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Mina Babazadeh

+91-837*******. ada0bt@r.postjobfree.com. 219 Godavari, JNU, New Delhi -110067 EDUCATION

PhD in Geography (Regional Development) Jan 2014 till Sep 2019 (Submitted) Centre for the Study of Geography in Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University

(JNU), New Delhi, India

Research Title: An Assessment of Land Cover, Land Surface temperature on Urban Heat Island MPhil in Geography (Regional Development) 2011-2014 (Obtain 7) Centre for the Study of Geography in Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University

(JNU), New Delhi, India

Research Title: An Assessment of Air Quality, Weather Parameters and Land cover classification by Landsat: A Case Study of Delhi.

Masters in Physical Geography (Climatology in environmental programming) 2006- 2009 (Obtain 98.9%)

Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Research Title: Analysis of spatial-temporal variation of climate change on plant adaptation in Iran

Bachelor in Physical Geography 2002- 2006 (Obtain 85.5%) Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

TECHNICAL/PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Climate Modelling and Statistical Downscaling 01-06 December 2016 Centre for the Study of Geography in Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University

(JNU), New Delhi, India

Specialized training course "GIS - Geographic Information Systems in Land use and Land cover classification April 2017

Centre for the Study of Geography in Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University

(JNU), New Delhi, India

GIS for Environmental planning and monitoring in Delhi, 21-24 2013, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Department of Space, GOI Training online presentation “Climate change and urban adaptation”. Adaptation Training School, Delhi university 19 February 2013 Delhi University, Delhi, India

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Geographical Information System (GIS)" using ARC/INFO August 2018- October 2018 Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Govt. of India PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Joiner GIS technician JNU, India October 2018

• Assisting the Deputy Network Referencing Manager in managing ArcGIS licences and supporting staff in the use of Mapping Technology and ArcGIS

• Mapping asset data under the supervision of the Deputy Network Referencing Manager

• Integrating and developing GIS services for the earth science disciplines

• Development of GIS services and delivery of GIS products to the Environmental Services (EIA) teams

• Developing knowledge of Health and Safety Responsibilities and of other company procedures

• Working well in a team

• Assisting with team and project administration

Advisor to undergraduate students on their dissertation project 3rd years M.A, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Department of Geography (CSRD) Delhi, India July 2015 till July 2019

• Support the activities of the CSRD

• Coordinate information, and teaching GIS

• Develop and prepare reports/plans

Joiner Researcher climate change, environment and sustainable development Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi CSRD, New Delhi, India Jan 2012

• Adaptation to local climate change in Delhi with a focus on Land use and Land cover changes

• Climatic extremes and Heat hazards

• Analysing effects of culture on risk perception, disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation;

• Research on adaptation to climate change – research, advisory work, capacity-building, policy advice

• Disaster risk reduction – research, advisory work, capacity-building

• Rural livelihoods, poverty and vulnerability analysis;

• Numerical modelling and model development

Joiner Reacher Climate Change Adaptation Specialist for Yadegar Emam University 2009- 2010

• Building Adaptive Capacity and Resilience to Climate Change in the university

• Capacity Development for geography centre to address Climate Change in Iran

• Integrating Geodata and scientific approaches in Climate Change Adaptation in Iran Climate & Sustainability Researcher CPCB, India Nov 2018

• Provided sustainability consulting services to clients in education, government, and industry. Key

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• projects included greenhouse gas reporting tools for Bosch Automotive and Cabot Cheese.

TEACHING SERVICES

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Mentorship Fall 2009-November 2019 Centre for the study of regional development, New Delhi. India Geography teacher (volunteer) in Ladakh-Hilfe/REWA Society For Primary level (4-6 class) and for disabled children in the level of high school (10-12 class) August 2015 till August 2019

• Planned lessons which adhered to the objectives of the curriculum while utilizing a variety of teaching methodologies.

• Established positive relationships with students to facilitate learning.

• Used an effective teaching style to ensure students remained disciplined and attentive.

