Dr. Dawod Rasooli Keya is an Assistant Professor of Soil and Water Conservation at the Department of Plant Production. He received his PhD in 2020 from the Salahaddin University- Erbil (SUE). In 2009 he joined the Erbil Polytechnic University, where he served as a lecturer in the Department of Crop Production and researcher.

His research is situated in the field of Soil Conservation, Estimating Soil Erosion, Rainfall Characteristics, Evapotranspiration (ETo), and Crop Water Requirements. His main research interests include the Erosivity index and rainfall energy measurement (REM).

Dawod teaches several courses on Fundamentals of Plane Surveying, Basic of Soil Sciences and Soil Fertility, Irrigation Systems, Computer Essentials, Watershed Management, and Landscape Engineering. Dawod also presented seminars and symposiums on soil and water sciences for academics and professionals in collaboration with EPU.

He has published 7 books on soil and water sciences in Kurdish and English.