Mostafa Javadian

BIOGRAPHY

Mostafa Javadian is a postdoctoral scientist in The Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University. His research focuses on leaf energy balance modeling using thermal infrared imagery. He was previously a postdoctoral research associate in Bill Smith's lab in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. Mostafa does research in remote sensing of drylands, with an emphasis on detecting vegetation water stress using thermal remote sensing from tower, drone, and satellite platforms.

Mostafa earned his undergraduate in civil engineering, wherein an environmental course he discovered that he might be able to combine his love of the environement into a viable career. He went on to earn a Master’s degree in water resources management and engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran with a focus on estimating agricultural water consumption using satellite remote sensing observations. Then, he moved to the United States in 2019 and he earned his Ph.D. in hydrology and remote sensing from the University of Arizona in May 2022 with a focus on vegetation water stress.