Dr Fateme Zare

Fateme is a Research Associate at Capability Systems Center, University of New South Wales (UNSW Canberra). Her research focus is on computational and participatory approaches for modelling socio-ecological systems, with a particular focus on water resources and the use of integrated modelling.

 Fateme obtained her PhD from Fenner School of Environment and society at Australian National University (2016-2020), where she worked on "Designing and evaluating practices and tools to improve integrated assessment and modelling processes in the water sector". Before starting her PhD, Fateme has 6 years’ experience in international projects of environment and water management.

Research Interests

• Natural Resource Management and Governance
• Human–natural systems modelling
• Decision Support and Policy Making
• Uncertainty
• Systems Thinking and System dynamics modelling
• Participatory processes.

 Supervision:

I am keen to work with new collaborators and available to supervisor Honours, Masters and PhD students. PhD scholarships ($35,000 per year) are available for high-achieving students (with H1/High Distinction in UG and/or Masters by Research) under my supervision.

A self-assessment tool is available to get a general feel for your competitiveness. You need to meet the English language requirements. If you are eligible and interested in working on the listed research interest or closely related topics or keywords, please send me your CV, academic transcripts, the result of the self-assessment, and a research proposal (less than 3 pages). 

Please feel free to get in contact with me at f.zare@adfa.edu.au