Milad Zamanifar (PhD)- scientific advisor
General Information
Identification Code: 071433849004-65
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/milad-zamanifar
Entity Form: self-employed individual
Registration Category: Self-employed individuals
Registration Date: 2/10/2023
Last Update: 1/29/2024
Mission & Interests
Goals: As a senior scientific advisor, author, and university lecturer, I am currently engaged with clients in Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East working on UN, EU, and World Bank-funded projects at advisory, technical supervisory, and training/capacity-building levels.
The scope of the involved thematic areas covers critical infrastructure climate resilience, decision analysis and preference elicitation, urban disaster risk management, transport asset management, sustainable construction, hazard and climate change risk assessment, and climate innovation for adaptation. The goal is to contribute in increasing resilience of critical infrastructures and sociotechnical systems against climate change and natural or sociocultural hazards, through publications, and being invited to Commission expert groups
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
- Climate action
- Environment
- Humanitarian aid and civil protection
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
Levels of Interest:
- european
- global
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: "DIRECTIVE (EU) 2022/2557 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 December 2022 on the resilience of critical entities and repealing Council Directive 2008/114/EC
Being appointed a member of a Commission expert group (INNOVATION FUND EXPERT GROUP) and other activities such as publications and position papers for instance:
Communication Activities: Zamnaifar M., (2022) Low-Volume Roads in South Asia: A Marginalized Lifeline. Invited opinion, ADPC CARE for South Asia, the quarterly project update publication. https://www.adpc.net/igo/contents/Publications/publications-Details.asp?pid=1820&t=
Zamanifar M, (2021), Is Climate Change Wholly to Blame for Disasters? Crisis Response Journal, 16:3, p.18 London, UK. https://crisis-response.com/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=618551
Zamanifar M, (2021) The Right Track for Climate-resilient Road Infrastructure, (Interview), http://sar-climate.adpc.net/index.php/2022/11/04/the-right-track-for-climate-resilient-road-infrastructure
Zamanifar M, (in preparation), Lifeline Disaster Resilience: Do Social Variables Matter?
Zamanifar M, Hartmann T, (2021), A Prescriptive Framework for Recommending Decision Attribute of Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Problems, Journal of Environment Systems & Decisions, 41(4), 633-650.
Zamanifar M, Ungureanu L, (under review), CARPET: Cardinal Automated Ranked-based Preference Elicitation Technique, Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems.
Zamanifar M, Hartmann T, (2021), Decision Attributes for Disaster Recovery Planning of Transportation Networks; A case study, Journal of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. Volume 93, 102771, Elsevier.
Zamanifar M, Hartmann T, (2020), Optimization-based Decision Models for Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction Planning of Transport Networks, Journal of Natural Hazards, Vol. 104, P. 1-25, Springer.
Zamanifar M, Seyyedhosseiny S.M, (2017) Recovery Planning Model for Roadway Networks after Natural Hazards, Journal of Natural Hazards, Springer, vol. 87(2), P.699-716.
Zamanifar M, Pouryari M, Ahadi M, (2014) Estimation Model of Reconstruction Cost and Traffic Functionality of Road Transportation Lifelines After Disasters, International Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 2, (1), P. 67-80.
Zamanifar M, (2022), Disaster Recovery Planning of Transportation Networks: Problem Structuring and Decision Attributes, Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, Technical Universität Berlin, Germany https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-16150
Zamanifar M, Hartmann T, (2021), Decision Attributes for Disaster Recovery Planning of Transportation networks; A case study, Journal of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. Volume 93, 102771, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102771
Zamanifar M, (2023), Climate Resilience of Road Sector in Nepal: Charge on All Fronts, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. Project deliverable (8.1) for “Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CARE) for South Asia”. ADPC, Bangkok, Thailand.
Zamanifar M, (2022), Flood Fragility Functions of Road and Bridges, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. Project deliverable (8.1) for “Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CARE) for South Asia”. ADPC, Bangkok, Thailand.
Zamanifar M, (2022), Climate Resilience Benchmarking Framework for Road Infrastructures, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. Project deliverable (7.2) for “Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CARE) for South Asia”. ADPC, Bangkok, Thailand.
Zamanifar M, (2022), A Technical note on Resilient Concepts and Definitions in Road Infrastructure Context, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. Project deliverable (7.1) for “Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CARE) for South Asia”. ADPC, Bangkok, Thailand.
Zamanifar M, (2022), Recommendations for Regional Systemic Criticality Assessment in the Transport Sector: A Technical note, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. Project deliverable (6.1) for “Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CARE) for South Asia”. ADPC, Bangkok, Thailand.
Zamanifar M, (2022), Climate Vulnerability Concept in Critical Infrastructure Context, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. Project deliverable (5.1a) for “Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CARE) for South Asia”. ADPC, Bangkok, Thailand.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Kronenburggasse, 25
City: Erfurt
Country: GERMANY
Phone:
Indic Phone: 49
Phone Number: 15225772068
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Address: Kronenburggasse, 25
City: Erfurt
Country: GERMANY
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Indic Phone: 49
Phone Number: 15225772068
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Other Source Info: Research and technical advisory for NGOs
Lectures at universities
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Total Budget: 1200000
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Membership Information
Members25 Percent: 1
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.25
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Structure Type: Structure
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