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Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Dr. Nasser Najibi

Assistant Professor in Climate Resilience and Extension Specialist

Dr. Najibi works on developing engineering approaches, tools, and datasets at the intersection of hydroclimate extremes, risk assessment, and decision-making in a changing environment. His work bridges hydroclimate science, systems engineering, and geospatial data modeling/applications to enhance climate and ecosystem resilience by characterizing the drivers and impacts of extreme weather events and climate change on infrastructure systems and communities.

Prof. Najibi’s Research Group focuses on understanding multisectoral, deeply uncertain, and dynamic climate risks to improve resilience and adaptation to multi-hazards evolving in a changing environment. For example, from evaluating the risks of extreme weather events (floods, droughts, rainstorms, heatwaves, etc.) to enhancing system resilience and creating robust planning and management strategies that respond to environmental changes and anthropogenic landscape transformations. The ultimate goal is to develop innovative solutions to the pressing challenges posed by multisectoral-multiscale risks, creating more resilient communities and sustainable interconnected systems (built, natural, and human) that can withstand and adapt to the multifaceted impacts of a rapidly changing climate and environment. See more at the Climate Resilience Lab: https://nassernajibi.github.io/lab.

Before joining the University of Florida, Dr. Najibi was a Research Associate and Postdoctoral Scholar at Cornell University and an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow sponsored by the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center. He received a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from The City University of New York (City College) in 2019, an M.Sc. in Geodesy and Remote Sensing from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014, and a B.Sc. in Civil and Surveying Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2011.

Contact Information

nnajibi@ufl.edu

352-294-6739

Mailing Address:
1741 Museum Rd
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32601

ROG 261

  • Education
    • Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Environmental and Water Resources Engineering), City University of New York, New York, USA, 2019
    • M.Phil. Civil Engineering, City University of New York, New York, USA, 2017
    • M.S. Geodesy and Remote Sensing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2014
    • B.S. Civil and Surveying Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2011
  • Professional Experience
    • 2025 –
      Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
    • Aug 2024 – Dec 2024
      Research Associate, Cornell University, NY, USA
    • 2021 – 2023
      ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, US Army Corps of Engineers, DoD, USA
    • 2019 – 2024
      Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, NY, USA
    • 2015 – 2019
      Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, The City College of New York, USA
    • 2011 – 2014
      Graduate Research Assistant, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA
  • Other Professional Activities

    Review:

    • Review Panelist for NSF Collaborations in AI and Geosciences (CAIG), May 2024
    • Organizing Committee Member for City+2023 @ Perth: Geospatial Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Cities (An International Conference for Early-Career Researchers and Ph.D. Students on Urban Studies, Perth, Australia), Sep 2023
    • Guest Editor of ELSEVIER International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation for Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Geocomputation and GeoAI for Mapping”, Jul 2021 - 2022
    • Review Panelist for NASA CYGNSS Science Team, Feb 2021
    • Reviewer of NSF’s Hydrologic Sciences Program Proposals, Feb 2021 –
    • Reviewer of IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Second Order Draft (SOD) of Climate Change 2021 Working Group 1: The Physical Science Basis and Working Group 2: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Spring - Fall 2020
    • Reviewer of IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) First Order Draft (FOD) of Climate Change 2021 Working Group 1 and 2, Spring - Fall 2019

    Member of:

    • American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2015 –
    • American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2015 –
    • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2015 –
    • Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) STEM Professionals Network (HSI STEM Hub), 2019 –
  • Awards and Honors
    • Review Panelist for NSF Collaborations in AI and Geosciences (CAIG), May 2024
    • Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mar 2021
    • Review Panelist for NASA CYGNSS Science Team, Feb 2021
    • Expert Reviewer of IPCC 6th Assessment Reports (AR6), Jan 2021
    • Remote Sensing Outstanding Reviewer Award, Mar 2019
    • SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement and Leadership) Award and Grant, Jun 2018
    • NOAA/CESSRST HIRES and NSF-REU Summer Mentorship Fellowship, 2017–2018
    • City University of New York Science Fellowship, Sep 2014
    • Visiting Student Grant by Center for Study of Biosphere from Space (CESBIO), May 2013
    • Excellent Student Award (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jul 2012
    • M.Sc. Full Scholarship Award (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Sep 2011
    • Ranked 4th in Civil/Surveying Eng. of UT Class 2011 (Magna Cum Laude), Jul 2011
    • B.Sc. Scholarship (University of Tehran), Sep 2007
  • Publications