Farshid Talat had his BSc. degree in Agronomy and Plant Breeding from Urmia University in 1997, Iran and then earned MSc. degree in 1999 from Tehran University, Iran in Plant Breeding-Bioechnology. He earned his Ph.D from Chinese Academy of Sciences in the field of Biotechnology-Genome Sequencing in 2014.He was appointed as a research scientist of the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO) of Iran since 1999 till now and he has more than 80 papers in the field of plant breeding, plant architecture, biotechnilogy and bioinformatics and supervised more than 25 MSc students.

Dr.Farshid Talat’s research interests are statistical data analyses, genomics, genetics, plant breeding, biotechnology, bioinformatics and bio data analyses.