Outreach and media

• Scientific American feature on the geology of oil and the Strait of Hormuz

Quoted on how Zagros tectonics shaped hydrocarbon accumulation and the modern Strait of Hormuz, March 2026

• MIT Research stay testimonial

My short article about my PRIME-funded research stay at MIT was published in the GAIN 2025 Briefing, p. 14.

• The oceanic plate between the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away

University of Göttingen press release on my Solid Earth 2024 paper on slab tearing, January 2025.

Featured by several media outlets, including Deutsche Welle, Bild, Rudaw, Al Jazeera, Hürriyet, and Ettelaat.

• Sofia Science Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria

Presented research findings to a public audience as a National Geographic Explorer, May 2024.

• Geological secrets of the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan Region

Outreach article published in the first issue of Kurdistan Chronicle, January 2023.

• Media coverage of my Tectonics paper

Featured in a news outlet in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, December 2020.

• Why does knowledge diversity matter? My cross-continent journey as an international scholar

Article published in the German Society of Humboldtians newsletter, June 2020.