Dr Nader Naderpajouh

Awards

• Best Peer Reviewed Paper Honorable Mention (2020), Journal of Management in Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Malcom Moore Industry Research Award (2019) – AU$35,000
• RMIT Europe Fellowship (2019) – AU$25,000
• Outstanding Reviewer (2018), Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier
• Emerald Literati Awards Highly Commended Paper (2018), Emerald Literati Network
• Iran’s National Elites Foundation (INEF) Fellowship (2017), IRR95,000,000
• Outstanding Reviewer (2016), Journal of Management in Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Best Peer Reviewed Paper Honorable Mention (2016), Journal of Management in Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Outstanding Reviewer (2015), Journal of Management in Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants (CETA) Teaching Award (2012), Purdue University
• Bronze Medal Team, Third Mondialogo Engineering Award (2009), UNESCO and Daimler AG, For Post Disaster Housing Project in China Nov. 6th-9th 2009 Stuttgart, Germany – 5,000€
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2009), Construction Engineering and Management, College of Engineering, Purdue University
• Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009), College of Engineering, Purdue University – US$2,000
• Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008), College of Engineering, Purdue University – US$500

Grants

External

• Risk governance for procurement in future fuels (2021-2022) – Funded by Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre (FFCRC) (Co-investigator)
• Community driven approach to “As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP)” risk governance (2021) – Funded by Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre (FFCRC) (Co-investigator)
• Understanding drivers for public damage of distribution assets (2020-2021) – Funded by Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre (FFCRC) (Co-investigator)
• Risks in the regulatory framework of the building industry (2020) (Co-investigator)
• SAFETY4RAILS: Data-based analysis for safety and security protection for detection, prevention, mitigation and response in trans-modal metro and railway networks (2020-2022) (Co-investigator)
• Towards evaluating the employment impacts of the building maintenance program (2019-2020) (Co-investigator)
• Development of the construction capacity index (2019-2020) (Lead investigator)
• Assessing the feasibility and effectiveness of pipeline intrusion avoidance solutions and providing context-specific decision support for selection of the technology (2019-2020) – (Co-investigator)
• Participatory governance of integrated and resilient residential and mixed-use developments (2019) (Lead investigator)
• Regulatory dynamics of infrastructure resilience (2018-2019) (Lead investigator) 
• Developing industry primers for resilience (2018-2019) (Co-investigator)
• Dynamic modelling of budget allocation at educational organisations to enhance resilience (2018) (Co-investigator)
• Operational paradigm for engineering resilience of interdependent infrastructure systems (2017) (Lead investigator) 

Internal

• Resilience of communities and their infrastructure systems (2019) (Lead Investigator)
• Building integrity collaboration with UK (2018) (Co-investigator)
• Institutional Complexity of public private partnerships (2017) (Co-investigator)
• Data and technology to support project management and decision-making in the built environment (2017) (Co-investigator)
• Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in construction (2017) (Co-investigator)
• Efficient processes in infrastructure construction (EPIC) (2017) (Co-investigator)

Editorial board membership

• Associate Editor:
• Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE (2017-Present)
• Built Environment Project and Asset Management (2018-Present)
• Member of the Editorial Board:
• AUT Journal of Civil Engineering (2019-Present)
• Project Leadership and Society, (2020-Present)
• International Journal of Project Management (2021-Present)

Guest editor

• Guest editor, special collection on "Temporary organising and crisis." International Journal of Project Management (2021-2023)
• Lead guest editor, special collection on "Resilience in Project Studies: An interdisciplinary discourse." International Journal of Project Management (2020-2022)
• Lead guest editor, special collection on "Management of resilience in civil infrastructure systems: An interdisciplinary approach." Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE (2018-2020)

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Purdue University
• M.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology
• B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology

Employment history

• Senior Lecturer, School of Project Management, University of Sydney (2021-Present)
• Visiting Research Fellow, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University (2021–Present)
• Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University (2019–2021)
• Adjunct Professor, School of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran (2017)
• Lecturer (Assistant Professor), School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University (2016–2019)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Division of Construction Engineering and Management, College of Engineering, Purdue University (2014–2016)
• Post Doctoral Scholar, Division of Construction Engineering and Management, College of Engineering, Purdue University (2013–2014)
• Research and Teaching Assistant, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Purdue University (2007–2013)
• Technical Engineer, Jäger Bau GmbH, Underground Construction (2004–2007)
• Designer and Consultant Representative (Part time), Istaguya Consultant Engineers, Structural Design and Supervision of Commercial/Residential buildings (2001-2004) 

