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Prof. Dr. Nima Shokri

Prof. Dr. Nima Shokri received his BSc and MSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and earned his PhD in 2009 from the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich before joining Boston University in the United States as an Assistant Professor (2010–2012). In 2013, he moved to The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, where he served as Lecturer (2013–2016) and Senior Lecturer (2016–2020). In July 2020, he was appointed Chair and Professor of Geo-Hydroinformatics at Hamburg University of Technology. Since May 2024, he has also served as Executive Co-Director of the United Nations University Hub on Engineering to Face Climate Change at TUHH.

Prof. Shokri’s research addresses fundamental and emerging challenges at the intersection of water, soil, climate, and the environment. His work seeks to understand, quantify, and predict complex multiscale and multiphase processes near the Earth’s surface, with particular emphasis on interactions between soil, water, and the atmosphere and their response to climatic and environmental pressue. A central focus of his research is the development of innovative approaches for observing and predicting environmental processes across spatial and temporal scales. By combining fundamental process understanding with advanced experiments, environmental sensing, computational modelling, satellite remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and big-data analytics, his research aims to extract new knowledge from increasingly diverse and complex environmental datasets. This integration of physics-based understanding with data-driven approaches enables improved characterization and prediction of processes that are difficult to observe using conventional methods alone. Through this interdisciplinary approach, Prof. Shokri aims to bridge fundamental porous-media science, environmental observations, and predictive modelling to generate actionable knowledge for addressing pressing challenges related to water security, soil degradation and salinization, land–atmosphere interactions, and climate resilience. His research ultimately seeks to advance our ability to understand and predict environmental change and to support more informed and sustainable management of soil and water resources.

For more details about his research and teaching activities as well as his publication list, see his Curriculum Vitae.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Nima Shokri
Head of Institute
Hamburg University of Technology
Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics B-9
Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 3 (E)
21073 Hamburg, Germany
Email: nima.shokri(at)tuhh.de
Phone: +49 40 30601 2870
Website: www.tuhh.de/ghi

Invited talks and seminars

  1.  Invited Speaker, Imperial College London, London, UK, 30 January 2026
  2. Invited Speaker, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China, 09 January 2026
  3. Invited Speaker, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China, 08 January 2026
  4. Invited Speaker, Hunan University, Changsha, China, 29 December 2025
  5. Invited Speaker, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, 21 December 2025
  6. Invited Speaker, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China, 18 December 2025
  7. Invited Speaker, GeoGPT, Hangzhou, China, 03 August 2025
  8. Invited Speaker, Hunan University, Changsha, China, 31 July 2025
  9. Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Water Sustainability in the Middle East: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Lund, Sweden, May 13, 2025
  10. Invited Speaker, BugControl Workshop, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, 22 January 2025
  11. Invited Speaker, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, 06 January 2025
  12. Invited Speaker, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 08 December 2024
  13. Invited Speaker of the Side Event on “Greening Degraded Landscapes: Developing Sustainable Afforestation Strategies in Degraded Croplands” at UNCCD 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (UNCCD COP16), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 05 December 2024
  14. Invited Speaker of the Side Event on “Innovative Techniques for Mapping and Monitoring Degraded Land Using Earth Observation” at UNCCD 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (UNCCD COP16), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 04 December 2024
  15. Invited Speaker and Panelist at the Opening Event “Advancements in Drought and Extreme Events Management” at UNCCD 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (UNCCD COP16), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 02 December 2024
  16. Invited Speaker, The United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), Dresden, Germany, 29 October, 2024
  17. Invited contribution to the Plenary Session on Ecosystems at Drought Resilience +10 Conference organized by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Geneva, Switzerland, 30 September – 02 October 2024
  18. Invited Speaker, First National Conference on Porous Media, Iran InterPore Chapter, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 25 September, 2024
  19. Invited Speaker, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Richmond Hill, Canada, 11 September, 2024
  20. Invited Speaker, Coupled Free Flow Porous Medium Systems Workshop, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 14 June, 2024
  21. Invited Speaker, Grant Writing Workshop, Interpore Annual International Conference on Porous Media, Qingdao, China, 16 May 2024
  22. Invited Speaker, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 12 December, 2023
  23. Invited Speaker, KlimaCampus Kolloquium, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, 07 December, 2023
  24. Invited Speaker, Launch of Sustainability AID Programme, United Nation University - Flores, Dresden, Germany, 28 November, 2023
  25. Invited speaker, Opportunities and challenges in CO2 geologic utilization and storage Workshop, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 23 February, 2023
  26. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, PintPFS Conference, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, 25 September, 2022
  27. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Invited speaker, CLICCS Lecture Series, Hamburg, Germany, 14 December, 2021
  28. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 07 October 2021
  29. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, 5 February, 2021
  30. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 26 January, 2021
  31. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, PoreLab Lecture Series, Trondheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, 13 January, 2021
  32. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Graduate College - Processes in Natural and Technical Particle-Fluid Systems, TUHH, Hamburg, Germany, 16 December, 2020
  33. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran, 10 December, 2020
  34. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, IMFT, Toulouse, France, 13 February, 2020
  35. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Princeton University, Princeton, USA, 13 February, 2019
  36. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, 05 December, 2018
  37. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 16 November, 2018
  38. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, SANRU, Sari, Iran, 26 August 2018
  39. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 29 March, 2018
  40. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 20 October, 2017
  41. Shokri, N., Keynote speaker, 17th Fluid Dynamics Conference, Shahrood, Iran, August 2017
  42. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, 09 April, 2017
  43. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Flow & Transport in Permeable Media, Girona, Spain, July 31-August 5, 2016
  44. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, PMPM and UK InterPore Joint Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, 13-15 January, 2016
  45. Shokri, N., Keynote speaker, workshop on “Interfaces and Interfacial Displacement in Unsaturated Porous Media”, Potsdam, Germany, 10 March 2015
  46. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, 6th International Conference on Porous Media, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the USA, May 28, 2014
  47. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, NUPUS workshop on Evaporation and Coupling, Freudenstadt, Germany, March 10, 2014
  48. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, July 24, 2013
  49. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2, 2013
  50. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Distinguished Speakers Seminar Series, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, January 30, 2013
  51. Shokri, N., Invited  speaker, Universität Magdeburg, Germany, October 24, 2012
  52. Shokri, N., Keynote speaker, CRYSPOM III workshop titled ‘Crystallization in Porous Materials’, Trói, Portugal, 4-7 September 2012
  53. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Laboratoire FAST de l’Universit´e Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, July 4, 2012
  54. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, workshop on 'Drying in building and soil materials', Saint-Gobain-Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, Paris, France, July 3, 2012
  55. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, USA, June 14, 2010
  56. Shokri, N., Invited speaker, Doctoral program in mechanics talk, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 5, 2008