Education
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science, Stanford University, USA.
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
- M.S. in Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
- B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lafayette College, USA.
- UMass Bernard Berger Award
- USAID PEER Grant Recipient ($250,000)
- UMass Amherst Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Finalist
- National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholar
- Carrol P Basset Civil Engineering Student Award
- Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society
- Food-water-energy nexus in urban systems
- Coupled human-hydrologic modeling
- Hydroclimate and economic growth
- Water resources management under climate change
Biography
In his interdisciplinary research, Dr. Hassaan F. Khan tackles water resource allocation and management questions using integrated water systems analysis. At HU, Dr. Khan is leading an interdisciplinary research group (KWP) engaged in investigating approaches to improve water management in Karachi. You can learn more about the group here: https://www.karachiwaterproject.com/
Before joining Habib, Dr. Hassaan was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University in the Department of Earth System Science working with Dr. Steven Gorelick. At Stanford, he was part of the FUSE team developing integrated hydrogeologic and human systems model to inform sustainable urban water management in Amman (Jordan) and Pune (India).
Dr Hassaan completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At UMass, he worked with Dr. Casey Brown studying water management under climate change in several river basins including the Indus, Niger, Mekong and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Basins. His doctoral work focused on designing a coupled human-nature modeling framework to simulate the impacts of water management decisions on the food-water-energy-environment (FWEE) nexus at a watershed scale. He has also performed econometric analyses of the impact of water variability on global economic growth as part of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth. Dr Hassaan graduated from Lafayette College with a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2013. Studying engineering in a liberal arts setting at Lafayette shaped much of his personal and professional thought and spurred his interest in environmental stewardship. Outside of his water research, he enjoys reading about South Asian and Middle Eastern history, cooking, and soccer. He is originally from Karachi, Pakistan.
Selected Publications
- Khan, H. F. and Arshad. S.A. (2022) Beyond Water Scarcity: Water (In)Security and Social Justice in Karachi, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101140
- Anwar, N., Khan, H. F., et al. (2022). Designed to Fail? Heat governance in urban South Asia: The case of Karachi, Cool Infrastructures: Life with Heat in the Off-grid City. http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/2180
- FRANÇOIS, B., Khan, H.F., et al. (2021). Long Term Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Water Enterprise – Phase I. Project 4703. Denver, CO: The Water Research Foundation.
- Akhtar, T., Khan, H. F., & Mustafa, D. (2021). Water security in Pakistan: availability, accessibility and utilisation. In M. A. Watto, M. Mitchell, & S. Bashir (Eds.), Water resources of Pakistan: issues and impacts (pp. 57-78). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65679-9_4
- Khan, H. F., Yang, Y. C. E., Wi, S. (2020) Case Study on Hydropolitics in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Energy and Water Impacts of Kunar River Development, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001262.
- Khan, H. F. and Brown, C. (2019) Effect of Hydrogeologic and Climatic Variability on Performance of a Groundwater Market, Water Resources Research, 55, doi:10.1029/2018WR024180
