Dr. Zeynab Parisa Foroozan

Since 2021: Scientific employee, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

2020: Ph.D. Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

• 2015-2019 DAAD scholarship holder
• 2019-2020 scholarship holder of Realisierung von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre (FFL) – Promotion Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching

2013: M.Sc. Natural resources engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran

2012: Guest researcher, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

2010: B.Sc. Natural resources engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran

Peer-reviewed:

Foroozan, Z., Grießinger, J., Pourtahmasi, K., Bräuning, A., 2020. 501 years of spring precipitation history for the semi-arid northern Iran derived from tree-ring δ18O data. In Atmosphere 11(9), p. 889. DOI: 10.3390/atmos11090889.

Foroozan, Z., Grießinger, J., Pourtahmasi, K., Bräuning, A., 2019. Evaluation of different pooling methods to establish a multi-century δ18O chronology for paleoclimate reconstruction. In Geosciences 9 (6), p. 270. DOI: 10.3390/geosciences9060270.

Foroozan, Z., Pourtahmasi, K., Bräuning, A., 2018. Climatic signals in stable carbon isotope ratios of Juniper and Oak tree rings from northern Iran. In Global and Planetary Change 165, pp. 90–99. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.03.010.

Foroozan, Z., Pourtahmasi, K., Bräuning, A., 2015. Stable oxygen isotopes in juniper and oak tree rings from northern Iran as indicators for site-specific and season-specific moisture variations. In Dendrochronologia 36, pp. 33–39. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2015.08.003.

Foroozan, Z., Tarmian, A., Ghamari, R., Matini., H., 2015. The effect of wetwood and blue stain (Ceratocystis spp.) on the drying rate and fluid transport coefficients of poplar (P. nigra). In Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Science Research 29(4), pp. 571-579.

Tarmian, A., Foroozan, Z., Sepehr, A., Gholamiyan, H., Oladi, R., 2013. Physical and anatomical features and drying behavior of the boards produced from old date palm trees (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Bam city. In Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Science Research, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands 28(3), pp. 498-508.

Foroozan, Z., Tarmian, A., Ge´rard, J., 2012. Possibility of using non-destructive spectrophotometry to detect the poplar tension wood and spruce compression wood in freshly cut and dried timbers. In Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Science Research, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands 27(4), pp. 584-594.

Tarmian, A., Foroozan, Z., Gholamiyan, H., Gérard, J., 2011. The quantitative effect of drying on the surface color change of reaction woods: spruce compression wood (Picea abies L.) and poplar tension wood (Populus nigra L.). In Drying Technology 29 (15), pp. 1814–1819. DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2011.603067.

Non-peer-reviewed:

Foroozan, Z., Pourtahmasi, K., Bräuning, A., 2017. Climatic signals in stable carbon isotope ratios of juniper tree rings in northern Iran. TRACE 15, 126-133.

Research Projects:

Since 2023: JunIRANet: Reconstruction of past hydroclimate variability in Iran from a multi- centennial and multi-parameter juniper tree-ring network

2021-2022: BayTreeNet: Interface of climate dynamics, dendroecology and education for sustainable development (baytreenet.de)

as part of bayklif – The Bavarian Network for Climate Research (bayklif.de)

2015-2020: Stable isotope variations in tree rings as indicators of environmental change and paleohydroclimate variability in north Iran

I am offering a M.Sc. thesis on the topic ” Evaluation of stable oxygen isotopes in tree rings as hydroclimate proxies for western Iran”.