Mohammad was born in a small city in Kerman province, Iran. Following an innate passion, he gained his civil engineering degree at Iran University of Science and Technology. Later, he obtained his master’s degree in structural engineering at the Sharif University of Technology. After working in the industry for a few years, he started his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo. Here, he is currently working with Prof. Scott Walbridge and Prof. Mahesh Pandey to enhance our understanding of the climate change and threats that this phenomenon might pose to our infrastructure.