Amin Khiali-Miab
Assistant Professor Dr. Sc. ETHZ

School of Industrial Engineering
Iran University of Science and Technology

Contact

Email: amin_khiali AT iust.ac.ir
Tel:   +98-21-7322-5013
Social Media: Google Scholar, ORCID, LinkedIn

Education and qualifications

• Doctor of Sciences (Ph.D)     Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich)       2023

• Master of Science (M.Sc.)    Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)                     2015

 • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)    Univerisyt of Tabriz                                                            2012

Research Interests

  • Complex Systems and Networks

  • Optimisation

  • Sustainable Development

  • Cities 

Teaching Experiences

• Graduate Courses

      •  Graph Theory (IUST)

      •   Simulation-Based Optimisation (IUST)

      •   Regional Economics (IUST)

      •   Transdisciplinary Case Studies (ETH Zurich)

      •  Research Methods and Graduate Seminar (ETH Zurich)

•  Undergraduate Courses

      •   Special Topics (Complex Networks) (IUST)

      •  Facilities Planning (IUST)

      •   Principles of Academic writing (IUST)

      •   Academic English (IUST) 

Selected Publications

1- Khiali-Miab A., Krütli P., Patt A. , (2024), “Empowering a sustainable urban future: The key role of coordinated settlement development for optimising energy efficiency and socio-economic welfare”, Sustainable Cities and Society .       

2- Khiali-Miab A., et al, (2024), “Explaining the socio-economic output of urban regions with a model combining urban scaling and polycentricity”, Book Chapter in Urban Scaling: Allometry in Urban Studies and Spatial Science, Routledge.

3- Khiali-Miab A., Grêt-Regamey A., Axhausen K., van Strien M., (2021), “A network optimisation approach to identify trade-offs between socio-economic and ecological objectives for regional integrated planning”, City and Environment Interactions.

4- Khiali-Miab A., van Strien M., Axhausen K., Grêt-Regamey A., (2019), “Combining urban scaling and polycentricity to explain socio-economic status of urban regions”, PLOS One.

5- van Strien M., Khiali-Miab A., et al, (2018), “Models of Coupled Settlement and Habitat Networks for Biodiversity Conservation: Conceptual Framework, Implementation and Potential Applications”, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 

Selected Conference Presentations

1- “Optimising settlement network topology to maximise socio-economic and biodiversity indicators”

Global Land Program 2019, University of Bern, Switzerland

2- “Combining polycentricity and urban scaling to explain socio-economic variables”

WICI 2018, University of Waterloo, Canada

3- “Monitoring polycentric settlement development using a hierarchy-based network indicator”

Complex Networks 2017, University of Lyon, France

Research Projects

1- HAPOS: Human-AI Participatory Optimisation of Spatial Networks

ISTI- Vice-Presidency for Science,Technology and Knowledge Economy (2025-2026)

2- TDCs2023: Sustainable Land Use in the Seychelles II – Rethinking the Sustainability of Tourism

ETH Zurich (2022-2023), Switzerland, Seychelles

3- CHECNET: Coupling Human and Ecological Networks for Sustainable Landscape and Transport Planning

 SNSF (2016-2020), Switzerland

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