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Mahdiyeh Tabatabaei earned a BSc in Architectural Technology and an MSc in Architectural Engineering from IAU, along with an Engineering Skills License (Level 1) from the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, Iran. Her academic background is complemented by eight years of project supervision, four years of teaching at IAU campuses, and membership in Mandegar-Khesht-Argh-e-Azerbaijan, a building consulting firm.
She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. (Cycle 38), where her research employs ML to predict solar energy potentials through a case study in Bologna. As a Marco Polo Grant awardee, she conducted a four-month research stay in Singapore at SERIS, a solar energy research institute at NUS, specializing in PV technologies. Her passion for solar architecture is reflected in her contributions, including a chapter titled 'Analysis of Traditional Iranian Vernacular Architecture in Response to Sunlight: An Approach to Sustainable Development' in the forthcoming book Persian Vernacular Architecture: Lessons from Master Builders of Iran on Climate Resilient Design (ISBN: 978-981-96-1115-7), scheduled for publication by Springer Nature on March 2025.
