Samaneh Sadat NickayinBorn in Tehran (1984), Samaneh is a lecturer at the Agricultural University of Iceland. She received her Ph.D. in Landscape and Environment from Sapienza - University of Rome, and her Ph.D. thesis has been elected as the winner of Europen Council of andscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), Annual Awards 2018 - Outstanding Student Award, 3rd cycle. She got her master with honours from Sapienza - University of Rome (2013). Before she got into Landscape studies, she completed the Bachelor of Computer Hardware Engineering (Tehran, 2002-2006). She was engaged on issues ranging from Urban renewal to Green Infrastructure and Water System management. She has conducted field research at PennDesign - Pennsylvania University (2017) and Université de Liège (2012). She has been the former teaching assistant at the Architecture Faculty of Sapienza University of Rome (2014-2019). Samaneh's research interests focus on solving Large-Scale Planning problems with particular attention to holistic approaches. Read More Read Less