Mohammad Fazeli ( fa, محمد فاضلی; also

Romanize Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...

d as "Mohammad Fāzeli"; born 16 September 1975 in

Arak, Iran Arak ( fa, اراک, ''Arâk''; ) is the capital of Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 526,182, in 160,761 families. The city is nicknamed the "Industrial Capital of Iran". As a major industrial city, Arak hosts sever ...

) is an Iranian sociologist and former assistant professor at

Shahid Beheshti University Shahid Behesti University ( fa, دانشگاه شهید بهشتی , Dāneshgāh-e Shahid Beheshti) (formerly known as the National University of Iran) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers many programs at Bache ...

whose work focuses on

social impact assessment Social impact assessment (SIA) is a methodology to review the social effects of infrastructure projects and other development interventions. Although SIA is usually applied to planned interventions, the same techniques can be used to evaluate the s ...

political sociology Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...

and

sociology of science The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing with "the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity." The sociolog ...

. He got fired from university in the "third wave of purging political professors". He is advisor to Iranian Minister of Energy. Fazeli was the research deputy of Iranian Center for Strategic Studies and the general editor of the

Network for Public Policy Studies The Network for Public Policy Studies (NPPS) or Shams is an academic peer-reviewed website, under the supervision of Center for Strategic Studies, dedicated to the study of public policies with an emphasis on Iranian Government's policies. The N ...

(NPPS).

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* Living people Iranian sociologists Tarbiat Modares University alumni Amirkabir University of Technology alumni 1975 births Academic staff of Shahid Beheshti University Iranian environmentalists {{Asia-sociologist-stub