Pejman Abdolmohammadi (PhD) is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Trento’s School of International Studies and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at University of California-Berkeley in 2025-26. He was formerly a Resident Research Fellow at the London School of Economics – Middle East Centre (2015-2018) and a Lecturer in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University ‘John Cabot’ in Rome (2013-2015).
Since November 2019, he is the Coordinator of Jean Monnet European Project entitled ‘North Africa and Middle East Politics and EU Security’ (NAMEPES). His last book, entitled The Domestic and Foreign Policy of Modern Iran, has been published by Palgrave-McMillan in 2020.
As an Iranian-Italian Scholar, Prof. Abdolmohammadi is frequently interviewed by leading international media and his comments are cited by the International Weekly Newspaper The Economist. During the recent 12 days’ war between Iran and Israel, he has been the main scholar to be interviewed in Italian media.
