Fatemeh Shayan, Ph.D. ,

Dr. Fatemeh Shayan is associate professor of international relations at University of Isfahan (UI), Iran. She is the only winner of political science group of the 2019 Farabi International Award and the 2019 and 2023 distinguished researcher at University of Isfahan. She was also selected as a distinguished researcher at UI in December 2022. Earlier, she was a post-doctoral scholar at University of Tampere (UTA), Finland. She completed her doctoral study in the Faculty of Management at UTA, and defended her dissertation in December 2014. She has published many academic publications in international ISI journals such as Energy Strategy Review, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Millennium: Journal of International Studies and Geopolitics. She was also a researcher at UTA between 2013 and 2014. Her latest books, Security in the Persian Gulf Region, was published by Palgrave McMillan in London in 2017; and Gas Troika on the European Gas Market (Vol. I, II) by Walter De Gruyter in Boston in 2023 and 2026. She was a visiting scholar at University of Exeter, UK; University of Oslo, Norway; Plekhanov and Lomonosov Universities, Moscow; and FINEC University, Russia. Her research areas include energy policies, natural gas, European Union energy issues, Russia, Iran and Qatar energy issues, and Persian Gulf security complex. She can be contacted at f.shayan@ase.ui.ac.ir.

• Bachelor, English Literature, University of Isfahan [ - ]
• Master's degree, International Relations, University of Isfahan [ - ]
• Ph.D., International Relations, University of Tampere [ - Finland]
• Postdoctoral, International Relations, University of Tampere [ - Finland]