Professional memberships

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Academic Committee of the Construction Industry Institute (CII)
• Construction Research Council of ASCE (CRC)
• UN Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme
• Future Leaders Committee of the Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and Management Programs (GLF-CEM)
• European Academy of Management (EURAM)
• Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Infrastructure Resilience Division of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI)
• Steering Committee of the Global Resilience Research Network (GRRN)

Journal referee

(1) International Journal of Project Management, (2) Production Planning and Control, (3) Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, (4) Safety Science, (5) Technology in Society, (6) International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, (7) Land Use Policy, (8) Journal of Infrastructure Systems (ASCE), (9)  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (10) Journal of Cleaner Production, (11) Journal of Pipeline Systems - Engineering and Practice (ASCE), (12) Reliability Engineering and System Safety, (13) Environment Systems and Decisions, (14) Cities, (15) PLOS ONE, (16) Habitat International, (17) AUT Journal of Civil Engineering, (18) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, (19) Civil Engineering Infrastructures Journal, (20) Built Environment Project and Asset Management, (21) KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, (22) Journal of Risk Research, (23) Project Leadership and Society, (24) Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (ASCE), (25) Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE), (26) Automation in Construction, (27) Construction Management and Economics.

• Mahdavi, A.,Naderpajouh, N.,Choi, J.,Ketabi, A.,Hastak, M.,Cui, Q. (2020). (In Press) Dynamics of Project Selection and Growth in Project Based Organizations In: International Journal of Construction Management, , 1 - 10
• Bahadorestani, A.,Naderpajouh, N.,Sadiq, R. (2020). Planning for sustainable stakeholder engagement based on the assessment of conflicting interests in projects In: Journal of Cleaner Production, 242, 1 - 20
• Borg, N.,Scott-Young, C.,Naderpajouh, N. (2020). Strategies for Business Sustainability in a Collaborative Economy: Building the Career Resilience of Generation Z In: Strategies for Business Sustainability in a Collaborative Economy, IGI Global, Singapore
• Ayub, B.,Naderpajouh, N.,Boukamp, F.,McGough, T. (2020). Housing market bubbles and urban resilience: Applying systems theory In: Cities, 106, 1 - 14
• Choi, J.,Naderpajouh, N.,Yu, D.,Hastak, M. (2019). Capacity Building for an Infrastructure System in Case of Disaster Using the System's Associated Social and Technical Components In: Journal of Management in Engineering, 35, 1 - 16
• Yoon, S.,Naderpajouh, N.,Hastak, M. (2019). Decision model to integrate community preferences and nudges into the selection of alternatives in infrastructure development In: Journal of Cleaner Production, 228, 1413 - 1424
• Valentin, V.,Naderpajouh, N.,Abraham, D. (2018). Integrating the Input of Stakeholders in Infrastructure Risk Assessment In: Journal of Management in Engineering, 34, 1 - 15
• Khallaf, R.,Naderpajouh, N.,Hastak, M. (2018). A systematic approach to develop risk registry frameworks for complex projects In: Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 8, 334 - 347
• Gomez, S.,Naderpajouh, N.,Ballard, G.,Hastak, M.,Weidner, T.,Barriga, P. (2018). Implications of the Integrated Project Delivery Research in Practice In: Construction Research Congress 2018, New Orleans, United States, April 2-4, 2018
• Naderpajouh, N.,Yu, D.,Aldrich, D.,Linkov, I.,Matinheikki, J. (2018). Engineering meets institutions: an interdisciplinary approach to the management of resilience In: Environment Systems and Decisions, 38, 306 - 317

• ALARP decision making (RP2.3-05). Funded by: Future Fuels CRC from (2021 to 2021)
• Understanding drivers for damage to distribution assets (RP2.4.02). Funded by: Future Fuels CRC from (2020 to 2021)
• Assessing the feasibility and effectiveness of pipeline intrusion avoidance solutions and providing context-specific decision support for selection. (Pipeline intrusion avoidance solutions). Funded by: Future Fuels CRC from (2019 to 2021)
• Resilience Shift - Evaluating legislative mechanisms to deliver resilient critical infrastructure (Administered by Ove Arup and Partners International Limited). Funded by: Lloyd's Register Foundation - Grant from (2019 to 2019)
• Towards evaluating the employment impacts of the building maintenance program (Project 3.66). Funded by: Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre from (2019 to 2021)