Hadi Arbabi

Dr. Hadi Arbabi is a Lecturer in the Built Environment at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield. Their research focuses on resource consumption, productivity, and climate resilience in urban systems, integrating data-driven urban analytics with planning frameworks.

• Research Interests: Infrastructure resilience, urban scaling, urban metabolism, network analysis, city morphology, population allometry.
• Methodologies: Mobile-sensing platforms, computer vision, 3D urban mapping, ecological network analysis, and probabilistic climate modeling.
• Recent Articles (2025–2022): Explored topics include urban material stocks, climate-resilient infrastructure, energy prediction models, and geodemographic regional development.
• Metrics: Over 340 citations and an h-index of 11 on Google Scholar as of July 2025.

Hadi leads the Resources, Infrastructure Systems and built Environments (RISE) group and coordinates Architectural Engineering programs, contributing to Energy and Sustainability specialism in General Engineering. They emphasize circular economic strategies and multi-scale urban analysis to address planetary resource constraints.