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Biography
Prof Raziyeh Farmani is a professor of water engineering based in the Centre for Water Systems at Exeter University. She is an Industrial Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering and the Chair of IWA's Intermittent Water Supply Specialist Group.
She has led Exeter’s contribution to several projects funded by EPSRC, the British Council and the EU.
Her interests spaÂn urban water systems, water resources management and asset management and she has particular expertise in multi-objective optimisation of water networks.
She has been publishing in international refereed journals and conferences in the following areas which constitute her research interests: Bayesian networks, Participatory integrated assessment under uncertainty, Adaptive water resources management, Evolutionary optimisation, water supply and distribution systems, irrigation, optimum design, operation, rehabilitation and management of urban water systems, reliability and water quality, constraint handling and multiobjective optimisation.
Research Projects
- AIoT: Artificial Intelligence of Things Enabling Autonomous Waste Catchments, Ofwat, (2022-2025)
- Digital Twin for Water Pipe Systems, KTP (2021-2024)
- Digital Solutions for Resilient Urban Water Systems (Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship (2019-2022)
- Wescountry Women Working With Water (5W), Royal Academy of Engineering (2018-2019)
- Application of innovative statistical models to automate process control tools that manage water pipeline infrastructure, KTP (2018-2020), Artesia, Co-investigator
- Geores, Marie Curie RISE grant, H2020, EC (2018-2022), co-investigator
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, (2017), Prof Maria Cunha
- Improved Water and Energy Efficiency for Chilean Mining Industry through Optimum scheduling for integrated water supply-demand side management (2016, Prosperity Fund, UK) A consortium of Centre for Water Systems (UK), Camborne School of Mine (UK) and Universida Catolica Norte (Chile) propose the water and energy efficiency for Chilean mining industry.
- TWENTY 65: Tailored Water Solutions for Positive Impact (EPSRC 2016-2021)
- Local Nexus Network: Building sustainable local nexuses of food, energy and water: from smart engineering to shared prosperity (EPSRC 2015-2017)
- Safe & SuRe: Towards a new paradigm for urban water management - (EPSRC 2013-2018)
- iWIDGET: Improved Water efficiency through ICT technologies for integrated supply-Demand side manaGEmenT - (EC, FP7, 2012-2015)
- UK/US collaboration - Clean Water for All (EPSRC 2013-2014) - An exchange programme between University of Exeter, University of Arizona, University of Utah and University of Toledo (EPSRC and NSF funded).
- UK/China collaboration (Royal Society, 2013-2015)- Optimizing strategies and technologies for nonpoint source pollution control - An exhange programme between University of Exeter and Fudan University.
- She has recently led research in two EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment consortia. Regional Visions of Integrated Sustainable Infrastructure Optimised for Neighbourhoods: ReVISIONs, and Sustainable Regeneration: From evidence based urban futures to implementation (Urban Futures)
- She Led Exeter's contribution in a European project on New approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty (EC, NeWater).