Parsa Arbab is Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran, School of Urban Planning, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Urban Planning in 2015. His leading research and teaching interests focus on PEP (People, Environment, and Place), aiming at liveliness in urban and regional planning and development. He has also collaborated as a visiting scientist with the PGM Department at the ITC Faculty of the University of Twente in 2020 and worked as a scientific supervisor of the Tehran Urban Research and Planning Center (TURPC) and the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture at the Tehran Municipality in recent years.