About Me

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, and I hold a research associate position at the Geosciences Center (Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum Göttingen) at the University of Göttingen in Germany. I investigate tectonic processes through sedimentary rocks, including mountain building and the surface expression of deep-Earth geodynamic processes. I received the Bachelor of Science degree in geology (2006) from the Salahaddin University-Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. After being awarded an American fellowship, I graduated with MSc (2011) and PhD (2016) degrees in the geological sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the University of Göttingen as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in the summer of 2019, I conducted a one-year postdoctoral research at the University of Bern in Switzerland as a recipient of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.