Reza Ghaderi is a plant nematologist at Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, who wor ked especially on the taxonomy of the families Dolichodoridae and Tylenchulidae. He received his BSc in plant protection at Tabriz University in 2004. He tooka n MSc in Plant Pathology (Nematology) in 2007 and completed his PhD in Nematolog y at Shiraz University, Iran in 2014.