• Experience is the interaction between landscapes and subsurface forces, environmental pollution, as well as geomorphology, hydrology and natural hazards. • An effective networker collaborating with more than 30 geoscientists around the world (e.g. Santa Catarina State University, Brazil; University of Missouri, Kansas City; Jena University, Germany; Durham University, UK). • Over 10 papers in high ranking journals with more than 140 citations. Two of my papers have more than 30 citations. • Reviewer four peer reviewed journals (i.e. Environmental Earth Sciences, Geological Magazine, Bulletin of Geodetic Science and Iraqi Bulletin of Geology and Mining.

Qualifications PhD 2018 Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, UK Thesis: ‘Tectonic and fluvial geomorphology of the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt’ Supervisor: Prof Mark Allen External examiner: Prof Sarah Boulton, Plymouth University Internal examiner: Prof Stewart Jones, Durham University Master of Science 2009 Department of geology, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq Thesis: ‘Environmental pollution study and identification of Tigris River within Baghdad City using remote sensing Data and GIS techniques’ Bachelor of Science 1993 Department of Earth Sciences, Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq Dissertation title: An investigation of archaeological sites in Mosul city using geophysical electrical method”

Teaching at the Department of Geology, University of Baghdad

Iraqi Geologists Union, 1993 to present. *British Society for Geomorphology (BSG), Since 2015. *International Association of Sedimentologists IAS, since 2017. *European Geosciences Union EGU, 2016-2017; 2017-2018; 2018-2019.

*DAAD capacity building program in the University of Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany. 16 Sep.-11 Oct., 2010, *International DAAD summer school held from July 20 to August 4, 2010 in the Sulaimaniyah, Iraq. *Fully funded PhD study scholarship in the University of Durham, Department of Earth sciences supported by Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Iraq MOHESR 2014. *Academic visitor at the Department of Earth science, University of Durham, 2019.