Dr.-Ing. Asad Asadzadeh
Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation
Nußallee 1
53115 Bonn
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Function
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Research interest
Climate change adaptation
Risk and resilience assessment
Inclusive urban resilience
Urban governance and planning
Academic Background
Oct.2011 – Dec. 2016
PhD in Urban Planning and Land Management, University of Bonn, Germany, with the topic of “Conceptualizing the Concept of Disaster Resilience: A Hybrid Approach in the Context of Earthquake Hazard”
Sep.2005 - Feb. 2008
M.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Tehran with the final thesis title “Social Empowerment and Physical Improvement of Informal Settlements in the Context of Earthquake Hazard”, Tehran, Iran
Feb.1999 - Jan. 2004
B.Sc. in Geography and Urban Planning from University of Tabriz with the final thesis title “The Impact of Inefficient Industrial locations on Urban Air Pollution” Tabriz, Iran
Scientific career
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG), Urban Planning & Land Management Group, University of Bonn, Germany
Jun - Dec. 2018
Project coordinator and proposal developer, Institute of Rescue Engineering and Civil Protection, TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Oct. 2011 - Dec. 2016
PhD candidate and researcher, department of urban planning & land management, University of Bonn, Germany
Research projects
Feb 2021 – Jan 2025
INCREASE - Inclusive and Integrated Multi-Hazard Risk Management and Engagement of Volunteers to INCREASE Societal Resilience in Times of Changing Climates (principal investigator from the University of Bonn)
Jan – Dec 2018
INCOR - Basic Infrastructures and Services for Enhancing Inclusive Community Disaster Resilience (project coordinator)
Oct 2015 – Sep 2017
Stress Test Cities - how resilient are our cities – funded by the Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (research assistant)
July 2013 – June 2016
Seismic Resilient City (2013-2016) – Conceptualization of the Concept of Community Disaster Resilience (PhD thesis)
Lecture
Lecturer on “urban development” in the graduate program “Geodesy and Geoinformation” (BSc, MSc) at University of Bonn
Lecturer on “spatial decision support system (SDSS)” in the graduate program “Geodesy and Geoinformation” (MSc) at University of Bonn
Lecture on “resilience of transportation systems in disaster situations” the graduate program “Geoinformation and Spatial Development” (MSc) at University of Bonn
Publications
2022:
Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T., Fekete, A., Moghadas, M., Alizadeh, M., Zebardast, E., Weiss, D., Basirat, M., & Hutter, G. (2022). Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran. Cities, 125(June), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103642
2021
Alizadeh, M., Zabihi, H., Rezaie, F., Asadzadeh, A., Wolf, I. D., & Langat, P. K. (2021). Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment for Urban Areas Using an ANN and Hybrid SWOT-QSPM Model. Remote Sensing, 13(22), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13224519
Katman, P., Salehi, Pourya., Jones, Amy., Asadzadeh, Asad., (2021) The Role of Smart Cities in Building the Resilience of Vulnerable Communities: Three case studies from Europe, Asia, and Africa, in Resilient Smart Cities - Theoretical and Empirical Insights, Springer (Chapter 18), to be published April 2022
2020
Fekete. A, Asadzadeh. A, Ghafory-Ashtiany. M, Amini-Hosseini. K, Hetkäamper. C, Moghadas. M, Ostadtaghizadeh. A, Kötter. T (2020) Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities, International journal of Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101635
Asadzadeh, A (2020). On the need for transformative approaches for urban governance and planning systems to face natural and climatic hazards and the associated challenges, 12th Festival of Research & Innovation in Urban Management; Tehran Urban Forum (TUF), December 12-16 Tehran, Iran, pp 18-21
Asadzadeh. A, Weiss. D, Kötter. T (2020) The geographies of urban resilience in German large cities, in Reicher. C, Bayro-Kaiser. F, Kataikko-Grigoleit. P, Müller. S, Polivka. J (Eds.) Urban integration: from walled city to integrated city, LIT VERLAG GmbH & Co. KG Wien, pp. 33-37
2019
M. Moghadas, A. Asadzadeh, A. Vafeidis, A. Fekete, T. Kötter (2019) A multi-criteria approach for assessing urban flood resilience in Tehran, Iran, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101069
Fekete. A, Asadzadeh. A (2019) Opportunities for Strengthening the German Contributions to the Sendai Framework, the SDGs, and the New Urban Agenda, in Fehn. K, Fekete. A, Hetkämper. C, Lechleuthner. A, Norf. C (Eds.) INCOR Basic Infrastructures and Services for Enhancing Inclusive Community Disaster Resilience in Iran, Integrative Risk and Security Research, 2/2019, ISSN: 2366-4029, Cologn, pp. 54-61
Fekete. A., Asadzadeh. A., Moghadas, M (2019) INCOR Basic Infrastructures and Services for Enhancing Inclusive Community Disaster Resilience in Iran. Final report of the definition phase, Final report of the definition phase. Integrative Risk and Security Research, 2/2019, 64 pages.
2018
Asadzadeh. A, Moghadas. M, Kötter. T, Fekete. A (2018) Bridging the gap between stakeholder requirements and technical needs in community resilience measurement, abstract published in 11th International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) Congress, Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience, December 10-11-12, Barcelona, Spain
Moghadas. M, Fekete. A, Asadzadeh. A, Kötter. T (2018) A theoretical framework for building the risk-resilience of basic infrastructures and services using Open Data, abstract published in 11th International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) Congress, Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience, December 10-11-12, Barcelona, Spain
Moghadas. M, Fekete. A, Asadzadeh. A, Kötter (2018) Measuring urban disaster resilience: The context of flood hazard in city of Tehran, published in EGU General Assembly, Geophysical Research AbstractsVol. 20, EGU2018-148-2, April 2018, Viena , Austria
2017
Asadzadeh. A, Kötter. T, Salehi. P, Birkmann. J (2017) Operationalizing a concept: The systematic review of composite indicator building for measuring community disaster resilience, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.09.015
Asadzadeh. A, (2017) Conceptualizing the concept of disaster resilience: a hybrid approach in the context of earthquake hazard, PhD Thesis, University of Bonn, Germany, https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle/20.500.11811/1671
2016
Asadzadeh. A, Kötter. T, Weiss. D (2016) The multiscale patterns of urban disaster resilience, abstract published and oral presentation in the 6th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) 2016, Davos, Switzerland
Kötter. T, Weiss. D, Asadzadeh. A, (2016) Stress testing cities-how to live and plan with new risks, abstract published and oral presentation in the 6th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) 2016, Davos, Switzerland
Asadzadeh. A, Kötter. T, Weiss. D (2016) An inductive approach for developing disaster resilience indices, scientific poster presentation in INQUIMUS 21- 23. 9. 2016, spatial and temporal dynamics of risk and vulnerability, Salzburg | Austria
Kötter. T, Weiss. D, Asadzadeh. A (2016) Assessment of urban resilience - planning with new risks and challenges, scientific poster presentation in INQUIMUS 21- 23. 9. 2016, spatial and temporal dynamics of risk and vulnerability, Salzburg | Austria
2015
Asadzadeh. A, Kötter. T, Zebardast. E (2015) An augmented approach for measuring disaster resilience using hybrid factor analysis and analytic network analysis (F’ANP) model, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.10.002
Asadzadeh. A, Kötter. T (2015.) Towards urban sustainability via disaster resilience assessment: a new set of seismic resilience indicators, Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) Transactions on the Built Environment, Vol 168, p 963-974, https://doi.org/10.2495/SD150842
Sikdir. S.K, Asadzadeh. A, Kussanna. E, Mallick. B, Kötter. T (2015) Stakeholders participation for climate resilience: a case of informal settlements regularization in Khulna City, Bangladesh, Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, https://doi.org/10.37043/JURA.2015.7.1.1
2014
Asadzadeh. A, Sikder. S, Mahmoudi. F, Kötter. T (2014) Assessing site selection of new towns using TOPSIS method under Entropy logic: Case study of new towns of Tehran Metropolitan Region (TMR), Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v3i1.4874
