Dr. Arezo Najafian

Academic Rank:  Associate Professor, Level 18. Payame Noor University 
Field of Study: General Linguistics
Research Area: Morphology, Mental Processing of Complex Words, Dialectology Supervision and advice of  more  than 50 dissertations and theses, authoring and co- authoring of 41 scientific- research articles, 28 national  and international conference papers, and 16 encyclopedia articles

Key Works
Languages and Dialects of Khorasan, Marja Publishing, Tehran, 2012 (2nd edition 2014)
Scripts and Writing Systems of Islamic World, Marja Publishing, Tehran, 2012 (co- authored), 2nd edition 2014
Calligraphy and Writing, written by Andrew Robinson, translated by Fatemeh Tavassoli, edited by Arezo Najafian, Hekmat Publications, Tehran, 2016.
Research Reference, Andishe Ara Publications, Tehran, joint work supervised by Hamid Ghasemi and other colleagues, 2021.
Oral History of Iranian Higher Education Narrated by Jafar Tofighi Darian, Ahmad Davari Ardakani, Arezo Najafian. Institute for Research and Planning of Higher Education in Iran. Tehran. 2021

Executive experience
Managing Director and Editorial Board Member of the Scientific Research Journal of Sociolinguistics since 2015.
Teaching experience as a visiting professor at Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Tarbiat Modares and Al-Zahra  Universities.
Full member of the "Specialized Commission for Cultural and Social Affairs and Humanities and Islamic Studies" of the Supreme Council for Science, Research and Technology from 2019 to March 2024