Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation Seminar Series: Dr Nader Naderpajouh – The University of Sydney
Title: Organizing for Resilience of Communities and their Infrastructure Systems
ABSTRACT: There is a growing concern over the frequent observation of shocks and stressors such as social unrests, political instabilities, climate crisis, or the more recent example of a global pandemic. 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 seminar, these actions are explored at the nexus of communities and their infrastructure systems. The discussion starts from an example of research on how communities interact with infrastructure development, and then continues on how they govern, maintain, or even drive and shape their infrastructure systems. To instigate further discussions, a multi-level conceptual framework will be presented for the concept of resilience.
Bio – Dr Nader Naderpajouh is a Senior Lecturer, Director of Research Education and Post Graduate Coordinator at the University of Sydney, while he leads the Organising for Resilience in the Built Environment research group (ORIBE). He is as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management in Engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Built Environment Project and Asset Management (BEPAM), several Editorial Boards including the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM) and serves as a referee for 27 academic journals. His main research area is organizing for resilience across the communities and their built environment. His portfolio of research includes 19 research grants (total of AU$13,547,473), among them research projects funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 scheme, Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre (FFCRC), RICS Research Trust, Arup, Victorian Building Authority (VBA), and Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works (QDHPW). His work has received several recognitions including the 2019 Malcom Moore Industry Research Award, the 2019 RMIT Europe Fellowship, the 2016 and 2020 best paper honorable mention by the Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE), the 2018 Emerald Literati Award Highly Commended Paper, and the Third Mondialogo Engineering Award by UNESCO and DaimlerAG (2009). He has also received the 2016 and 2017 outstanding reviewer award by the Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE), the 2018 outstanding reviewer award by Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, and the outstanding graduate student (2009) as well as three teaching awards at Purdue University (2008, 2009, 2012).
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