Fatemeh Shayan, Ph.D. ,

Dr. Fatemeh Shayan is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Isfahan (UI), Iran. She is the only winner of the 2019 Farabi International Award in the field of political science and a distinguished researcher at the University of Isfahan in 2019 and 2023. She was also selected as a celebrated researcher at UI in December 2022. Earlier, she was a post-doctoral scholar at Tampere University (TUNI), Finland. She completed her doctoral studies in the Faculty of Management at TUNI, 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, were published by Palgrave Macmillan in London in 2017; and Gas Troika on the European Gas Market (Vol. I and 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’s energy issues, as well as the 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]