Research groups
Areas of responsibility
Motivantion
I entered academia in search of environmental solutions (Project "Production of green Nanozerovalent Iron using Plant extracts and Fruit Juices"). My quest lead me to investigate coupled environmental human systems (Project "Socio-hydraulic analysis of a past Omani irrigation system" and "Understanding Ancient Water Systems using Agent-Based Modeling"). The significance of social factors in ecological issues motivated me to understand social systems better (Computer Tools for Modeling Religious and Social Conflict). Computer modelling and agent-based methods, in particular, is a grounded approach for my work though I do miss sometimes working in a laboratory.
Current work
In our current project, we research modelling social interactions with an interest in bullying dynamics. Our work demands interdisciplinary collaboration. To tackle communication issues, we have assigned part of the project in building a tool. The collaborators in the project write in simple English their understanding of the social situation, and the tool transforms it into a social model.
About Interdisciplinary work
Connecting different disciplines is fascinating and essential. My experience has taught me that what we seek in one scientific field might have already be answered in another! Building bridges in science takes time, and it is our responsibility to start the work. #unitedscience
Research
Bullying
Social Conflict
Social Simulation
Interdisciplinary communication
Philosophy
Socio ecological systems
Environmental Engineering
Archaeology
Ancient irrigation
Selected publications
Understanding aspects of the Hohokam society with a modeling approach grounded on different datasets of the archaeological record Aug 2017, Oral presentation at the European Association of Archaeologists Meeting, Maastricht
Using hydraulic modeling to simulate human interactions with water resources in an Omani irrigation system http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017EGUGA..1912457X
Statistical properties and Hurst-Kolmogorov dynamics in climatic proxy data and temperature reconstructions. https://doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.21134.56644
Comparative evaluation of five plant extracts and juices for nanoiron synthesis and application for hexavalent chromium reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.091
Tuition
IKT445-G Generative programming
CN-2743 Success Unleash Yourself