Dr Solmaz Hosseinioon
RMIT University
About
Dr. Solmaz Hosseinioon is a researcher, urban designer, planner, and resilience expert with over two decades of extensive experience in development across multiple scales, from national to local levels. Solmaz has an extensive research record addressing a wide array of urban plans and regulations, resilience, sustainable development, heritage, placemaking, informality, and disaster management. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and two master's degrees in urban design and architecture from Iran. In addition to her several academic publications, many of which focus on urban resilience, she has authored several reports and strategic documents in the fields of development and resilience.
Working at the urban-policy-community interface, Solmaz has worked in the nexus of resilience, urban design and placemaking, adaptation capacity building, multi-hazards, and climate change. She is an expert in disaster resilience whose work utilises complex adaptive systems, policy, strategy, and investment, using qualitative methodologies to conceptualise and effect change in disaster resilience in Australia, Iran, and the international scene. In addition to her academic career, she has made significant contributions to raising knowledge and engagement in communities. She has designed and led several workshops on urban resilience for professionals, academia, and decision-makers, held by public and private institutions, NGOs, UN-Habitat, and other international organizations.