Bakhtiar Feizizadeh is an associate professor at the University of Tabriz, Iran. He is also a visiting professor affiliated with the applied GIScience Lab at Humboldt-Universität zu, Berlin. His research interests include methodological issues related to GIS spatial analysis, GIS-MCDA, remote sensing, and image processing for environmental mapping, natural hazard mapping, urban planning, and related topics. He has published more than 180 scientific publications in international journals and events (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y9Vu6rMAAAAJ&hl=en).