Atefeh

Movassagh

Atefeh Movassagh completed her bachelor’s degree in Geology at Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran (2011) and graduated with a master’s degree in sedimentology and sedimentary petrology in the same university (in 2014). For her master’s thesis, she focused on the concentration of heavy metals and their spatial distribution and contamination in surficial sediments across Anzali Lagoon (South West of the Caspian Sea). The project was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Marine Geology of the Geological Survey of Iran. Throughout 2018, Atefeh worked as a lab assistant in a research project on Lake Bakhtegan in the Zagros Mountains, Iran. Currently, she is a member of the One Health Project at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources Management of the Center for Development Research (ZEF). She works on sustaiable carbon management in the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg region ,in Germany. The reserach study investigated how management practices in urban public and private green spaces influence soil carbon storage and health.