Research and Teaching Supervision
I have 15 years of experience in supervising research and teaching. Since 2009, I have supervised, advised and examined over 100 MA research theses at various universities in The Netherlands (TU Delft, Utrecht, Erasmus University Rotterdam, IHE-Delft, VU Amsterdam), Singapore (National University of Singapore) and Azerbaijan (ADA University). With some of these former students, I have co-authors peer-reviewed publications (see my profiles for research).
I have worked with and guided a few dozen Research and Teaching Assistants on various research and educational projects. Some examples include working with Giulia Bisogni (research assistant) on the ODISSEI project (2021-2022), the project on analysing the OECD Water Discourses using mixed-methods, and with Mahardhika Sadjad (teaching assistant) on the MA course “Interpretive Research and Discourse Analysis” in 2022-2023. In a collaborative project with Daniele Rossi Doria, Birendra Singh and Peter Knorringa under the Research Innovation Facility of International Institute of Social Studies (ISS-RIF), I co-supervised and guided Daniele and Birendra in their research on water scarcity and social innovation in Morocco and India (2021-2023).
PhD Students Supervision and Examination
I currently serve on doctoral committees of 3 Ph.D. students — Mr. Jacob Baraza with Prof. Shuaib Lwasa, Ms. Ilaha Abasli with Professor Peter Knorringa, and Mr. Julian Naranjo, with Professor Wendy Harcourt and Helena Nino Perez. In the past, I served on doctoral committess of Ms. Fatema Baheranwala, and Ms. Beatriz Campillo.
I have formally examined 4 Ph.D. dissertations as part of Formal Doctoral Committees — Daniele Rossi Doria (2025), Renata Cavalcanti Muniz (2023) and Ellen Minkman (2022) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Irna Hofman (2019) at Leiden University. I served as a discussant at Full Draft Seminars, Dissertation Design Seminars and Mid-term Seminars of of a half-dozen Ph.D. students at ISS.
Nota Bene: I am interested in supervising Ph.D. students working on one of the themes outlined under my Research. Please, get in touch if you have funding for your research and look for a suitable supervisor or would like to visit as a visiting Ph.D. researcher.
Teaching Experience
Erasmus University Rotterdam, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Discourse Analysis and Interpretive Research (MA)
Development Policies and Practices (MA)
Policy Analysis and Design (MA)
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Socio-economic Processes, 1st year students of Global Sustainability Science (November 2017 – February 2018) (BA)
Politics of the Earth, 1st year students of Global Sustainability Science (February 2017 –April 2017) (BA)
ADA University, Azerbaijan
Global Environmental Political Economy (Spring 2015, BA)
Research Methods (repeated)
Sustainable Development (repeated)
World and Azerbaijani Geography (Spring 2014, 3 sections, BA)
Ethics in Public Affairs (Spring 2016, MA)
Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation (Spring 2015, MA)
Global Environmental Governance (Spring 2015, MA)
Introduction to Public Policy (Fall 2014, MA)
FHR Suriname, Joint Master in Public Administration Programme with ISS
“Governance, State and Society” in the Master of Public Administration programme at FHR Institute in Paramaribo, Suriname, February 2021, Paramaribo, Suriname (online)
“Governance, State and Society” in the Master of Public Administration programme at FHR Institute in Paramaribo, Suriname, 01-12 July, 2019, Paramaribo, Suriname
Tbilisi State University, Georgia (Adjunct Professor in Spring 2014)
Policy Analysis and Sustainable Development, Tbilisi State University, Institute for European Studies, (January 20 – 26, 2014, MA)
Central European University, Hungary
Water Resources Management and Geographic Information Systems (2005/2006), TA for MSc. in Environmental Science and Policy
Teaching Certificates/Credentials
-University Teaching Qualifications Training Course, Erasmus University Rotterdam, RISBO (2019-2020)
-Start to Teach Training, Utrecht University, September 2018