Research Interests:

• Carbonate rocks
• Low-temperature geochemistry
• Paleoclimate
• Reservoir geology 

PhD Thesis:

Reconstruction of the paleoenvironmental, paleoclimatic, and paleoceanographic conditions during the Early Miocene, Qom Basin, Central Iran

Publications:

Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Rahimpour-Bonab, H., Tavakoli, V., 2018. Evaluation of reservoir quality of the Arab Formation using integrating hydraulic flow units and sequence stratigraphy in the Balal Field, 3rd international geoscience congress, Tehran, Iran.

Nazemi M., Tavakoli V., Rahimpour-Bonab, H., Hosseini, M., Sharifi-Yazdi, M., 2018. The effect of carbonate reservoir heterogeneity on Archie’s exponents (a and m), an example from Kangan and Dalan gas formations in the central Persian Gulf, Journal of Natural Gas Science 59, 297-308.

Nazemi, M., Tavakoli, V., Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Rahimpour-Bonab, H., Hosseini, M., 2019. The impact of micro-to macro-scale geological attributes on Archie’s exponents, an example from Permian-Triassic carbonate reservoirs of the central Persian Gulf. Marine and Petroleum Geology 102, 775-785.

Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Rahimpour-Bonab H., Tavakoli, V., Nazemi, M., Kamali, M.R., 2019. Linking diagenetic history to depositional attributes in a sequence stratigraphic framework: a case from Upper Jurassic Arab Formation in the central Persian Gulf. Journal of African Earth Science 153, 91-110.

Honarvar Nazari, M., Tavakoli, V., Rahimpour-Bonab, H., Sharifi-Yazdi, M., 2019. Investigation of factors influencing geological heterogeneity in tight gas carbonates, Permian reservoir of the Persian Gulf. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 183, 106341.

Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Rahimpour-Bonab H., Nazemi, M., Tavakoli, V., Gharechelou, S., 2020. Diagenetic impacts on hydraulic flow unit properties: insight form the Jurassic carbonate Upper Arab Formation in the Persia Gulf. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology 10, 1783-1802.

Nazemi, M., Tavakoli, V., Rahimpour-Bonab, H., Sharifi-Yazdi, M., 2021. Integrating petrophysical attributes with saturation data in a geological framework, Permian-Triassic reservoirs of the central Persian Gulf. Journal of African Earth Sciences 179, 104203.

Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Tavakoli, V., Salehi-Noparvar, S., Vaezi, A., Naderi Beni, M., Nazemi, M., Gupta, S.D., Routh, J., 2022. Influence of the Late Quaternary climate on sedimentology of the Jazmurian Playa, SE Iran. Journal of Paleolimnology 68, 169-187.

Zandifar, S., Tavakoli, V., Vaezi, A., Naeimi, M., Naderi Beni, M., Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Routh, J., 2022. Influence of the transport mechanism on playa sequences, late Pleistocene-Holocene period in Jazmurian Playa, southern Iran. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 15, 653.

Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Enayati, A., Salehi Aghdam, J., Bahrehvar, M., Rezaei, S.M., 2024. Platform evolution in an Oligo-Miocene back-arc basin: an example from the Central Iran Basin. Acta Geologica Sinica 98(1), 185-206.

Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Ćorić,S., , Wolfgring, E., Wagreich, M., 2025. Calcareous nannofossils, stable isotopes, and cyclostratigraphy of the upper Qom Formation (Burdigalian, Central Iran): implications for paleoclimate and paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 676. 113171.

Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Schӧpfer, K., Gier, S., Vasiliev, I., Wagreich, M., 2026. The stepwise closure of the Tethyan Seaway in the Burdigalian (Early Miocene): A multiproxy sequence stratigraphic approach (Qom Basin, Iran). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 299. 106971