Dr. Mohajer (Ph.D., D.I.C., P.Geo.) has been a research scientist and an adjunct professor in the area of hazard assessment and risk management at University of Toronto since 1986. With a breadth of both domestic and international experience he has served as a scientific adviser and consultant to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Ontario Hydro, and Ontario Power Generation, and other utility companies abroad since 1975. He has investigated earthquake destruction impacts in various cities and towns around the world particularly in the Middle East, in Japan, and in North and Central America.

He has published over 60 research papers published in scientific journals and prepared more than 100 technical reports for the government agencies as a consultant in addition to popular science articles published in national Newspapers.

After the Bam, Iran, earthquake of December 2003 that killed about 30,000 people, he formed a volunteer committee that successfully organized a fundraising event that lead to building of a school during the reconstruction phase of Bam. After south Asian Earthquake/Tsunami disaster of December 2004 he initiated several fundraising events on behalf of the Red Cross. Dr. Mohajer is member of a steering committee working on “Universities and Global Responsibilities: University of Toronto Response to the Tsunami Crisis.”

His professional and academic distinctions include; Thomas Roy Award of the Canadian Geotechnical Society in 1991, and membership of the Governing Council of the International Seismological Centre. Dr. Mohajer has been a founding member of the Association of Geoscientists of Ontario, helped in preparation of the Professional Geoscientists Act that passed by the provincial parliament in 2000, served as a first councillor of this Association from 2000 to 2004. He has made presentations to the Energy and Environment Committee of the Canadian Senate as an expert witness, and provided technical testimony to various public hearings, news media coverage in Canada and abroad.