Dr. Fahimeh Mirchooli
Postdoc for Hydrology
Research Areas
- Soil erosion and conservation
- Sediment and water interaction
- Spatial modeling and machine learning
- Catchment health and sustainability
Dr. Fahimeh Mirchooli
3.014
Meckenheimer Allee 176
53115 Bonn
Curriculum Vitae
- Postdoc, 2025 - present, University of Bonn, Germany
- Lab Expert, 2023 - Jan 2025, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Iran
- Research Assistant, 2022 - Jan 2023, Hakim Sabzevari University, Iran
- Postdoc, 2021- 2022, Hakim Sabzevari University, Iran
- Research Assistant, 2020 - 2021, Hakim Sabzevari University, Iran
- P.hD, Natural Resource Engineering (Watershed Science and Engineering), 2020, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
- Visiting Researcher, 2019, University of Salzburg, Austria
- M.Sc, Natural Resource Engineering (Watershed Management), 2013, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
- B.Sc, Natural Resource Engineering (Rangeland and Watershed Management), 2011, University of Tehran, Iran
- Sabbatical Scholarship, September 2019 – March 2020, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Iran
- George Forster fellowship, 2025, Germany
Awards and Honors
Ranked 1st, among Ph.D. students in watershed management sciences and engineering (GPA: 18.42/20).
Year:
2020
Ranked 6th out of 347 participants in the nationwide Ph.D. entrance exam (Konkoor) for Watershed Management
Year:
2015
Publications
Determining Community Attitudes toward Various Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Using the Social Profile Ratio Technique.
Kateb, F., Mirchooli, F., & Mostafazadeh, R. (2024)
Journal of Human Environment and Health Promotion, 10(1), 44-51
Changes in urban green space configuration and connectivity using spatial graph-based metrics in Ardabil developing city, Iran.
Mostafazadeh, R., Alaei, N., Mirchooli, F., & Hussain, S. (2024)
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(9), 778.
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Rangeland Ecosystem Services Across the Shazand Watershed, Iran.
Mirchooli, F., Dabiri, Z., Strobl, J., Darvishan, A. K., & Sadeghi, S. H. (2023)
Rangeland Ecology & Management, 90, 45-55.
Spatial modeling of relationship between soil erosion factors and land-use changes at sub-watershed scale for the Talar watershed, Iran.
Mirchooli, F., Mohammadi, M., & Sadeghi, S. H. (2023)
Natural Hazards, 116(3), 3703-3723.
Mapping land degradation risk due to land susceptibility to dust emission and water erosion.
Boroughani, M., Mirchooli, F., Hadavifar, M., & Fiedler, S. (2023)
Soil, 9(2), 411-423.
Tracking the origin of trace metals in a watershed by identifying fingerprints of soils, landscape and river sediments.
Derakhshan-Babaei, F., Mirchooli, F., Mohammadi, M., Nosrati, K., Egli, M. (2022)
Science of the Total Environment, 155583.
Spatiotemporal dynamic of environmental indices of watershed sustainability in connection with land use change.
Mirchooli, F., Sadeghi, S. H., Darvishan, A. K. (2022)
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 8(1).
A New Approach for Smart Soil Erosion Modeling: Integration of Empirical and Machine-Learning Models.
Avand, M. M. Mohammadi, M., Mirchooli, F., Kavian, K., Tiefenbacher, J. P. (2022)
Environmental Modeling & Assessment. 28(1), 145-160.
Assessment of the impact of dust aerosols on crop and water loss in the Great Salt Desert in Iran.
Boroughani, M., Mohammadi, M., Mirchooli, F., & Fiedler, S. (2022)
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 192, 106605
Multi-dimensional assessment of watershed condition using a newly developed barometer of sustainability.
Mirchooli, F., Sadeghi, S. H., Darvishan, A. K., & Strobl, J. (2021)
Science of the Total Environment, 148389.
Analyzing spatial variations of relationships between Land Surface Temperature and some remotely sensed indices in different land uses.
Mirchooli, F., Sadeghi, S. H. R. Khaledi Darvishan, A. V. (2020)
Society and Environment. 19, 100359.
Gully Erosion Susceptibility Mapping (GESM) using machine learning methods optimized by the multi‑collinearity analysis and k-fold cross-validation.
Ghorbanzadeh, O., Shahabi, H., Mirchooli, F., Valizadeh Kamran, K., Lim, S., Aryal, J., Jarihani, B., Blaschke, T. (2020).
Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk. 11(1), 1653-1678
Flood risk mapping and crop‑water loss modeling using water footprint analysis in agricultural watershed, northern Iran.
Mohammadi, A., Darabi, H., Mirchooli, F., Bakhshaee, A. M., Haghighi. (2020)
Natural Hazards, 105(2), 2007–2025.
Spatial distribution dependency of soil organic carbon content to important environmental variables.
Mirchooli, F., Kiani -Harchegani, M., Falahatkar, S., Sadeghi, S. H. R. (2020).
Ecological Indicators, 116, 106473.
How do data-mining models consider arsenic contamination in sediments and variables importance?
Mirchooli, F., Motevalli, A., Pourghasemi, H.R., Mohammadi, M., Bhattacharya, P., Maghsood, F., Tiefenbacher, J. F. (2019)
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 191:777
Spatial modelling of gully erosion in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran.
Zabihi, M., Mirchooli, F., Motevalli, A., Darvishan, A. K., Pourghasemi, H. R., Zakeri, M. A., & Sadighi, F. (2018)
Catena, 161, 1-13