Dr. Sima Fakheran is Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences at Isfahan University of Technology, Iran. She was recently selected as one of the new Vice-Presidents of International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE).

She served as one of the main founding members of Iranian regional chapter of IALE and was elected as President of IALE-Iran in 2012. She did an outstanding job for promoting the science of landscape ecology in Iran.

Graduating from two different continents in different languages, environments and cultures; consulting many students, founding and working in several professional organizations; sitting on the board of directors for IALE-Iran, department of environmental sciences at Isfahan University of Technology, Director of Swiss desk at IUT as National Focal Point for developing academic cooperation between Iran and Switzerland; and many other environmental activities  provided her with a unique set of skills to listen, understand, solution, plan, develope and deliver. She is passionate about helping organizations to foster development and innovations through international networking, communication and learning.