I am a multidisciplinary scientist with a foundation in theoretical physics and mathematics, currently a postdoctoral associate at the Terrer lab at MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. After earning my Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching under the supervision of Eiichiro Komatsu, I shifted my focus to studying global vegetation dynamics in the context of climate change at the Crowther Lab at ETH Zürich. My research uses long-term satellite images, ground observations, and novel mathematical methods to understand the effects of environmental changes on global vegetation dynamics, including growing season lengths, phenology, and the impact of forest cover changes on properties such as surface albedo, energy, and carbon fluxes on a global scale.

My partner is a semanticist at MIT's Department of Lingustics and Philosophy.

• Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential
  Lidong Mo, Constantin M Zohner, Peter B Reich, Jingjing Liang, Sergio De Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Susanne S Renner, Johan van den Hoogen, Arnan Araza, Martin Herold, Leila Mirzagholi, ..., and Thomas W. Crowther
  Published in Nature.

• Enhanced local cooling effects of forests across the globe
  William W. M. Verbiest, Gabriel Reuben Smith*, Leila Mirzagholi*, Thomas Lauber, Daniel S. Maynard, Constantin M. Zohner, Sebastian Schemm, and Thomas W. Crowther
  Under review, preprint on bioRxiv.
  * Corresponding authors, equal contribution.

• Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses at the summer solstice
  Constantin M. Zohner, Leila Mirzagholi, Susanne S. Renner, Lidong Mo, Raymo Bucher, Daniel Palous, Yann Vitasse, Yongshuo H. Fu, Benjamin D. Stocker, and Thomas W. Crowther
  Published in Science.

• Effects of gravitational Chern-Simons during Axion-SU(2) inflation
  Leila Mirzagholi, Eiichiro Komatsu, Kaloian D. Lozanov, and Yuki Watanabe
  Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

• Production and backreaction of fermions from Axion-SU(2) gauge fields during inflation
  Leila Mirzagholi, Azadeh Maleknejad, and Kaloian D. Lozanov
  Published in Physical Review D.

• Imperfect dark matter
  Leila Mirzagholi and Alexander Vikman
  Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.