I am an urbanist and digital geographer working at the intersection of cities, computation, care, and urban infrastructure. My research is grounded in critical and feminist digital geography and focuses on civil society and grassroots urbanism, particularly initiatives that mobilise data, algorithms, platforms, and AI as practices of refusal, situated governance, and spatial care.

I studied Urban Planning (BSc) at the University of Tehran and Spatial Planning (MSc) at University College London. I earned my PhD in Urban Geography at HafenCity University Hamburg, where I worked at the Economic Geography chair on the Legacy of Major projects/Events for Local Communities.

I worked for several years as a legacy planner for international consultancies and Olympic host cities. Drawing on this experience, I authored The Urban Legacy of the London Olympic Games among Local East Londoners, published in the Mega Event Planning series by Palgrave Macmillan.

My former independent research, Grassroots Digital Urbanism: Reshaping Urban Space and Governance in Berlin, was funded by the German Research Foundation through the Walter Benjamin Fellowship and hosted by Digital City Science at HafenCity University Hamburg.

I am an Associate Editor of Digital Geography and Society journal and the producer and host of the podcast Digital Urbanism: from the Grassroots.

Currently, I am part of an interdisciplinary planetary health research team at the University of Hamburg, and I lecture on Digital Urbanism in the Department of Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg.