Kaveh Madani

Kaveh Madani holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis, Master of Water Resources from the Lund University, and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tabriz. Before joining the Imperial College London, he was an assistant professor of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where he founded and directed the Hydro-Environmental & Energy Systems Analysis (HEESA) Research Group. Prior to that, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in Environmental Economics and Policy at the Water Science and Policy Center at the University of California, Riverside.

His core research interests and experiences include integrated water, environmental, and energy resources engineering and management. His work includes application of systems engineering, conflict resolution, system dynamics, economics, optimization, and simulation and modeling methods to water, environmental, and energy resource problems at different scales to derive policy and management insights. He is the founder of WaterSISWEB and has been involved in a range of research projects at regional and international levels, including estimating climate change effects on water resource systems and developing climate change adaptation strategies for California, flood management and control in California, watershed restoration and water quality management in Florida, hydropower licensing, sustainable water transfers and watershed management, developing management institutions for sustainable management of common pool resources, groundwater management and regulation, and resolution of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Jordan River, Nile River, and Caspian Sea conflicts. He has been recently selected as one of the ten “New Faces of Civil Engineering in 2012” by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Address: Imperial College London