Negin Nazarian
Lead Author, Special Report On Cities And Climate Change
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNegin Nazarian is an urban climatologist and research leader with nine years of experience translating multiscale climate science into actionable urban design and policy guidance. She leads the Climate-Resilient Cities lab at UNSW, serves as an IPCC Lead Author on cities and climate change, and holds senior investigator and deputy director roles at major Australian climate centres. Her work blends numerical modeling, IoT wearables, and field sensor networks to quantify urban heat and air quality impacts with the goal of enabling climate-conscious, human-centered city design. Negin bridges academia, practice, and policy—making models accessible to architects, planners, and decision-makers—and chairs the AMS Board on Urban Environment. She is a committed advocate for gender equity in academia and co-champion at UNSW, bringing a policy-savvy perspective shaped by science-policy fellowships and international collaborations. An unconventional strength is her focus on wearable sensors to connect individual thermal experience with city-scale modeling, linking lived experience to rigorous climate assessments.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Persian, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
27reputation
512reached
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4questions
Github Skills (13)
canopy8
multi-layer7
spatial6
cartopy6
ppd6
pandas6
openstreetmap6
geospatial6
python6
loops6
dataframe6
energy-efficiency3
indices3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tiffanyts/OTC3D
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:74 commits, 72 pushes, 2 comments in 4 months
nenazarian/MLUCM
May 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 65 commits, 64 pushes in 2 years 4 months
urbancanopy-modelmulti-layercanopy
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