Education
1993-1999 Ph.D. in Civil and Geosciences Engineering, University
of Newcastle, Newcastle
upon Tyne, UK.
1988-1989 MSc. in Hydrology and Water Resources, University of
Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
1970-1974 B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Amir Kabir University
of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Additional Courses Taken
One-year, International Post Graduate Diploma Course in Hydrology,
International Institute of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE),
Delft, Netherlands, 1986-1987.
Ten weeks, International Course in Urban Drainage, held by Germany and the
Netherlands, Bangkok, Thailand, 1992.
Four weeks, International Course in River Engineering and Sediment, held by
China and the Netherlands, Tehran Polytechnic University, Tehran, Iran,
1990.
Two weeks, International Workshop in Climate and Water affairs, Skopje,
Macedonia, Held by Unesco and WMO, 2009
Occupational History
a) 1999-2023 Associate Professor
in Water & Environment Engineering, University of Science &
Technology. Tehran, Iran. Lecturing and teaching subjects such as Geography,
Geology, Climatology, Statistics & Probability, Meteorology, Engineering
Hydrology, Water & Wastewater Engineering, Mathematical Modelling in
Hydrology, Stochastic Modelling, Probabilistic Processes (Time series
Modelling) in Hydrology, Flood Control Engineering, Climate and Land use
Change Impact Assessment as well as Supervising numerous MSc & PhD
Projects and Dissertations.
b) 2006-2008 Advisor in Hydrology and Hydraulic
Design Projects, Iran Water and Power Development Company (IWPC).
c) 1992-1993 Director of Water Research Centre,
affiliated to the Ministry for Construction, Tehran, Iran. Managing various
departments such as Hydrology & Water Resources Engineering, Hydraulics
Engineering, Coastal Engineering, River Engineering, Instrumental
Engineering & Mathematical Modelling.
d) 1989-1992 Hydrological Researcher in Water
Research Centre, affiliated to the Ministry for Construction, Tehran, Iran.
Working as a team member in various research groups.
Publications
Books and Reports
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Water melody in the passage of time, Translation from Persian
into English, IRCOLD publication (2003).
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A Review of Solid Waste Management for Greater Tehran, SHWRU
Publication (2002), University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Journal Papers
Panahi, D.M., Blauhut, V., Raziei, T.& Zahabiyoun, B. (2023). Drought
vulnerability range assessment: A dynamic and impact driven method for
multiple vulnerable systems. International Journal of Disaster Risk
Reduction 91. 1-20.
Panahi, D.M., Destouni, G., Kalantari, Z. & Zahabiyoun, B. (2022).
Distinction of driver contributions to wetland decline and their associated
basin hydrology around Iran. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 42.
1-16.
Khazaei, M.R., Hasirchian, M., & Zahabiyoun, B. (2021). An improved
daily weather generator for the assessment of regional climate change
impacts. Theoretical and Applied Climatology (146). 475–487
Panahi, D.M., Tabas, S.S., Kalantari, Z., Ferreira, C.S.S., &
Zahabiyoun, B. (2021). Spatio-temporal assessment of global gridded
evapotranspiration datasets across Iran. Remote Sens., 13, 1816.
Khazaei, M.R., Zahabiyoun, B. & Hasirchian, M., (2020). A new method
for improving the performance of weather generators in reproducing
low‐frequency variability and in downscaling. International Journal of
Climatology. 1-16.
Dehghanipour, A.H., Schoups G., Zahabiyoun, B., & Babazadeh, H
(2020).
Meeting agricultural and environmental water demand in endorheic irrigated
river basins: A simulation-optimization approach applied to the Urmia Lake
basin in Iran. Agricultural Water Management (241). 1-15.
Khazaei, M.R., Zahabiyoun, & B. Hasirchian, M. (2020). Comparison of
IWG and SDSM weather generators for climate change impact assessment.
Theoretical and Applied Climatology (140). 859-870.
Rahimi, A., Zonoozi, M., Rahimi, R. and Zahabiyoun, B. (2020).
Photocatalytic activity of GO-doped bismuth-based photocatalyst for Methyl
Orange decolorization under visible light irradiation. DESALINATION AND
WATER TREATMENT (180). 360-369.
Dehghanipour, A.H., Zahabiyoun, B., Schoups G., & Babazadeh, H(2019).A
WEAP-MODFLOW surface water-groundwater model for the irrigated Miyandoab
plain, Urmia Lake basin, Iran: Multi-objective calibration and
quantification of historical drought impacts. Agricultural Water Management
(223), 1-21.
Zamanipour, M., Saadatpour M. and Zahabiyoun, B. (2018).
Simulation-Optimization Approach Based on Meta-Model in Optimal Design of
Inter-Basin Water Transfer System. Iran-Water Resources Research Volume
(IR-WRR) 14(1), 198-215.
Sadeghi-Tabas, S., Samadi, S.Z. and Zahabiyoun, B. (2017). Application of
Bayesian Algorithm in Continuous Streamflow Modeling of a Mountain
Watershed. European Water57(1), 101-108,
E.W. Publications.
Hajian, F., Dykes, A.P., Zahabiyoun, B. and Ibsenc, M. (2016). Prediction of
climate change effects on the runoff regime of a forested catchment in
northern Iran. HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL, VOL. 61, NO. 15, 2729–2739.
Khazaei, M. R., Zahabiyoun, B., Saghafian, B., & Ahmadi, S. (2014).
Development of an automatic calibration tool using genetic algorithm for
the ARNO conceptual rainfall-runoff model. Arabian Journal for Science and
Engineering, 39(4), 2535-2549.
Sharafati, A., & Zahabiyoun, B. (2014). Rainfall Threshold Curves
Extraction by Considering Rainfall-Runoff Model Uncertainty. Arabian
Journal for Science and Engineering, 39(10), 6835-6849.
Khazaei, M. R., Ahmadi, S., Saghafian, B., & Zahabiyoun, B. (2013). A
new daily weather generator to preserve extremes and low-frequency
variability. Climatic change, 119(3-4), 631-645.
Sharafati, A., Zahabiyoun, B.,
(2013). Stochastic generation of storm pattern. Life Science Journal 10,
1575-1583.
Zahabiyoun, B., Goodarzi, M.R., Massah Bavani, A.R., Azamathulla, H.M.,
(2013). Assessment of climate change impact on the Gharesou river basin
using SWAT hydrological model. Clean-Soil, Air, Water 41 (6), 601–609.
Zahabiyoun, B., Goodarzi, M. R., & Bavani, A. R. (2012). Simulation of
rainfall –runoff on Gharesou watershed using SWAT model. Science Series
Data Report. 4(1), 28-37.
Khazaei, M. R., Zahabiyoun, B., and Saghafian, B.
(2012).“Assessment of climate
changeimpact on floods using weather generator and continuous
rainfall-runoff model.” Int. J. Climatology., 32(13), 1997–2006.
Zahabiyoun. B. (2007) Impact
Assessment of Climate Change onRainfall over a Small Catchment.
International Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol.4, No. 1.
Zahabiyoun. B. (2004). A Catchment
ModelParameterisation to Account for Land-use Change. International
Journal of Engineering Science, Vol.9, No. 3.
Conference Papers
Moshir Panahi, D., Amin Jafari, S., & Zahabiyoun, B. (2020). Why water
bodies of Iran have been dried up?. In
EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts
(p. 17006).
Dehghanipour, A. H., Schoups, G., & Zahabiyoun, B. (2020).
“Simulation–optimization model for optimum water allocation between
environmental and agricultural demand using a coupled WEAP-MODFLOW model:
Application in Miyandoab plain, Urmia basin, Iran”, Online presented at EGU
General Assembly 2020, Vienna, Austria.
Dehghanipour, A. H, Zahabiyoun, B., & Schoups, G. (2019).
“Simulation–optimization modeling for sustainable conjunctive water
management in irrigated agriculture: WEAP-MODFLOW application in the
Miyandoab plain, Urmia basin, Iran”, Poster session presented at EGU
General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria.
Dehghanipour, A. H., Schoups, G., & Zahabiyoun, B. (2019). “A
WEAP-MODFLOW model for conjunctive water management in the Urmia Lake Basin,
Iran”, Oral session. presented at the 5thNederlands
Aardwetenschappelijk Congress (NAC), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Moshir Panahi, D., Zahabiyoun, B &T., Raziei (2018). An Investigation
on the Effective Parameters of Climate Change Vulnerability in Iran.
EGUGA
, 11956.
Sadeghi-Tabas S., Samadi S.Z. and B. Zahabiyoun. (2017). Application of
Bayesian algorithm in continuous streamflow modeling of a mountain
watershed. 10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA on Water Resources and Environment.
5-9 July 2017, Athens, Greece.
