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Bahareh Kamali

Scientist and lecturer

D-USYS in ETH Zürich and INRES in University of Bonn

About me

Understanding processes governing land ecosystems and their capacity to deliver multiple ecosystem services requires broad research disciplines. In my work, I explore the interaction between plant, soil, and water dynamics in different agroecological systems including managed grasslands, peatlands, grasslands and cropping systems.

Two research areas are my main focus. First is understanding soil-water-plant growth dynamics including ecosystem biodiversity and the connection between below/above-ground components. Second is the response of agroecosystems to climate change and climatic extremes and their implication for greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, N2O, and CH4).

My research covers different spatial and temporal scales and benefits from observational and experimental knowledge as well as process-based modeling, and remote sensing technology. I endorse developing innovative methods based on assimilating real-time remote-sensing data into agroecosystem models for upscaling from field to landscape, climate change impact assessment, and finding strategies for sustainable operations of ecosystems.

Research interests:

  • Understanding plants (grassland and crop) functionality and their connection to soil and water
  • Impact of climate change and climatic extremes on ecosystem biodiversity
  • Solutions for sustainable production and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • Agroecosystem modeling with focus on plant-soil-water relations at multiple scale
  • Assimilation of remote sensing data into process-based models for sustainable management of ecosystems

Education

 
 
 
 
 

PhD in Environmental Systems Sciences

ETH Zürich and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Dec 2013 – Dec 2017
Title of thesis: Application of a spatially explicit biophysical crop model to assess drought impacts on crop yield and crop-drought vulnerability in sub-Saharan Africa
 
 
 
 
 

Master of Science in Water Resource Planning and Management

Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Apr 2010 – Sep 2010
Title of thesis: Automatic calibration of hydrologic event-based model using PSO meta-heuristic algorithm
 
 
 
 
 

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Urmia University, Faculty of Engineering, Urmia, Iran

Apr 2006 – Sep 2007

Professional experience

 
 
 
 
 

Lecturer and scientist [Oberassitant]

Grassland Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

May 2024 – Present
 
 
 
 
 

Lecturer and scientist [Akademischerrätin and Wissenschaftlerin]

Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Germany

Apr 2021 – Present
Responsibilities:

  • Teaching MSc and BSc courses
  • Supervision of PhD/MSc/BSc thesis
  • Writing scientific papers andresearch grant proposals
  • Conducting and leading different research projects
 
 
 
 
 

Post-doctoral researcher

Leibniz Hannover University, Hannover, Germany

Jan 2021 – Mar 2021
Title of project: Improving the agro-hydrological simulation of irrigation in catchments under extreme climatic conditions by using ensemble
 
 
 
 
 

Post-doctoral researcher

Leibniz Center for Agriculture Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany

Jan 2018 – Dec 2020
Title of project: SattGrün - Satellite-based information for grassland management

Responsibilities:

  • Conducting and leading different research projects
  • Co-supervision of PhD/master students
  • Writing research grant proposals
 
 
 
 
 

PhD candidate

Eawag, Duebendorf, Switzerland

Nov 2012 – Jan 2018
Title of project: Application of a bio-physical crop model to assess crop-drought vulnerability in Sub-Saharan Africa under present and future climate
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

Amirkabir University of Technology

Nov 2010 – Feb 2012 Tehran-Iran

Role:

  • Collaborating on project about optimizing the operation of Ekbatan dam for sediment flushing
  • Teaching assisstant

Funded by: Water Research Institute and Amirkabir University of Technology

 
 
 
 
 

Project manager and team leader

TARH O SAZE CASPIAN: Building & Infrastructure Engineering Company, Tehran, Iran

May 2010 – Oct 2012
Responsibilities:

  • Designing urban storm water collection
  • Hydrologic analysis of flooding events in urban systems
  • Modeling and visualization of urban storm water collection using AutoCAD
 
 
 
 
 

Engineer

Civilmarmar Building & Infrastructure Engineering Company, Urmia-Iran

May 2007 – Sep 2007
Responsibilities:

  • Designing services and advices for rehabilitation, renovation and construction of roads and higway projects
  • Modeling and visualization of roads and highways using AutoCAD
  • Quantity surveying and estimating of project costs

Projects

Collaborations projects

Currents

Peer-review Journals

people

Post-docs

PhD Supervision

Clara Bazzo

2021-present

Valeh Khaledi

2021-2022

Aram Gorooei

2021-2023

Master and bacholar thesis

Conference presentations

Spatio-temporal dynamic of crop drought vulnerability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Future of permanent grasslands in Germany, implications for grassland management
An introduction to EPIC+SUFI2 for calibrating EPIC crop model at different scales
The Impact of climate data uncertainty on calibration of the SWAT model
Meta-modeling for calibration of HEC-HMS rainfall-runoff
Application of rainfall temporal distribution on HEC-HMS and SWMM model

Teaching

 
 
 
 
 

Ecological conditions and climate change

University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jul 2021 – Present

Role

  • Co-lecturer

Topics

  • Climate change causes and patterns
 
 
 
 
 

GIS-basic concepts and applications

University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jul 2021 – Present

Role

  • Main lecturer

Topics

  • GIS Basics and data types
  • Projections and classifications
  • Databases for weather and climate information
  • Spatial databases for land use/cover and soils and administrative information
  • GIS & R
 
 
 
 
 

Crop and ecosystem analysis and modelling

University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Apr 2021 – Present
Role

  • Co-lecturer
 
 
 
 
 

SPACE-Water: Hydrological modeling with SWAT

University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Mar 2017 – Mar 2017

Role

  • Invited lecturer

Topics

  • Concepts related to calibration, validation
  • Uncertainty analysis
  • Practical exercise on these concepts using SWAT
  • Practical exercise on SWAT-CUP.
 
 
 
 
 

Hydraulic

Qazvin islamic azad university, Qazvin, Iran

Apr 2011 – Sep 2012
  • Two credit Points bachelor program

Role

  • Main lecturer
 
 
 
 
 

Fluid mechanic

Qazvin islamic azad university, Qazvin, Iran

Apr 2011 – Sep 2012
  • Three credit Points bachelor program

Role

  • Main lecturer
 
 
 
 
 

Hydraulic and hydrostructures

Qazvin islamic azad university, Qazvin, Iran

Apr 2011 – Sep 2012
  • Three credit Points bachelor program

Role

  • Main lecturer
 
 
 
 
 

Hydrology

Amirkabir university of technology, Tehran, Iran

Apr 2010 – Sep 2012
  • Two credit points bachelor program

Role

  • Teaching assistant
 
 
 
 
 

Advanced hydrology

Amirkabir university of technology,Tehran, Iran

Apr 2010 – Sep 2012
  • Two credit Points bachelor program

Role

  • Main lecturer

Software

Lintul5

Since 2019

MONICA

Since 2018

Python

Since 2015

EPIC

Since 2015

HEC-HMS

Since 2014

Matlab

2009-01-01

Contact

  • +49 (0)228 73 3258
  • Katzenburgweg 5, Bonn, 53115
  • Enter building, first floor, room 0.010
  • Monday to Friday 08:30 to 17:30