hadi e arbabi
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hadi is a lecturer in the resources, infrastructure systems, & built-environments (rise) group at the university of sheffield. their work and research interests sit at the interface of data-driven urban analytics and planning. hadi’s overall body of research focuses on the challenges relating to resource consumption and productivity in urban systems often in the context of planetary resource capacity and extreme climate change.
hadi has previously worked on a spatially multi-scale examination of urban systems and the extent to which their performance is influenced by their embedded physical infrastructure (Arbabi et al., 2020). hadi’s other interests include complexity, urban scaling and allometry (Arbabi & Punzo, 2023), city morphology and infrastructure planning for agglomeration (Arbabi et al., 2019), network analysis of urban flows (Tan et al., 2021), stocks and metabolism (Arbabi et al., 2022).
as of February 2024, hadi has over 180 citations and an h-index of 9 on google scholars.
news
Oct 18, 2023 | our written evidence to the energy security and net zero committee’s inquiry, heating our homes, was published along other’s addressing the uk’s residential heating challenge. |
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Oct 11, 2023 | this grantham centre for sustainable futures’ session on the impacts of climate change on migration features my talk on regions at risk, extreme climate change, population & displacement. |
Sep 23, 2023 | the financial times picks up our research which demonstrated the uk was way off course in efforts to decarbonize the housing sector. |
May 10, 2023 | this festival of debate event at which i was one of the speakers aims to discuss denser cities and reduction in urban sprawl while also taking a global perspective to understand whether solutions are altered for different people around the world. |
May 4, 2023 | our research on the whole-life carbon impact of housing retrofit is picked up as a case study in the ice guidance document for pas 2080. |
Dec 1, 2022 | doncaster mbc have also been working with the university of sheffield to provide insights into whole-life energy characteristics of buildings and thermal profiling. |