I am an urbanist and digital geographer working at the intersection of cities, computation, and ordinary living. My research is grounded in critical and feminist digital geography and focuses on civil society and grassroots urbanism, particularly initiatives that engage with data, algorithms, platforms, and AI through practices of refusal, situated governance, and Infrastructure of care.

Currently, I am a DFG Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, leading a three-year research project on the socio-spatial dimensions of post-platform urbanism, with AI-powered housing platforms in Berlin as its case study.

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

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 researched the legacies of major projects and 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 Employment Legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games: A Case Study of East London, published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of its Mega Event Planning series.

I am an Associate Editor of Digital Geography and Society, and I teach Digital Urbanism in the Department of Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg.