Dr.-Ing. Zeinab Shirvani

Digital Futures Postdoctoral Fellow, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2023–06.2025)
Division of Geoinformatics, Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; https://www.kth.se/profile/zeinabsh|https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/person/zeinab-shirvani/

Supervisor (REFOREST Program) SUA & SLU (2021–Present)
A regional, interdisciplinary PhD program in advanced forest sciences research, focusing on climate resilience and forest management hosted at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and supported by SLU.

Postdoctoral Researcher, SLU, Sweden (2021–2023)
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Research Assistant, CIPSEM, TUD, Germany (2020)
Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management (CIPSEM), TU Dresden, Germany

Education
Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) in Cartography, Remote Sensing, and GIS
Department of Geosciences, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany (2014–2020)
o Dissertation: "A Holistic Analysis for Spatiotemporal Interdependencies of Deforestation, Forest Degradation, and Landslide Susceptibility in NE Iran"; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-720540

Maillard, O., Ribeiro, N., Armstrong, A., Ribeiro-Barros, A.I., Andrew S.M., Russell-Smith, J., Amissah, L., Shirvani, Z., Muledi, J., Abdi, O., Archibald, S., Azurduy, H., Neves Silva, J., Syampungani, S., Shamaoma, H., Buramuge, V., Junior, J.F., 2025. Seasonal spatial-Temporal Trends of Vegetation Recovery in Burned Areas across Africa: 2001-2022. PLoS ONE, 20(2): e0316472; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316472

Meneses, O., Ribeiro, N.S., Shirvani, Z., Macrice, S.A., 2025. Resilience of the Miombo Woodland to Different Fire Frequencies in the LevasFlor Forest Concession, Central Mozambique. Forests, 16(1): 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/f16010010 

Meneses, O., Ribeiro, N.S., Shirvani, Z., Macrice, S.A., 2024. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Wildfire Regimes in Miombo of the LevasFlor Forest Concession, Central Mozambique. Fire, 7(8), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7080264

Shirvani, Z., Abdi, O., Goodman, R., 2023. High-Resolution Semantic Segmentation of Woodland Fires Using Residual Attention UNet and Time Series of Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing, 15(5), 1342; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051342

Shirvani, Z., 2020. A Holistic Analysis for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Applying Geographic Object-Based Random Forest: A Comparison between Protected and Non-Protected Forests. Remote Sensing, 12(3): 434; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030434

Shirvani, Z., Abdi, O., Buchroithner, M.F., 2020.  A New Analysis Approach for Long-Term Variations of Forest Loss, Fragmentation, and Degradation Resulting from Road-Network Expansion Using Landsat Time-Series and OBIA. Land Degradation & Development, 31(12), 1462-1481; https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3530

Shirvani, Z., Abdi, O., Buchroithner, M.F., 2019. A Synergetic Analysis of Sentinel-1 and -2 for Mapping Historical Landslides Using Object-Oriented Random Forest in the Hyrcanian Forests. Remote Sensing, 11(19), 2300; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192300

Abdi, O., Shirvani, Z., Buchroithner, M.F., 2019. Forest Drought-Induced Diversity of Hyrcanian Individual-Tree Mortality Affected by Meteorological and Hydrological Droughts by Analyzing Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Products and Spatial Autoregressive Models over Northeast Iran. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 275, 265-276; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.05.029

Abdi, O., Shirvani, Z., Buchroithner, M.F., 2018. Visualization and Quantification of Significant Anthropogenic Drivers Influencing Rangeland Degradation Trends Using Landsat Imagery and GIS Spatial Dependence Models: A Case Study in Northeast Iran. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 28(12), 1933-1952; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11442-018-1572-z

Abdi, O., Shirvani, Z., Buchroithner, M.F., 2018. Spatiotemporal Drought Evaluation of Hyrcanian Deciduous Forests and Semi‐Steppe Rangelands Using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Time Series in Northeast Iran. Land Degradation & Development, 29(8), 2525-2541; https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3025

Shirvani, Z., Abdi, O., Buchroithner, M.F., Pradhan, B., 2017. Analysing Spatial and Statistical Dependencies of Deforestation Affected by Residential Growth: Gorganrood Basin, Northeast Iran. Land Degradation & Development, 28(7), 2176-2190;  https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2744

Abdi, O., Kamkar, B., Shirvani, Z., Silva, J., Buchroithner, M.F., 2016. Spatial-Statistical Analysis of Factors Determining Forest Fires: A Case Study from Golestan, Northeast Iran. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 7(4), 1206–1227; https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2016.1206629