Dr Raziyeh Farmani
Senior Lecturer
Extension: 3630
Telephone: 01392 723630
Dr Farmani is a senior lecturer based in the Centre for Water Systems at Exeter University. She has led Exeter’s contribution to several projects funded by EPSRC, the British Council and the EU.
Her interests span urban water systems, water resources management and asset management and she has particular expertise in multi-objective optimisation of water networks. She has been publishing in international refereed journals and conferences in the following areas which constitute her research interests: Bayesian networks, Participatory integrated assessment under uncertainty, Adaptive water resources management, Evolutionary optimisation, water supply and distribution systems, irrigation, optimum design, operation, rehabilitation and management of urban water systems, reliability and water quality, constraint handling and multiobjective optimisation.
She is currently leading research in two EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment consortia. ReVISIONs explores the inter-relationships between water, energy, transport and waste infrastructure policies and development plans and Urban Futures establishes and assesses the viability and resilience of alternative water infrastructure solutions for different futures in terms of design, operation and implementation.
Prior to this work, she was involved in a European project on new approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty (NeWater). She collaborated with several organizations under this project on research applied to problems with complex combinations of ecological, economic and socio-political factors that occur in water resources management under climate and global changes. Her research focus was on environmental system dynamics, adaptive management with emphasis on developing methods in participatory integrated assessment (using Evolutionary Bayesian belief networks) for guiding step by step adaptive decision making process under uncertainty. The developed methodologies were applied to water demand management, ground water contamination and flood plain management.
A PhD studentship is available for entry in 2012/2013. Applicants are invited to submit their interest on any of the above research topic areas for possible consideration for this PhD scholarship. The successful candidate will work closely with Dr Raziyeh Farmani. For further information please conatct Dr Raziyeh Farmani, r.farmani@exeter.ac.uk
