Abolfazl Rezaei is an Assistant Professor in the Earth Sciences department at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) where he has been a faculty member since 2015. Abolfazl completed his MS and PhD in hydrogeology at Shiraz University and his undergraduate studies in geology at Tehran University, Iran. His research interests lie in the area of water resources and hydrogeology, ranging from studying karst and alluvial groundwater systems to large-scale ocean-atmosphere circulations impact on water resources variability. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of earth-related sciences, particularly applied geophysics and geodesy, and recently climatology.