Mahyar Masoudi

Mahyar Masoudi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he directs the Urban Ecology & Analytics Lab. He holds adjunct appointments at University of Waterloo's School of Planning and is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University's Resilient and Inclusive Cities Lab. His research examines how spatial patterns of urban elements influence environmental performance and human well-being.

Education includes: PhD from National University of Singapore (2018), MSc from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2012), BSc from University of Guilan (2009), and postdoctoral work at Waterloo and NUS.

Research integrates urban ecology, geographic information science, and environmental justice to study urban landscapes as social-ecological-technological systems. Key interests include urban heat mitigation, ecosystem services, and equitable access to environmental benefits using remote sensing, spatial statistics, and machine learning.

Publications focus on urban thermal environments, ecosystem service modeling, and landscape pattern analysis. Recent work examines cooling efficiency of green spaces across Asian megacities and develops computational tools like the NCS2020 R package for ecosystem service assessment.

No scientific awards documented.

Leads the Urban Ecology & Analytics Lab developing geospatial methods to enhance urban sustainability and equity.