Sättar Ezzati, Professor (Assist.) 

Position Type: Faculty member
Faculty: Forest Scineces
Department: Forest Engineering, Resource & Management
University: Gorgān University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
Office Location: Basij Square, 386 Gorgān, GR. Iran
Phone: +98 (017) 324 271 73 # 177
E-mail: Sattar.Ezzati@gau.ac.ir

EDUCATION:
PDF, 2019, Forest Logistics and Value-Creation Network, Université Laval, Canada
Ph.D, 2016. Forest Engineering and Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
MS, 2010. Forest Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
BS, 2008. Forestry, Kordistan University, Iran

RESEARCH AREAS:
Forest operations, logistics, planning and management

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Forest logistics & transportation
Wood supply-chain, value-added network
Biomass utilization
Bioenergy and GHG emissions
Forest Industry 4.00
Operations research in forestry

ADVISING

- Mohammad Javan (MS)
- Maede Mostafaloo (MS)
- Alireza Rezaee (MS)
- Mahboobeh Gholami (Ph.D)

GRADUATED:

- Zahra Aghababaie (MS). 2025
- Ali Ghanji Vatan (MS). 2024
- Ibrahim Malek Shahkoee (MS). 2023
- Sam Van Hosbeeck (Ph.D). 2019
- Hadi Sohrabi (MS). 2015
- Mojde Miraki (MS). 2014
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Ezzati, S., & Nasseri, M. H. (2025). Long-term prediction of wound closure in residual damaged trees using Markov chain analysis. Biosystems Engineering, 254, 104141.

Ezzati, S., Malek, I., Tavankar, F., & Parsakhoo, A. (2025). The role of management practices and trail layouts on postharvest healing of residual trees in mountain broadleaves forests. European Journal of Forest Research, 144(3), 621-633.

Ezzati, S., & Mohammadi, J. (2024). A decision support model for planning of spatial large extent biomass to bioenergy procurement network. Bioresource Technology Reports, 27, 101886.

Parsakhoo, A., Ezzati, S., Pirov, S., & Rasoli, Y. (2024). Tactical Planning of a Region-Wide Procurement Network. ECOPERSIA, 12(2), 189-204.

Ezzati, S., Zenner, E. K., Pakdaman, M., Naseri, M. H., Nikjoui, M., & Ahmadi, S. (2023). Spatially explicit modeling of disease surveillance in mixed oak-hardwood forests based on machine-learning algorithms. Journal of Environmental Management, 337, 117714.

Tavankar, F., Nikooy, M., Ezzati, S., Venanzi, R., Latterini, F., & Picchio, R. 2022. Long-term assessment of soil physicochemical properties and seedlings establishment after skidding operations in mountainous mixed hardwoods. European Journal of Forest Research.  141(4), 571-585.

Ezzati, S., Tavankar, F., Ghaffariyan, M. R., Venanzi, R., Latterini, F., & Picchio, R. 2021. The Impact of Weather and Slope Conditions on the Productivity, Cost, and GHG Emissions of a Ground-Based Harvesting Operation in Mountain Hardwoods. Forests, 12(12), 1612.

Ezzati, S., Cristian, D.P., Bettinger, P., Eriksson, L.O. 2020. An integrated multi-criteria decision analysis and optimization modeling approach to spatially operational road decisions. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. ID: 10.1139/cjfr-2020-0016.

Hosbeeck, S.V. Ezzati, S., Röser, D., Brown, M. 2020. A two-stage DSS to evaluate optimal locations for bioenergy facilities. Forests. 11(9), 968; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11090968.

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