• Provided the parents of students with feedback at meetings.

• Contributed to staff and departmental meetings.

Cultural ambassador (President of international students) Jawaharlal Nehru University August 2015 till August 2016

• Led the team of 400+ members from 60 country

• Supervise and coordinate the activities of the organization.

• Preside over all meetings and call all meetings to order.

• Maintain communication with the Office of Student Involvement and ensure that all

• Be one of three signers on financial documents.

• Be responsible for creating a budget at the beginning of each fall and spring semester, in conjunction with the Treasurer.

• Ensure that all officers are familiar with this Constitution, via a review to happen within one month of officer installation.

• Ensure that all officers are performing their duties as defined in this Constitution.

• Keep advisor informed of the activities and functions of the organization.

• Be familiar with Robert’s Rules of Order to conduct meetings.

• Be familiar with the Golden Rule regulations as they relate to student organizations and communicate them to the organization as needed.

• Provide all documents and records pertaining to their responsibilities to the newly- elected President.

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PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

6. Mina Babazadeh, Neha Yadav Managing the natural disasters in the coastal areas- reinforcing coastal zone disaster management. Collaborative International workshop on Reinforcing Coastal Zone Management; saving lives, habitats and livelihood of people. Special centre for disaster research, old CRS building. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India to the new funding schemes of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)” published in International Journal of Research in Social Sciences, Germany, October 2012 5. Mina Babazadeh, Parvender Kumar “Estimation of the Urban Heat Island in Local Climate Change and Vulnerability Assessment for Air Quality in Delhi” published in South Asian Academic Research Journal, Vol. 4/37, Nov- Dec 2015, Page no. 8593-8601 4. Mina Babazadeh, Parvender Kumar, “Comparison between Land Use and Worker Status in Rural and Urban Area in Delhi (1991 & 2001),” published in South Asian Academic Research Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 6, November 2012, Page no. 384-388 3. Mina Babazadeh, Parvender Kumar, “Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Delhi 1999 and 2006” published in South Asian Academic Research Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 3, September 2017, Page no. 580-585

2. Mina Babazadeh, “The survey weather condition in tourism development in Shiraz. with method TCI” published in SEPEHR Journal, Vol. 8, Issue 8, August 2017, Page no. 178-186 1. Mina Babazadeh, “The survey potential formation smog in TEHRAN city Geography Specialized Quarterly” Published in physical geography, Vol.12, pp 65-72. Under-review

1. “Detection of Inter-Seasonal Variations of Urban Thermal Environment in Delhi.” Journal of Metrology Society of India, (special issue) Springer Nature. Submitted August 2019 2. “Analysis of relationship between land use and land cover changes on air quality in Delhi “Journal of Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Submitted September 2019, Resubmitted Oct 2019

3. “Microclimate changes in land surface temperatures across Heat island in Delhi” Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, Submitted August 2019 Previous work and Projects in the field of Regional and modelling development 1. Review and evaluation of Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis system, and advice on how to incorporate climate change and urban risk, Centre for the study of regional development 2010- 2012 INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2009: “A survey on the trend of air pollutants in the smog formation in Tehran city”, Journal planning and Geography. Iran, pp 13-18.

2009: “Analysis of ancient inscriptions about the Persian Gulf”, The Second International Conference of The Persian Gulf (History, Civilization and Culture) 15-16 November 2009, in Tehran University. Iran.

2016: “Evaluation of Suspended Particulate Matter and Land Cover Change on Air Quality in Delhi” 9th International Geographical Union (IGU) Conference Land Use Change, Climate Extremes and Disaster Risk Reduction. March 18-20. CV, Mina Babazadeh pg. 5

2016: “Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Variations of Land Surface Temperature of Delhi Based on Urbanized Environment Analysis” 9th International Geographical Union (IGU) Conference Land Use Change, Climate Extremes and Disaster Risk Reduction. March 18-20, 2016

2017: “The Estimation of land surface temperature for seasonal scale simulations of snow cover in the microclimate area of Jammu” 16th APG Meet and National Conference on “Changing Mountain Environment, Resource Utilization and Sustainable Livelihood,” University of Jammu. India.

