Dr Dawod Rasooli is Assistant Professor of Soil and Water Conservation in the Department of Crop Production. He received his Ph.D. in 2020 from Salahaddin University - Erbil (SUE). In 2009, he joined the Polytechnic University of Erbil, where he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Crop Production and as a researcher.
His research is in the field of soil conservation, estimation of soil erosion, rainfall characteristics, evapotranspiration (ETo) and crop water requirements. His main research interests include Erosivity Index and Rainfall Energy Measurement (REM). Dawod teaches several courses on Fundamentals of Plane Surveying, Fundamentals of Soil Science and Soil Fertility, Irrigation Systems, Computer Essentials, Watershed Management and Landscape Engineering. Dawod has also conducted seminars and symposia on Soil and Water Sciences for academics and professionals in collaboration with EPU. He has published 4 books on Soil and Water Science in Kurdish and English..