what do authors really want?, funded by Publishers Association and Ciber participating organisations. £55,000. 2003-2004, Project heads: David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands, Researcher: Paul Huntington, Research assistant: H. R. Jamali.
• OhioLINK: Exploratory deep log analysis. a joint project with University of Tennessee. funded by US Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2005-, 446,988$.

 Summer Schools attended

• The 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2007), 27-31 August 2007, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

 Conferences, as a member of Scientific committee

• Academic Online Resources: Assessment and Usage, International Symposium, Universite Lille 1, 26 & 27 November 2009, Lille, France, http://epef.anr.free.fr

Conferences attended

• 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Imperial College London, 10-12 April 2006. see its website here (I got student sponsorship award for attending the conference)
• UK Serials Group 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 11 - 13 April 2005, see its website here. (I got student sponsorship award for attending the event)
• Internet Librarian Conference 2004, 11-12 October 2004, Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London. (as audience). you can find the presentations here.

 Workshops taught

• Web workshop for PhD students in Arts, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London, Organised by Research Skills Intercollegiate Network at UCL, 25 March 2005.

 Workshops attended

• Archival Material Description, ARMReN Research Workshop Programme, University College London, 26 June 2007.
• Archive Appraisal and Collection, ARMReN Research Workshop Programme, University College London, 7 June 2007.
• Advanced Personal & Professional Management Skills, Director: Dr Paul Walker, Hillingdon Outdoor Activity, Uxbridge (run by UCL), 2nd - 4th Sep 2005.
• Lab and Practical Class Teaching for Demonstrators, Tutor: Dr Stephen Tarling, University College London, Wed 22 Jun 2005.
• Personal & Professional Management Skills, Director: Dr Paul Walker, Easthampstead Park, Berkshire (run by UCL), 12th - 14th Nov 2004.
• E-Government, The 4th Social Study of IT workshop at the London School of Economics, 22-23 March 2004. (as audience).

One-semester courses attended

• Research, Evaluation and Communication Skills, Module leader: Dr. Jo Wood, Department of Information Studies, City University London, Oct 2003 - Jan 2004.
• Information Retrieval Systems and Applications, Module leader: Dr. Andrew MacFarlane, Department of Information Studies, City University London, Feb 2004 - May 2004.

 Professional membership

• The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), 2006-2008
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), 2004-2008
• Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBERE), 2003-2011.