Education

• Ph.D., Marine Zoology, University of Göteborg,Göteborg, Sweden, 1998
• M.Sc., Marine Ecology, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden, 1994
• B.Sc., Biology – Zoological Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 1990

Research interests

• Marine Biology
• Aquatic parasitology
• Invertebrate biology

Selected publications

Bonyadi-Naeini, A., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Glasby, C., Rahimian, H., 2017. Intertidal polychaetes from Abu Musa Island, Persian Gulf, with a new species from the Perinereis cultrifera species complex (Annelida: Nereididae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1-12. DOI:10.1017/S0025315417001564

Rahimian, H., Shafiei, S., Pouyani, N.R., Pouyani, E.R., 2015. Phylogenetic relationships of the gray-toad agama, Phrynocephalus scutellatus (Olivier, 1807), species complex from Iran. Zootaxa 3990(3): 369-380. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.3.3

Pazoki, S., Rahimian H., 2014. New species of Spauligodon Skrjabin, Schikhobalova & Lagodovskaja, 1960 and Thubunea Seurat, 1914 (Nematoda) from the gastro-intestinal tract of lizards in Iran. Systematic Parasitology 89(3): 259-70. DOI: 10.1007/s11230-014-9527-y

Rahmani, M.R., Rahimian, H., Ardalan, M., Keshavmurthy, S., Fontana, S., Wallace, C.C., Chen, C.A., 2013. Acropora distribution patterns in the northern and northeastern Persian Gulf. Zoological Studies 52: 40. DOI:10.1186/1810-522X-52-40

Agh, N., Bossier, P., Abatzopoulos, T.J., Beardmore, J.A., van Stappen, G., Mohammadyari, A., Rahimian, H., Sorgeloos, P., 2009. Morphometric and preliminary genetic characteristics of Artemia populations from Iran. International Review of Hydrobiology 94, 194-207.

Rahimian, H., 2007. Parasites of fingerling herring Clupea harengus L.: ecology and fine morphology. Journal of Helminthology 81 (2): 199-217. DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X07735381

Rahimian, H., 1998. Pathology and morphology of Ichthyophonus hoferi in naturally infected fishes off the Swedish west coast. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 34 (2): 109-123. DOI: 10.3354/dao034109

Rahimian, H., Thulin, J., 1996. Epizootiology of Ichthyophonus hoferi in herring populations off the Swedish west coast. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 27(3): 187-195. DOI: 10.3354/dao027187