Academic Positions

Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology – Columbia University (2024-2025). 

Mari Skłodowska-Curie Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies – Vienna (2022-2024).

Project: Understanding the Role of Diversity in European Research (URDER)

Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies – Vienna (2021-2024).

Education

PhD    Sociology (2021), Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Dissertation: Global Inspirations and Plastic Modesty: The Case of Intimacy and Composite Gender Arrangements in Iran.

MA        Sociology (2014), Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Thesis: The Contentious Body: On Representation of Woman’s Body in the Iranian Public Sphere.

MSc       Technology Management (2011), Staffordshire University, Malaysia.               

Thesis: Critical Success Factors of Implementing Knowledge Management in Service Sector Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises of Malaysia.

BSc         Electrical Engineering (2008),

Islamic Azad University of Najafabad, Iran.

Publications

Journal Articles

Mohammadi, E., Koenig, T. and Zimmermann, B., Multi-layered Sampling Strategy for Qualitative Interviews: Methodical Reflections on Sampling Interviews with the European Research Council Review Experts. International Journal of Social Research Methodology (2025): 1-13.

König, T. and Mohammadi, E., 2024. Europeanising Academia: The Curious Case of “Scientific Excellence”. JEIH Journal of European Integration History, 30(2), pp.285-300.

Mohammadi, E. and Durnova, A., (2021). Policy expertise and culture: the case of “civil sexuality” in Iran. International Review of Public Policy, 3(3.3), pp. 314-334.

Durnova, A. and Mohammadi, E., (2021). Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic. Sociology Compass, pp. 1-10.

Manuscripts Under Preparation

Intimacy, Individualism, and In-betweenness: Dignity and Double-consciousness among Disenfranchised Urban Women in Iran.

Excellence is Blind: Diversity and Axiological Neutrality in Academia.

“Excellence” as “Impact”, and the Impact of “Excellence”.

Book Review

Mohammadi, E., (2018). Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment. International Sociology: Journal of the International Sociological Association /ISA, University College Cardiff Press, 33/2018, No. 2, pp. 237-239.

Selected Conference Presentations and Academic Talks

Excellence is Blind: Diversity and axiological neutrality in European academia, Workshop:​​ Decolonising Social Sciences: Theory, Policy, and Pedagogical Practice, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria (2024).

Scientific Expertise in Population and Family Policy in Iran, Lecture Series at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, United Kingdom (2022). 

Policy Expertise and Culture – The Case of “Civil Sexuality” in Iran, Sociology Lecture Series, University of Vienna, Austria (2022).

Re-thinking political sociology of emotions: autonomy and liberal democracy in pandemic times, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) general conference, Virtual (2020).

The Contested Body: Representations of Women’s Bodies in the Iranian Public Sphere, 12th European Sociological Association Conference, Czech Republic (2015).

Professional Research Experiences

Principal Investigator, 

MSCA Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria. (2022 – 2024).

Project: Understanding the Role of Diversity in European Research (URDER).

Researcher, 

Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Centre for Gender and Science, Czech Republic (2021).

Project: Responding to Outbreaks Through Co-creative, Sustainable, Inclusive, and Equal Strategies (RESISTIRÉ).

Research Fellow, 

Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria (2020 – 2021).

Project: Crafting Liberal Democracy Through Self-determination: The Case of Women’s Health Care Choices (CLIDE).

Researcher, 

Division of Information and Library Studies (KISK), Masaryk University, Czech Republic (2015).

Teaching Experiences 

Seminar Chair, 

Politics of Emotions and Decision Making, European Forum Alpbach, Austria (2021).

Seminar Instructor, Sociological Theory, 

Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2018). 

Teaching Assistant, 

Sociological Theory, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2018). 

Cultural Sociology, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2016). 

CoLecturer, 

Sexualities and Gender: East-West Debates, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2015). 

Organising and Community-Building Experiences 

Organizer

Workshop: Opening Peer Review to Independent Research & Building a Community of European Researchers, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria, (2024);

Workshop: Decolonizing Social Sciences Theory, Policy, and Pedagogical Practice, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria, (2024).

Co-chair

Panel: What is “Openness” in Open Science? The case of publicly funded research and its implicit expectations, Science and Technology Studies Conference, Austria, (2023);

Panel: Open Panel, European Conference on Politics and Gender, Slovenia (2022).

Coordinator 

Study Group: Postcolonial Theory, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, (2015 – 2021).

Member 

Centre for the Cultural Sociology of Migration, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, (2020 – 2022).

Gender Match, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, (2015 – 2019).

Awards and Scholarships

Fellowship

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Podtdoctoral Grant (2022-2024), 

Principal Investigator, Institute for Advanced Studies-Vienna, Austria.

Scholarship

Erasmus-Plus  (2017-2018), 

Doctoral Fellow, University of Vienna, Austria.

Erasmus-Plus (2019),

Doctoral Fellow, University of Graz, Austria.

Doctoral Fellow (2017),

MUNK School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada.

Language Skills

English (Professional),

Farsi / Persian (Native).