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CV Dr. Zahra Kalantari

Stockholm University

Dept. of Physical Geography

Svante Arrheniusväg 8C, SE-106 91 Stockholm

Date of Birth: 05/01/1979

Phone: +46 (0)70 718 0118

Email: zahra.kalantari@natgeo.su.se

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SHORT RESUME

Principal Investigator and Project Manager in a number of prestigious national and EU projects and author of numerous reports on applied research, consultancy projects and scientific papers. Expertise in collaborative research with stakeholders, authorities and decision makers such as Swedish Transport Administration (TRV), Tillväxt- och regionplaneförvaltningen – SLL, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGU), Swedish Forest Agency and SMHI. Active collaboration with researchers in Europe, North America, Eastern Africa, and Middle East and regularly convenes planning and management sessions at EGU meetings. Broad interest in the areas of: combination of science and application to manage current and mitigate future water related impacts on transport infrastructure; adaptive land-use planning for decision support and sustainable urban development and smart cities.

EDUCATION

2014 PhD, Land and Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

2006 MSc, Water Resources and Environment, Lund University, Sweden

CURRENT POSITIONS

2016-today Senior Research Scientist, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University.

2016-today Research Area Co-Leader, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Sweden.

2017-today Lecturer, Stockholm University, Sweden

2009-today Guest lecturer, KTH, Sweden

POSITIONS HELD

2014-2016 Post-doctoral fellowship, Department of Urban and Regional Planning University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US

2014-2015 Technical expert, for big infrastructure projects (E4 The Stockholm bypass –Förbifart Stockholm and East Link project – Ostlänken), ÅF Consultancy, Sweden (50%)

2009-2014 PhD Student, Land and Water Resources Engineering, KTH, Sweden

2008-2009 Project Manager, Dublin Port Expansion project, Newhaven Strategic Planning, River Dee Estuary to Irish Sea, Royal Haskoning, UK

2006-2008 Numerical Modeller, 2012 Olympic Park Design project, Burohappold Limited, UK

SELECTED ONGOING REASEARCH PROJECTS

- Collaborative land-sea integration platform –COASTAL (2018-2022): H2020 project to improve rural-coastal synergies in strategic business and policy decision making and collaboration between coastal and rural actors. Role: Scientist

- Water Monitoring Networks IoT – iWater (2016-2019): Pilot study development of a real time monitoring system in the whole life cycle of the city’s water supply. Role: Principal Investigator

- The regional development plan for the Stockholm region (2016-2019) with Tillväxt- och regionplaneförvaltningen, TRF. Role: Principal Investigator

- Scoping for resilience and management of Arctic wetlands (2017-2018), with Swedish Ministry of the Environment and Energy, SEI and Swedish EPA. Role: Principal Investigator

- Climate-change effects on the epidemiology of infectious diseases and the impacts on northern societies (2016-2019). Role: Scientist

- Formas project about quantifying the influence of various land uses and/or management strategies on the hydrologic impacts of high flows and other extreme weather events, under current and future climatic conditions, on transport infrastructure in Sweden (2014-2019). Role: Project manager and principal investigator

RESEARCH GRANTS

Sum of external research grants SEK 12,339,000 of which awarded as principal investigator: SEK 5,576,000

Co-PI of ‘COASTAL – Collaborative land-Sea integration platform’, Funded by EU- H2020, 2018-2022. Total budget around 5 M Euros

Project coordinator of ‘Landscape analysis and climate change’, funded by Swedish Government - Strategic Research Area Funds, 2018-2022. SEK 1,376,000

Principal investigator of ‘Nature-Based Solutions for Flood-Drought Risk Mitigation in Vulnerable Urbanizing Regions’. Planning funds for interdisciplinary research initiatives, 2018-2019. SEK 100,000

Principal investigator of ‘Sustainable urban-regional development and watershed planning in Stockholm region’. Funded by Stockholm County (SLL), 2018-2019.SEK 400,000

Project coordinator of ’uantifying the influence of various land uses and/or management strategies on the hydrological impacts of high flows and other extreme weather events, under current and future climate conditions, funded by Formas, 2015-2018. SEK 3,000,000

