Dr. Fatemeh Shayan is an assistant professor of international relations at University of Isfahan (UI), Iran. She is the winner of the 2019 Farabi International Award and the 2024 best researcher at University of Isfahan. She was also selected as a distinguished researcher at UI in December 2023. Earlier, she was a post-doctoral scholar at University of Tampere (UTA), Finland. She completed her doctoral study in the Faculty of Management at UTA, and defended her dissertation in December 2014. She has published many academic publications in international ISI journals such as Energy Strategy Review, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Geopolitics. She was also a researcher at UTA during 2013-2014. Her latest books, Security in the Persian Gulf Region, was published by Palgrave McMillan in London in 2017; and Gas Troika on the European Gas Market by Walter De Gruyter in Boston in 2023. She was a visiting scholar at University of Exeter, UK; University of Oslo, Norway; Plekhanov and Lomonosov Universities, Moscow; and FINEC University, Russia. Her research areas include energy policies, natural gas, European Union energy issues, Russia, Iran and Qatar energy issues, and Persian Gulf security complex. She can be contacted at f.shayan@ase.ui.ac.ir.