Pouya is a professor in the Department of Population Health and Reproduction at UCDavis, CA, USA, a Diplomate in the European College of Animal Reproduction and the American College of Theriogenology. Pouya obtained his first PhD in collaboration between Azad University and the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his second PhD in collaboration between the University of Ghent and the Gluck Equine Research Center at the University of Kentucky. His current research interests include the regulation of the pathophysiology of the equine placenta and the genomic level of the growing ICSI embryo. Pouya is also the director of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) laboratory in the School of Veterinary Medicine at UCDavis, which is both a distinguished research facility and a national embryo service provider for breeders and veterinarians.

Pouya is the chair of the Scientific Committee of the ISEOI and will contribute to the ISEOI, ESER-2026 & Embryo Transfer Course Lectures.