Co-PI of ‘Water Monitoring Networks – iWater’, funded by Vinnova, 2015-2017.SEK 1,500,000

Co-PI of ‘Scoping for Resilience and Management of Arctic Wetlands’, by the Swedish Ministry of Environment and Energy through Formas. 2017-2018. SEK 263,800

Principal investigator of ‘Ecosystem services supply and beneficiaries in the landscape’, funded by KVA, 2015-2016. SEK 500,000

Principal investigator for ‘Watershed dynamics and connectivity index’, funded by ECOST action 1306, EU, 2015. SEK 200,000

EDUCATIONAL RECORD

▪ Supervision and leadership qualification (2017) Faculty of Science, Stockholm University, Sweden.

▪ Supervisor of more than 20 MSc students on a variety of topics related to hydrological modelling, climate change and land use change impacts on hydrological response, integrating water in urban and regional planning, climate change adaptation and mitigation measures.

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

▪ Member of the Board and Steering Committee of European COST Action – CONNECTEUR ; Land4Flood ; DAMOCLES

▪ Member of the Board and the Steering Committee of Mistra Urban Futures node in Stockholm

▪ Member of the Scientific Committee for Nature-Based Solutions and Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction hosted by PEDRR

▪ Guest Editor of special issues on: “Nature-Based Solutions” at Land Degradation and Development (IF: 9.787); “Human Impacts on soil health and quality” at The science of the total environment (IF: 5.1); “Liveable cities: current environmental challenges and paths for urban sustainability” at Journal of Environmental Management (IF: 4.7); “Wetlands and Their Roles in the Ecohydrological Cycle under Global Climate Change” at Water (IF: 2.069)

▪ Reviewer for many international scientific journal

▪ Member of EGU and Regular convener of several sessions at EGU meetings

▪ Member of review panels to evaluate project proposals in Sweden (Vinnova, 2016; Bolin Center; 2016,2017)

▪ Invited key notes and seminars at international conferences and universities in Italy (Padova, 2015), Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, 2015), UK (London, 2016), Iran (Tehran, 2016), Austria (Vienna, 2017), Spain (Barcelona, 2018).

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

▪ Convener and Chairperson of more than 7 scientific sessions, for both Hydrological Science and Soil Science divisions, at the General Assembly of European Geoscience Union (EGU), from 2014 to 2018.

▪ Workshop Conductor on “Ecosystem services supply and beneficiaries in the landscape” with Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

▪ Member of the Scientific Committee for Stockholms universitets hållbarhetsforum - Framtidens energi och resurser

▪ Workshop Conductor on “Future water” and “Future Cities” at Stockholms universitets hållbarhetsforum

OTHERS

Language skills: Persian (native), English (fluent), Swedish (fluent), Arabidc (basic)

Social skills: Long term experience in living in different countries and adapting to different cultures and living standards

Publication List:

1) Pan H, Deal B, Destouni G, Zhang Y, Kalantari Z (2018) Sociohydrology modeling for complex urban environments in support of integrated land and water resource management practices. Land Degradation and Development, 1–14. 2018. https:// 10.1002/ldr.3106,   

2) Goldenberg R, Kalantari Z, Destouni G. (2018) Increased access to nearby green–blue areas associated with greater metropolitan population wellbeing. Land Degradation and Development, 1–10, 2018 (in press). ,      

3) Kalantari, Z., Ferreira, C. S. S., Keesstra, S., & Destouni, G. (2018). Nature-based solutions for flood-drought risk mitigation in vulnerable urbanizing parts of East-Africa. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 5, 73-78.

4) Ferreira, C. S. S., Pereira, P., & Kalantari, Z. (2018). Human impacts on soil. Science of The Total Environment, 644, 830-834.

5) Ahlmer, A.-K., Cavalli, M., Hansson, K., Koutsouris, A. J., Crema, S., Kalantari, Z. (2018). Soil moisture remote-sensing applications for identification of flood-prone areas along transport infrastructure. Environmental Earth Sciences, 77(14), 533.

