Profile

During my undergraduate studies, I built a solid foundation in agricultural and environmental engineering as well as water resources engineering and management. After ranking 9th in the highly competitive M.Sc. entrance exam in Iran, I was granted eligibility for a Master’s degree and secured a full scholarship to study at Tarbiat Modares University. I completed my Master’s thesis with distinction, focusing on agricultural water management. My professional journey includes extensive experience in hydrological modeling, geospatial analysis, hydroinformatics, the water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus, and climate change impact assessment. These areas have sharpened my technical skills and deepened my passion for applied research, particularly in understanding the human-environment complex systems. Currently, as a PhD student at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), I am focused on developing the SWAT+ model to address uncertainties in hydrological modeling.

Work Experiences

Sustainability Consultant and Financial Inspector (Part-Time)

June. 2022 – Now
Cooperative Company of the Kimia Garden Town, Shiraz, Iran
  • Water supply and demand management
  • Sustainability action plan
  • Stakeholders’ conflict resolution

Hydrologist, GIS specialist, Water and Soil Analyst (Part-Time)

Sep. 2022 – Now
Arazist Parsian Mehr Consulting Engineers, Shiraz, Iran
  • Hydrological and hydraulic modeling
  • Urban stormwater management
  • Gis application in hydrology and decision-making
  • Hydrological report writing

Research Assistant (Part-Time)

Feb. 2019 – Now
Drought Research Center, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
  • Discovering best management practices in agricultural systems
  • Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus assessment
  • Application of remote sensing in water, soil, and crop sciences
  • Climate change impacts assessment (based on CMIP6 datasets)
  • hydrological and agricultural simulation and optimization
  • Evapotranspiration and irrigation water demand prediction

Farm Management Consultant (Part-Time)

Jan.2008 – Dec. 2012
Shahed Agricultural Store, Shiraz, Iran
  • Irrigation system design, Irrigation scheduling
  • Water, seed, fertilizer, and pesticide management
  • Agricultural consultant

Certifications

Water resources management and policy

2021 - 2021
Coursera (MX3B927JT2Z7)

Data Analysis with R Programming

2023 - 2023
Google (111-222)

Python Programming in Meteorology

2023 - 2023
Iranian National Geophysical Society

Machine Learning Methods in Python

2023 - 2023
Iranian National Geophysical Society

Water Engineering and Environment – Dam Engineering

2023 - 2023
Iran Ministry of Energy

Integrated Drought Management, Monitoring and Early Warning

2023 - 2023
Cap-Net (47db22a3c36d4371b4cf1930b799bf23)

Sustainable Urban Water Systems

2023 - 2023
Coursera (47db22a3c36d4371b4cf1930b799bf23)

Water Productivity in Practice

2023 - 2023
IHE Delft

SDG 6.5.1 IWRM Action Planning

2022 - 2022
Cap-Net

Assessing the Environmental Flow Requirement for SDG Indicator 6.4.2

2023 - 2023
IHE Delft

Agriculture, Economics and Nature

2022 - 2022
Future Learn

Structuring your article correctly

2022 - 2022
Elsevier

Projects

Some of the major projects I have done are listed in this section.

Hydraulics - M.Sc. Thesis - Investigating the application of approximate method of Artificial Neural Networks for modeling the water productivity in irrigation networks using hydrodynamic models.
Hydrology - Rainfall-runoff simulation of the Karkheh River Basin using Artificial Neural Networks.
Climatology - Comparing the capability of Lars-WG and cmhyd model for future climate data projection.
Hydrology - Calibration and application of the IHACRES model for assessing the impact of climate change on the water availability of the Hamoon Jazmourian Basin.
Hydrogeology - Assessing the impact of climate and land cover change on Gharesu Basin hydrological regime using SWAT model under CMIP6 scenarios.
Hydrology - Optimization of water allocation in a multistakeholder basin (Karkheh) under climate change using WEAP model.
Hydrology - Extraction of Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves under Climate Change in the Qom-roud basin.
Urban Stormwater Management - Stormwater management of an urban area using SWMM model for recognizing the best management practices.
Hydraulics - Flood vulnerability mapping of the Dez River using HecRas and ArcGIS.
Remote Sensing - Crop mapping of the South-Karkheh Subbasin Using R and machine learning methods.

Honors and awards

Academic Award - Being among the top 5 percent of the national B.Sc. entrance exam (Full tuition fee scholarship). (2010)
interdisciplinary Honor - Design and construction of the largest sundial in Iran at the Jahrom University. (2013)
Academic Award - Rank 9 in the national M.Sc. Entrance Exam (Full tuition fee scholarship). (2014)
Executive Management Honor - The winner of the election (of the board of directors) of the Kimia Garden Town, Iran. (2022)
Academic Award - Best research proposal of the “Water engineering and environment” autumn school (fully-funded opportunity offered by Iran Ministry of Energy). (2023)

Publications

  • Modeling the effects of irrigation management scenarios on winter wheat yield and water use indicators in response to climate variations and water delivery systems
  • Davarpanah, R., & Ahmadi, S. H. (2021)
    Journal of Hydrology, 598, 126269. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126269)
  • Evaluation of total dissolved solids in rivers by improved neuro fuzzy approaches using metaheuristic algorithms.
  • Jannatkhah, M., Davarpanah, R., Fakouri, B., Kisi, O. (2024)
    Earth Science Informatics. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-024-01220-x)

    Skills & Proficiency

    Python

    R

    Matlab

    Google Earth Engine

    SWAT

    WEAP

    HecRas

    HecHms

    ArcGIS

    SWMM

    Aquacrop

    MODFLOW