Ali Mohtashami received his BSc in Civil Engineering from University of Isfahan in 2014. Then he was accepted to the University of Birjand from which he obtained his MSc in Civil Engineering, Water Resources Management in 2017 and then he got his PhD certificate from University of Sistan and Baluchestan in 2021 as under the supervision of Profs. Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared and Gholamreza Azizyan. His PhD thesis was on the application of data assimilation method in meshless local Petrov-Galerkin groundwater flow simulation model. During his PhD, He was awarded as the top student by University of Sistan and Baluchestan, faculty of Engineering. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in UNESCO chair of Aflaj studies Archaeohydrology (UCASA) at the University of Nizwa. He is a referee for more than 10 civil, water management and agricultural Journals. He has authored and co-authored over 20 scientific papers, two books and 2 research projects.