6) Groß, E., Mård, J., Kalantari, Z., Bring, A (2018). LINKS BETWEEN NORDIC AND ARCTIC HYDROCLIMATE AND VEGETATION CHANGES AS POSSIBLE LANDSCAPE-SCALE NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS. Land Degradation & Development (in press).

7) Keesstra, S.D., Nunes, J.P., Finger, D., Avelar, D., Kalantari, Z., and Cerdà, A. 2017. The superior effect of nature based solutions in land management for enhancing ecosystem services. Science of The Total Environmen 610–611: 997-1009. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.077

8) Thorslund, J., . . . Kalantari, Z., . . . and Destouni, G. (2017). "Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions: Status and challenges for research, engineering and management." Ecological Engineering.

9) Kalantari, Z., Ferreira, C.S.S., Walsh, R.P.D., Ferreira, A.J.D. and Destouni, G. 2017. Urbanization development under climate change: Hydrological responses in a peri-urban Mediterranean catchment. Land Degradation and Development, doi: 10.1002/ldr.2747.

10) Goldenberg, R., Kalantari, Z. et al. 2017. Distinction, quantification and mapping of potential and realized supply-demand of flow-dependent ecosystem services. Science of the Total Environment 593-594; 599-609

11) Karlsson, C. S. J., Kalantari, Z., Mörtberg, U., Olofsson, B., & Lyon, S. W. 2017. Natural Hazard Susceptibility Assessment for Road Planning Using Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis. Environmental Management, 60(5), 823-851. doi:10.1007/s00267-017-0912-6.

12) Di Baldassarre, G., Martinez, F., Kalantari, Z. and Viglion, A. 2017. Drought and floods in the Anthropocene: Modelling feedback mechanisms. Earth System Dynamics 8, 225-233. doi:10.5194/esd-8-225-2017, 2017

13) Kalantari, Z., Khoshkar, S., Falk, H., Cvetkovick, V. and Mörtberg., U. 2017. Accessibility of water-related cultural ecosystem services through public transport—a model for planning support in the Stockholm Region. Sustainability 9(3), 346; doi:10.3390/su9030346

14) Kalantari, Z., Cavalli, M., Cantone, C., Crema, S. and Destouni G. 2017. Flood probability quantification for road infrastructure: Data-driven spatial-statistical approach and case study applications. Science of the Total Environment 581-582; 386-398.

15) Michielsen, A., Kalantari, Z., Lyon, S.W. and Liljegren, E. 2016. Predicting modelling and communicating flood risk of transport infrastructure based on watershed characteristics. Journal of Environmental Management 182: 505-518. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.07.051

16) Mörtberg, U., Goldenberg, R., Kalantari, Z., Kordas, O., Deal, B. and Balfors, B. 2016. Integrating ecosystem services in the assessment of urban energy trajectories - A study of the Stockholm Region Energy Policy. Journal of Energy Policy. 100:338-49. doi: .

17) Kalantari, Z., Lyon, S.W., Jansson, P-E., Stolte, J., French, H.K., Folkeson, L. and Sassner, M. 2015. Modeller subjectivity and calibration impacts on hydrological model applications: An event-based comparison for a road-adjacent catchment in south-east Norway, Science of the Total Environment 502: 315-329.

18) Kalantari, Z., Nickman, A., Lyon, S.W., Olofsson, B. and Folkeson, L. 2014. A method for mapping flood hazard along roads. Journal of Environmental Management 133, 69-77.

19) Kalantari, Z., Lyon, S.W., Folkeson, L., French, H.K., Stolte, J., Jansson, P-E. and Sassner, M. 2014. Quantifying the hydrological impact of simulated changes in land use on peak discharge in a small catchment. Science of the Total Environment 466-467, 741-754.

20) Kalantari, Z., Briel, A., Lyon, S.W., Olofsson, B. and Folkeson, L. 2014. On the utilization of hydrological modelling for road drainage design under climate and land use change. Science of the Total Environment 475, 97-103.

21) Kalantari, Z. and Folkeson, L. 2013. Road drainage in Sweden: Current practice and suggestions for adaptation to climate change. Journal of Infrastructure Systems (ASCE) 19(2), 147-156. (ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000119

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