Hassanali Vahedi

Hassanali Vahedi is interested in Nature and specially Entomology from an early age. He started on his PhD in 1998 on Scale insect at Imperial College, University of London,under the supervison of Dr, C.J. Hodgson and He received his PhD degree in 2001. Between 1993 and the present, he has been working at the Department of Plant Protection, Agricultural college, Razi University. He does research in Entomology, (Scale insect) and biological control. Vahedi, H. A. 2002. A revision of the genus Porphyrophora (Hem.: Coccoidea: Margarodidae) with particular reference to the Middle East and with a discussion of the relationships of the hypogaeic margarodids. Ph.D. thesis, Imperial College, University of London. Their current project is 'Survey of Diaspididae in South of Iran'.