MEMBERSHIP AND INTERNSHIP

UCCRN Urban Climate Change Research Network 2018-2019 SCIRN Shrinking Cities International Research Network 2019- 2020 Ecuador: Climate Change Mitigation, Agroforestry, and Forest Conservation 2019 AWARD FELLOWSHIP

UGC Scholarship

2015-2019; Junior Research Fellowship from University Grant Commotions of India Academic Award, New Delhi, India.

ICSSR Award

2013-2014; Junior Fellowship from Indian Council of social science research, New Delhi. India 2018: Workshop on “Reinforcing Coastal Zone Management Saving Lives, Habitats and Livelihood of People” at Special Centre for Disaster Research (SCDR) JNU Best Paper Award Adaptive research and further building upon traditional knowledge and wisdom

2017: Workshop on Disasters and Community Resilience in the North-eastern States, SCDR, JNU

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Animal saviour Group JNU 2011-Present

• Led a campaign against animal abuse and cruelty in the JNU campus and established a helpline to support the cause

• Established a network of students and officials to organise the annual workshop to promote animal rights and safety

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Humanitarian Response Volunteer during Uttarakhand Disaster Rudraprayag August 2013

• Worked in association with Primary Health Centres (PHC) and Aganwadis to conduct an assessment of the nutritional status of Children Under-five age group

• Spread the awareness about Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) Volunteer teacher at Ladakh-Hilfe/REWA Society, Ladakh August 2015- August 2019

• Prepares objectives and lesson plans for Math and Science courses, incorporating the use of technology

• Established and maintained positive relationships with students and staffs fostering an environment of open communication and support

• Counselled students when adjustment and academic problems arose

• Taught geography and environmental science to high school students

• Created physical and digital school libraries

• Managed a school's computer and network systems

SKILLS

Skill Obtain during M.Phil/ PhD Degree in Geography July 2011 till September 2019 GIS development;

• Design and develop GIS database systems;

• Perform GIS analysis and mapping;

• Perform Remote Sensing analysis;

• Develop GIS database management software (language: Avenue, Arc Object, Open layer, Open source)

• Geoprocessing with ArcGIS Desktop, Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst, geodatabase creation and management, raster and vector processing and analysis, cartography

• Application to geological and geomorphological studies, environmental issues, natural hazard assessment

• Ability to perform spatial analysis through basic SQL and spatial queries.

• Ability to perform quality control checks of GIS data

• Ability to create, manage, and convert geo-databases and coverages into other formats

Field trip planning, and data collection and analysis;

• Planning and designing field trips;

• Collecting statistic data and conducting interviews to collect data from fieldwork;

• Analysis of geospatial data by GIS software and non-spatial data by SPSS.

• Training: Regularly train other staff in data collection and GIS software using;

• Take trainer for some short courses of GIS applying and GIS software

• GPS, wildfire ecology, wetland, forest habitat assessments, vegetation species identification, extensive geological identification skills CV, Mina Babazadeh pg. 7

LANGUAGES

• English; Full professional proficiency

• French; Full professional proficiency

• Persian; Full professional proficiency

• Hindi; Full professional proficiency

• Turkish; Full professional proficiency

• Urdu; Full professional proficiency

REFERENCES

1-Dr S. Sreekesh

Centre for the Study of Regional Development. School of Social Sciences Off. Phon: 26704574

Email: ada0bt@r.postjobfree.com

Personal ;webpage: http://www.jnu.ac.in

2-Professor B.S. Butola

Centre for the Study of Regional Development. School of Social Sciences Off. Phone: 26704468

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3-Professor Bhupinder Zutshi

Centre for the Study of Regional Development. School of Social Sciences Off. Phon: 26704188

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Personal webpage: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/bzutshi/CV.pdf

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