Ali Reza Shahvaran

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).