I am a sociologist and feminist social scientist whose work has developed across transnational academic settings, including Iran, the Czech Republic, Austria, Canada, and the United States. My research brings cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge, feminist theory, and the sociology of inequalities into conversation through empirical work on knowledge production, research institutions, gender, intimacy, the body, and public debates.

I am currently a Scholar with the Foundation for Law and International Affairs (FLIA), where I contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on knowledge, gender, inequality, and public institutions.

From 2022 to 2024, I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, where I led the project Understanding the Role of Diversity in European Research (URDER). This project examined how European research policy and funding institutions define and operationalize “diversity” and “excellence.” Drawing on in-depth interviews with European Research Council experts and policy analysis, I investigated how hierarchies of value are constructed and institutionalized in European academia.

In 2024–2025, I was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University and a member of the Trust Collaboratory.

I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, where my research focused on feminist sociology, postcolonial studies, gender, intimacy, and the body in Iran. During my doctoral training, I was also a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Vienna, the University of Graz, and the University of Toronto—experiences that broadened my transnational academic perspective. At Masaryk, I directed the Postcolonial Studies Working Group (2015–2021) and contributed to the Gender Match project.

Across these experiences, my scholarship investigates how social hierarchies are produced, contested, and reproduced in academic institutions, policy frameworks, public debates, and everyday knowledge practices.