Dr Mohammad Farhadinia

Dr Mohammad Farhadinia gained his BSc and MSc in Environmental Sciences at the University of Tehran before studying for his PhD in zoology at the University of Oxford. After completing his PhD, he worked as a research fellow at Oxford Martin School, focusing on analytical methods to improve understanding of wider factors affecting biodiversity conservation (largely of megafauna) in west and central Asia considering environmental resources and cross-border conservation, with the goal of leveraging biodiversity conservation in this region of the world. He then received an OPEN fellowship from the University to work on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and how to engage developing countries in fulfilling their biodiversity commitments in partnership with the UNEP's World Conservation Monitoring Centre. In 2022, he was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Kent.

Rewilding and species restoration, conservation geopolitics, movement and population ecology    

• WCON5050: Key Issues in Conservation Science
• WCON5180: Contemporary Conservation Science
• DICE1001: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Conservation
• ANTS3080: Academic and Research Skills

Dr Mohammad Farhadinia is interested in supervising students in any of the four research areas described above.

Current PhD students

• Ewan Rhys Davies: University of Kent (UK): White-tailed eagle recovery across multi-use landscapes in England landscapes (primary supervisor).
• Nicholas Pilaud: University of Oxford (UK): Interspecific interaction between large carnivores in desert landscapes (primary supervisor).
• Pejman Pazouki Dehghanian Fard: University of Kent (UK): evaluating the role of innovative financial mechanisms, policy frameworks, and nature markets in facilitating landscape-scale nature recovery in the UK (co-supervisor).
• Thomas Hurst: University of Kent (UK): Investigating beaver expansion and the factors associated with damming behaviour in Britain (co-supervisor).

Past PhD students

• Shams, Ali. 2021-2025. Demography and movement ecology of northwest African cheetahs in Benin. PhD, University of Cape Town.
• Araujo, Pablo Cisneros. 2022-2024. Movement ecology of reintroduced Iberian lynx. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
• Sharbafi, Elmira. 2022-2025. Socio-psychological dimensions of human-carnivores conflict among ethnic groups in protected areas of Hyrcanian forests, northern Iran, PhD, Gorgan University.    

• Trustee, Field Studies Council
• Member, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management
• Member, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
• Member, British Ecological Society
• Handling editor: Conservation Biology
• Member of the Selection Committee, Emerging Conservationist Award,      Indianapolis Zoo, US
• Past member, International Selection Committee, Future for Nature Award
• Past board member/VP, Society of Conservation Biology Asia