Merikhi, A. Shariatmadari, N. Saeidijam, S. & Zahabiyoun, B. (2012),
the improvement of mechanical properties for soft clayey soils by
electrokinetic geosynthetic (ekg) in Persian Gulf water condition,
10th International Conference on Coasts, Ports and Marine Structures
,
http://www.civilica.com/Paper-ICOPMAS10-ICOPMAS10_205.html
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Sharafati, A. & Zahabiyoun, B. (2012), Uncertainty Analysis of Storm
Pattern on Seymareh Catchment,
1st International and 3rd National Conference on Dams and Hydropower
s,
http://www.civilica.com/Paper-NCHP03-NCHP03_148.html
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RajabiA. and B. Zahabiyoun (2010), "The Joint Probability
Occurrence of Waves and Water Levels in Gulf of Oman using Desk Study
Approach", Proceedings of the First Makassar International Conference on
Civil Engineering (MICCE2010), March 9-10.
Zahabiyoun, B. & Sharafati, A. (2008), A model for estimating water
equivalent of snow using Genetic Algorithm, EGU General Assembly.
Zahabiyoun, B. (2006), Climate Prameterization of a Rainfall Model for
Climate Change Studies, 3rd inter. Conf. on water resources in
Mediterranean basin. Tripoli, Lebanon.
Zahabiyoun. B. (2005). Problems
Encountered in StochasticGeneration of Streamflow Series. STOCHASTIC
HYDRAULICS 2005, 23 and 24 May 2005. Nijmegen - The Netherlands.
Zahabiyoun B. (2005), Impact Assessment of Climate Change on Rainfall over
a Small Catchment. Meteorology and Climate over South China.
Zahabiyoun. B. ( 2002). “An Approach to Land-use Change Impacts on
Water Resources”, Hydroinformatics 2002: Proceedings of the Fifth
International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Cardiff, UK.
Zahabiyoun. B. ( 2001). “An Investigation in Summer Flood Disaster
of 2001 in Gulestan Province in Iran”, in the “Proceedings of Design Flood
Criteria for Dams’ Safety”, Tehran, Iran.
Zahabiyoun. B. (1999). Construction of Rainfall Scenarios due to
Climate Change. Proceedings of 2nd International Regional Conference on
Climate Change, Tehran, Iran.
Zahabiyoun. B. (1995). Stochastic Generation of Daily Streamflow Series
Reflecting Climate and/or Land-use Change Effects. Proceedings of the First
International Regional Conference on Water Resources. Isfahan University of
Technology, Isfahan, Iran
B. Zahabiyoun, (1993). A sensitivity analysis of MULTSED due to overland
& channel flow roughness on an agricultural catchment, 11th Iernational
Conference on Environmental Management, Wollongong, Australia.
Zahabiyoun. B. (1991). “An Examination of Different Spatial
Rainfall Estimation in Mountainous Areas” in the “Proceedings of
International Conference on Urban Drainage & New Technologies”, held in
Dubrovnik, Croatia (old Yugoslavia).
Zahabiyoun. B. ( 1990). “A Sensitivity Analysis of Sediment Yield
Using Multsed Model with Respect to Channel and Overland Flow Roughness” in
the First National Conference of River Engineering”, Ahwaz, Iran.
Research Projects using Industrial Grants:
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Review of solid waste management of greater City of Tehran
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Setting guidelines and terms of references for the study of
environmental impact assessment of the oil, gas & petrochemical
projects
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Assessment of water resources sustainability due to climate change
impacts
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A study of land-use change impacts
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PMF estimation for the spillway design of Karun III large dam in Iran
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Gully erosion in the district of Ala-Marvdasht, Iran
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Researching for road pavement design using Bitumen emulsion
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A design approach to small cement factory establishments in rural
areas of Iran
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A Study for Leaching Process in Solid Waste Landfills.
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Land-use Change Effects on Evapotranspiration of a Catchment”.
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Flood Estimation for Spillway Design Considering Downstream
Risk.
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Prediction of Drought Severity and Flow Deficit (Case Study: Gharesou river in the Province of Kerman Shah).
Member in Associations and Societies
a) 2000 – Present “Committee of Dam & Flood”
affiliated to “Iran Committee of Large Dams (IRCOLD)”
b) 2001 – Present “National Society in Water
Resources” (NGO organization)
c) 2000 – Present “National Society for
Environmentalists” (NGO organization)
d) 2001 – Present “The Iran Construction
Engineering Organization” (NGO organization)
e) 1991 – Present “Board member of Ershad
Institute of Higher Education” affiliated to the Ministry of Science,
Research & Technology, Iran
f) 1992 – 1993 “Sub-committee of National
Commission of Water & Environment” affiliated to “Supreme Council for
Scientific Research of Iran”
g) 1991 – 1993 “National Committee of Hydrology”
affiliated to UNESCO”, Iran
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