SPEAKER：Dr. Nader Naderpajouh, Associate Professor, Head of School of Project Management at The University of Sydney

TIME/DATE：2024年10月25日10:00-11:30

CLASSROOM：同济大厦A楼309室

ABSTRACT：

There is a growing concern over the frequent observation of shocks and stressors such as social unrests, geo-political instabilities, pandemics, and climate crisis. In response, researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in the topic of resilience to understand the ability of ecological, social, and technical systems to function despite predictable and unknown changes. In this context, organizing for resilience is defined as the actions to plan, absorb, recover or adapt to the variations in the performance of the systems under different conditions. In this talk, these actions are explored at the nexus of communities and their infrastructure systems.

GUEST BIO：

Dr Naderpajouh is Head of School of Project Management, where he also leads the “Organising for Resilience” research lab. His main area of research focuses on collective action and organising across social, technical and ecological systems. He serves as an Associate Editor for journals including the Journal of Management in Engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and as a member of the Editorial Board of journals including the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM), while he serves as a referee for over 30 academic journals. Dr Naderpajouh leads the research pillar on “projects in the face of climate change” at the Net Zero Initiative (NZI), is a member of the Sydney Environment Institute, and the founding member of the research stream on “projects for sustainable, resilient and just future” at the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership.

His portfolio of research grants, totaling close to A$16M, includes projects funded by the European Commission through Horizon 2020 program, Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre (FFCRC), Arup, Natural Hazard Research Australia, CSIRO and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Research Trust. His works have also received several recognitions, among them the 2019 RMIT Europe Fellowship, the 2019 Malcom Moore Industry Research Award, the 2016 and 2020 best paper honourable mention from the Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE), the 2018 Emerald Literati Award Highly Commended Paper, and the Bronze medal in the Third Mondialogo Engineering Award by UNESCO and DaimlerAG (2009). In addition, his contributions as a referee have been recognised by the 2016 and 2017 outstanding reviewer award from the Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE), and the 2018 outstanding reviewer award from the Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety (RESS). He has also initiated and served as a guest editor for four special issues on different aspects of resilience in the Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE), the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM), and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Dr Naderpajouh is actively engaged with research communities, industry partners and government agencies across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, USA, UK, Middle East and Asia through educating practitioners, advising and mentoring future scholars, assisting communities, and consulting industry partners and government agencies. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, he has worked as a Senior Lecturer (and before that as a Lecturer) at RMIT University (2016-2021), RMIT Europe Fellow (2019), Adjunct Professor at the University of Tehran (2017), Visiting Assistant Professor (2014-2016) and Post-Doctoral Scholar (2013-2014) both at Purdue University. His professional experience includes working for a multi-national joint venture in underground construction with Jäger Bau GmbH of Austria, as well as working as a member of a structural design team in mid/high-rise buildings. He holds a PhD from Purdue University, a MSc from Iran University of Science and Technology, and a BSc from Isfahan University of Technology, all in Civil Engineering. He is passionate about the discourse of social justice and equity, in addition to the climate crisis, and these values are foundational in his active research on the topics of resilience, collective action, innovation and infrastructure management.