Dr. Parinaz Rahimzadeh received her Ph.D. in Biological and Environmental Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Geography, University of Guelph in Canada for two years before joining the University of Maine in 2014 as an Assistant Research Professor. Since September 2018, she has been working as the Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing of Natural Resources at the School of Forest Resources, University of Maine.
Parinaz has been actively involved in and leading several projects employing remote sensing and geo-spatial analysis since 2004. She currently has a number of active projects to address sustainable forest management issues related to forest health and productivity, targeting major northeastern pest and pathogen induced disturbances and monitoring the status of their host species by detecting the changes and mapping forest composition and forest biochemical and biophysical properties, using optical and radar remote sensing technology at different scales.