Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah

Doctorate in Groundwater

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2009

Master in Agriculture

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2006

Bachelor in Geology

Kabul University, 2002

• Climate change impacts on water resources, climate change mitigation through using renewable energy resources using ArcGIS and Geo-special data.
• Peace building, climate change and migration.
• Groundwater resources investigation using Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES).
• Groundwater modelling using COMSOL Multiphysics

• Selected Publications:

• Aich, V.; Akhundzadah, N.A.; Knuerr, A.; Khoshbeen, A.J.; Hattermann, F.; Paeth, H.; Scanlon, A.; Paton, E.N. Climate Change in Afghanistan Deduced from Reanalysis and Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)—South Asia Simulations. Climate 2017, 5, 38, https://doi.org/10.3390/cli5020038.
• Akhundzadah, N. A.; Saito, H.; Asada, K.; Kato, M. Detecting Groundwater Flow Direction from Infrared Thermal Images. J. Groundw. Hydrol., 2012, 51, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.5917/jagh.51.113.
• Akhundzadah, N.A. 2021. Applied Hydrology, Faculty of Environment, University of Kabul, (in Dari).  
• Akhundzadah, N.A.; Soltani, S.; Aich, V. Impacts of Climate Change on the Water Resources of the Kunduz River Basin, Afghanistan. Climate 2020, 8, 102, https://doi.org/10.3390/cli8100102.
• Habib H., Noor Ahmad A., Wafa W., Hairan M.H. (2021) Environmental and Water Resources Management Study of Ghorband-Panjshir and Kunduz Rivers Basins, Afghanistan. In: Kulenbekov Z.E., Asanov B.D. (eds) Water Resource Management in Central Asia and Afghanistan. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68337-5_11.

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, scholarship for graduate study in Japan, 2003-2009.
• Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellow, 2023-2024

Bachelor Level Course, Faculty of Environment, Kabul University

• Applied Hydrology
• Environmental Geology
• Natural Disasters and Hazards