Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Taghizadeh received his Ph.D. degree in the field of Environmentalengineering from Tehran science and technology university (lAU) in 2007.He has been
working as an academic staff member at the department of environmental engineering in lAU,Estahban branch (lran).from 2001.
Dr. Taghizadeh is head of the environmental department in lAU-Estahban branch. He hassupervised about 40 M.Sc. studies. He has more than 90 publications both in English and
Farsi including papers, book chapters, project reports, etc. He is board member of think tank ofFars province environmental organization. The main research subjects of Professor
Taghizadeh are water and wastewater treatment, industrial wastewater treatment, Air pollution,and environmental assessment research. He has designed more than 40 water and wastewater treatment for small cities and factories. He has done more than 1O environmentalassessment studies for petroleum industries, mine, municipalities and so on.