Afshin Pourmokhtarian

Dr. Afshin Pourmokhtarian is an Assistant Professor of Construction Management at Wentworth Institute of Technology. His research interests are the nexus of climate change, built environment, resiliency, sustainability, and urbanization, as well as safety and risk management and innovative technology such as VR/AR. He has published several peer reviewed journal articles and presented numerous times at national and international conferences on climate change impacts on the Northeastern United States, land use and land cover changes, hydrologic and ecosystem modeling, and the impacts of climate change on construction. He worked as a designer and Project Manager on multiple offshore infrastructures (e.g., breakwater, jetty, etc.) as well as structural steel and concrete buildings. Prior to joining WIT, he was a postdoctoral research associate for four years at Boston University and collaborated on multiple funded projects from NSF, EPA, and MACROSYSTEM. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Civil Engineering, and his M.S. and B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Civil Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University and University of Tehran, respectively. He is accredited in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Also, he is an active member of several professional societies such as Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) and New England Chapter, Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts (AGCMA), Ecological Society of America (ESA), and American Geophysical Union (AGU).