Associate Professor of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, School of Civil Engineering,
College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: 19 September, 1972
Place of Birth: Tabriz, Iran
Nationality: Iranian
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Mailing Address: Department of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering, University of Tehran, Enghelab St.,Tehran, Iran,
P.O. Box: 31587-77871
Tel: +98 21 36040906 (Office)
Fax: +98 21 36040906
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EDUCATION
- Postdoctoral Research: Research Scholar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Massachusetts , USA, 2016– 2017.
- D.: Water Resources Engineering (Civil Engineering), 2016, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
- Title of Ph.D. Thesis: “ Hydrosystems as Multipractice Phenomena A Normative Approach to Analysing Governance System Failures”
- Master of Science: Civil Engineering, 1998, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran.
- Title of Master of Science Thesis: “ A Computer Simulation Modeling and Laboratory Experimental Analysis of Cherepnov Water Lifter”
- Bachelor of Science, Irrigation (Water) Engineering, 1995, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
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HONORS
- 1997, Kharazmi youth innovator festival awards candidates for innovative manufacturing a Lab. Cherepnov Water Lifter. This festival is annually organized by Iran’s Ministry of Science.
- in coursework titled below:
- 2013, Centro di GeoTecnologie, Università degli Studi di Siena, MIRAME, summer course on Hazard assessment.
- 2012, ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) No time at all, annual Cortona Week in Tuscany, Italy.
- International Center for Hydropower (ICH) full scholarship for participation
- 2010, Small Hydropower Resources (SHR), Trondheim, Norway.
- 2009, Dam Safety and Inspections (DSI), Trondheim, Norway.
- 2008, Hydropower Financing and Project Economy (HFPE), Oslo, Norway.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2001 –2011 |
Payandab Tavan Consulting Group, Iran. |
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Occupation held |
Co-founder, Project Manager and CEO. |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
- Founder and co-founder of two companies in Iran. Achievements: boosting the turnover to twice more than GDP in an eight-year period. - Conducted a collaborative engineering joint venture to approach new challenges. - Involved (2001-2009) directly in more than 62 engineering projects in Iran and Kenya, In the engineering sub-fields; flood defence, irrigation and drainage, small and medium hydropower schemes, dam and water conveyance tunnels and geotechnical surveying. - Implemented an accountability framework of the company as a key plan of the project’s management methodology for team leaders, human and fiscal resources liaisons. It examined during a one-year € 900K project in 2010. Exceeded targets by 18%.
- Ensured appropriate provision for internal audit processes and procedures attuned with value-sensitive norms of Code of Engineering Act (2009-2011). - Developed induction for new staff. |
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Involved Sectors |
Design teams, Project supervision, Integrated resource management, Business development. |
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1998-2001 Occupation held Main activities and responsibilities |
Iran Water and Power Company (IWPCo). Senior and supervisor engineer of small and medium hydropower schemes The design team provided engineering services for: |
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- Pre-authorization studies; preparing design reports; preparing studies for uprating, rehabilitation, or replacement of hydropower stations. - Supervising of installation (mostly run-off-river) hydropower schemes (e.g. cascade hydropower projects in the south west of Iran). - Providing hydrological analysis as input to the electro-mechanical of reconnaissance reports (3 hydropower projects in Isfahan province, central Iran). |
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- Coordinating hydro-mechanical and -electrical services for south-west office. - Analysing results, making recommendations, and providing engineering services during construction. |
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Involved Sector |
Small and medium hydropower administration. |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Complex Water Problems
- Water Diplomacy
- Water Conflict and Resolution Mechanisms
- Enabling Conditions of Negotiated approach to Governing Water
- Interlocked issues of Technological Development and Policy Analysis
- Remote Sensing
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PUBLICATIONS
Journal Publications
- Harandi, M. F., Shafiqul Islam (forthcoming), A Reframing of Zayandehrud’s Water Conflict. Journal of Hydrology.
- Harandi, M. F. (forthcoming), Book Chapter on Resolution of Transboundary Water Conflict: The Role of Enabling Conditions for Pragmatic Negotiation
- Nia, M. G., Harandi M. F., De Vries, M., (accepted), Technology Development as a Normative Practice; A Meaning-Based Approach to Learning about Values in Engineering, Damming as a case study. Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics.
- Harandi M. F., De Vries M. J., (forthcoming), Hydrosystems as Multi-Actor Phenomena. Journal of Water Policy.
- Harandi M. F., Nia M. G., De Vries M. J., 2015. Water Management: Sacrificing Normative Practice Subverting the Traditions of Water Apportionment: 'Whose Justice? Which Rationality?' Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics 21(5): 1241–1269 doi 10.1007/s11948-014-9593-1.
- Harandi, M. F., De Vries M. J., 2014. Appraisal of Qualifying Role of Hydraulic Heritage Systems; A Case Study of Qanat in the Central Iran. Journal of Water Science and Technology: IWA Water science and Technology: Water Supply Journal 14.6: 1124-1132 doi 10.2166/ws.2014.074.
- Harandi M. F., Yarahmadian S., Sepehrifar M., Van Gelder, P., 2014. The Dichotomous Markov Process with Nonparametric Test Application; a Decision Support Method in Long-term River Behavioural Analysis, the ZayandehRud River; a Case Study from Central Iran. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 28(7): 1889-1896 doi10.1007/s00477-014-0854-y
- Mamanpoush A., Fasihi Harandi, M. 2001. Small Hydropower usage in the highlands irrigation. Journal of Water & Wastewater, 14(39): 50-54.
- Harandi, M. F. “Taste and odor issues in reservoirs”, Iranian Society of Civil Engineering Journal (ASAS), 2(2): 40-49.
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MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- Society for Philosophy & Technology, USA (SPT).
- Iranian Organization for Engineering Order of Building.
- Iranian Society of Consulting Engineers (IRSCE).
- International Center for Hydropower, Norway (ICH).
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TEACHING RECORDS
- Hydrology
- Management of common-pool water resources
- Groundwater Hydro-Geology
- Water Management course-project instructor
- Teaching assistant for River Morphology
- Water Resources Planning and Management
- Meteorology
- Engineering Economy