Ph.D in seismic exploration (2007), Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)

M.S. (2004), Soil Mechanics and geotechnical engineering, Ecole Nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC),  Paris, France

M.S. (2003), Earthquake Engineering, International Institute of Earthquake engineering and seismology (IIEES), Tehran, Iran

B.S. (2000), Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran


Main Research interests

Seismic ray theory for anisotropic media

Inverse theory and tomography

Depth migration and complex velocity models

Numerical methods for seismic analysis (BEM/FEM) 

Probabilistic earthquake hazard assessment


Publications

Dehghan K. and Audebert F. (2008), Ray-based anisotropic reflection tomography, from VTI to STI media, 13th international workshop on seismic anisotropy, Denver, Colorado.

Dehghan K., Farra V. and Nicoletis L. (2007),  Approximate ray tracing for qP-waves in inhomogeneous layered media with weak structural anisotropy ,Geophysics, Volume 72, Issue 5, pp. SM47-SM60.

Dehghan K., Farra V. and Nicoletis L. (2006) , Approximate Ray-tracing for qP waves in weakly TI media, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gatmiri B., Nguyen K. and Dehghan K. (2006) , Seismic Response of Slopes Subjected to Incidennt SV Wave by an Improved Boundary Element Approach, International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Volume 31, issue 10, Pages 1183 - 1195.

Dehghan K. and Gatmiri B. (2005), Applying a New Fast Numerical Method to Elasto-Dynamic Transient Kernels in Hybrid  Wave Propagation analysis, Sixth European Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN), Paris.

Kamalian M., Jafari M.K. and Dehghan K. (2004) , Two-dimensional Hybrid Modeling of Diffracted P, SV Waves by Topographic Irregularities, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Canada.

Gatmiri B., Dehghan K and Gholamifard SH. (2004), Estimation of Subgrade Reaction Modulus by a 3D Analysis of Soil-Structure Interaction, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Canada.

Kamalian M. and Dehghan K. (2003), A Hybrid BEM/FEM Study of Topographical Effects on Seismic Waves, 4th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE4), Iran.

Kamalian M.,  Jafari M.K.,  Dehghan K. and Razmkhah A. (2003), Two-dimensional Hybrid Response Analysis of Trapezoidal Shaped Hills in Time Domain, Advances in Boundary Element Techniques IV, Queen Mary Ed. (ISBN 0904 188965), UK.


Membership

The society of exploration geophysicists (SEG)

European Association of  Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE)

American  Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)