Academic Position:

Assistant Professor

Date of Birth:

Sep. 19, 1977

Place of Birth: 

 Tehran, Iran

Marital Status:

Married, No Child

Nationality:

Iranian

Education:

2007 (March-August): Full-time visiting postdoctoral student at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada; Supervisor: Professor Hamid R. Habibi. Research area: VTG and Thyroid receptor gene cloning and expression from Goldfish and different species of Sturgeon.

2001-2007: PhD. Student in Fisheries Sciences, Culture and Breeding of Aquatic                                                            Organisms, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

PhD Thesis: Chromosome Set Manipulation Techniques on the Caspian Salmon, Salmo trutta caspius and Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss for F1 Culture.

  Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Reza Kalbassi

   GPA: 19.11 out of 20.

1999:2001: MSc. in Fisheries Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

 Master Thesis: Spawning Induction in Female Rainbow Trout by GnRHa.

   Supervisor: Dr. Bagher Mojazi Amiri

    GPA: 19.30 out of 20

1994-1999: BSc. in Fisheries Sciences, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.

 Bachelor Thesis: Culture of Persian Sturgeon, Acipenser persicus Fry by Frozen Artemia Biomass.

    Supervisor: Dr. Nasrollah Mahboubi Soofiani

    GPA: 16.7 out of 20  

1990-1994: High School Diploma in Science, Almahdi (Shahed) High School, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran.

    GPA: 18.98 out of 20.

Phone:

+98 (311) 391 3580

Fax:

+98 (311) 391 2840

E-mail:

sdorafshan@cc.iut.ac.ir, sdorafshan@gmail.com.

Address:

Department Website:

Department Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 84156 - 83111, Iran.

http://natres.iut.ac.ir