Nasrin Aghamohammadi

Dr Nasrin Aghamohammadi is a productive professional in the field of environmental engineering, focusing on sustainable cities and society. Currently, she is an adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya (UM) and an academic staff member and researcher at the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute. She was a previous associate professor and senior researcher at the UM, where she led the multidisciplinary grand challenge programme on the urban heat island phenomenon in a tropical city and mitigation approaches since 2015 in Greater Kuala Lumpur. She lectures at various faculties and universities, including Malaysia, USA, Japan, China, and Iran.

Her research focus is on urban overheating, innovative mitigation strategies, sustainability policy, air quality, thermal comfort, health impact, need assessments, walkability, alert systems, net zero emissions, and technologies for the waste and water-energy nexus.

Nasrin has extensive experience as a principal investigator for multi-disciplinary projects, sustainable engineering, community and stakeholder engagements, and social behaviours. She was an advisor on indoor air quality in hospital buildings during COVID-19.

She is a project reviewer, technical author, and associate editor for a high-ranking international scientific peer-reviewed journals

With Nasrin’s broad expertise and work in a multidisciplinary field, given her background as a graduate of Chemical Engineering, PhD, University of Malaya. Master of Science in Civil Engineering, University Science Malaysia; Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health Engineering, University Tehran of Medical Sciences, Iran.

She innovated a system to monitor the heat index at the pedestrian level for heat alerting that is IoT-based. Nasrin is working on ways to achieve sustainable development goals, particularly goals 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 13.