Fatemeh Mayvaneh

Dr. Fatemeh Mayvaneh serves as a Researcher at the University of Münster's Climatology Group since December 2023, specializing in urban climate-health interactions with emphasis on vulnerable populations in Iranian and global contexts. Her work bridges environmental science, epidemiology, and public health policy through rigorous quantitative analysis.

Her academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Urban Climatology (2015-2020), M.Sc. in Applied Climatology (2010-2013), and B.Sc. in Physical Geography (2003-2006), all from Hakim Sabzevari University, Iran. This foundation enables her interdisciplinary approach to climate-health challenges.

Research focuses on quantifying health impacts from urban heat islands, air pollution (PM2.5, ozone), and climate extremes. She investigates thermal comfort thresholds, birth outcomes, and mortality patterns using advanced epidemiological methods. Current work emphasizes causal inference in national Iranian cohorts and multi-country comparative analyses to isolate temperature-pollution synergies.

Recent publications (2023-2025) reveal dominant trends in mortality-birth outcome studies using large-scale datasets (>4 million records), with 60% focusing on Iranian populations. Key themes include heat-night mortality associations, greenness-health interactions, and temporal shifts in temperature-mortality relationships under climate change. Methodologically, she employs distributed lag models, causal inference frameworks, and multi-stage modeling.

As part of the University of Münster's Climatology Group, she contributes to research on surface-atmosphere exchange processes, aerosol particles, urban climate systems, and air pollution dynamics. The group maintains active weather monitoring infrastructure and collaborates internationally on climate-health projects.