Dr Hadi Arbabi (he/they)

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Lecturer in the Built Environment

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h.arbabi@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5751
Room F132, Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)

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Dr Hadi Arbabi
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Room F132
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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My research focuses on the challenges relating to resource consumption and productivity in urban systems in the context of planetary resource capacity and extreme climate change.

Dr Hadi Arbabi

Hadi's work and research interests sit at the interface of data-driven urban analytics and planning. Their overall body of research focuses on the challenges relating to resource consumption and productivity in urban systems often in the context of planetary resource capacity and extreme climate change. Hadi has previously worked on spatially multi-scale examinations of urban systems and the extent to which their performance is influenced by their embedded physical infrastructure. Hadis other interests include urban complexity, population scaling and allometry, city morphology and infrastructure planning for agglomeration, network analysis of urban flows, stocks, and metabolism.

Research interests

Infrastructure resilience

Urban scaling

Urban metabolism

Network analysis

Publications

Journal articles

  • Abbey D, Arbabi H & Densley Tingley D (2025) . Royal Society Open Science, 12(7).
  • Li Q, Arbabi H & Punzo G (2025) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 481(2317).
  • Hincks S, Arbabi H & Hamilton R (2025) . Regional Studies, 59(1).
  • Sheng Y, Arbabi H, Ward WO & Mayfield M (2025) . Energy and Buildings, 338, 115723-115723.
  • Sheng Y, Arbabi H, Ward WOC, lvarez MA & Mayfield M (2025) . Scientific Reports, 15(1).
  • Mihkelson W, Arbabi H, Hincks S & Tingley DD (2024) . Journal of Industrial Ecology, 28(3), 573-588.
  • Dai M, Jurczyk J, Arbabi H, Mao R, Ward W, Mayfield M, Liu G & Tingley DD (2024) . Environmental Science and Technology, 58(7), 3224-3234.
  • Li Q, Punzo G, Robson C, Arbabi H & Mayfield M (2024) . IEEE Systems Journal, 18(1), 24-35.
  • Arbabi H & Punzo G (2023) . Papers in Regional Science, 102(6), 1127-1145.
  • Tan LM, Arbabi H, Ward W, Li X, Tingley DD, Khan A & Mayfield M (2023) . Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 061006-061006.
  • Ward WOC, Li X, Sun Y, Dai M, Arbabi H, Tingley DD & Mayfield M (2023) . Building and Environment, 234, 110188-110188.
  • Punzo G & Arbabi H (2023) . Science of The Total Environment, 859, 159979-159979.
  • Dai M, Ward WOC, Arbabi H, Densley Tingley D & Mayfield M (2022) . Energies, 15(16).
  • Arbabi H, Meyers G, Tan L-M & Mayfield M (2022) . Sustainability, 14(7).
  • Li X, Arbabi H, Bennett G, Oreszczyn T & Densley Tingley D (2022) . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 161, 112384-112384.
  • Arbabi H, Lanau M, Li X, Meyers G, Dai M, Mayfield M & Densley Tingley D (2022) . Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(1), 58-71.
  • Tan LM, Arbabi H, Densley Tingley DO, Paul B & Mayfield M (2021) . npj Urban Sustainability, 1.
  • Arbabi H, Punzo G, Meyers G, Tan LM, Li Q, Densley Tingley D & Mayfield M (2020) . Royal Society Open Science, 7(4), 200087-200087.
  • Arbabi H, Mayfield M & McCann P (2020) . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 183(1), 211-228.
  • Tan LM, Arbabi H, Brockway PE, Densley Tingley D & Mayfield M (2019) . Applied Energy, 254, 113618-113618.
  • Arbabi H, Mayfield M & Dabinett G (2019) . Regional Studies, 53(6), 887-899.
  • Arbabi H, Mayfield M & McCann P (2019) . Spatial Economic Analysis, 14(3), 301-320.
  • Tan LM, Arbabi H, Li Q, Sheng Y, Densley Tingley D, Mayfield M & Coca D (2018) . Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 138, 172-182.
  • Arbabi H, Tan LM & Mayfield M (2018) . Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 136, 463-465.
  • Arbabi H & Mayfield M (2016) . Buildings, 6(3).

Book chapters

  • Macrorie R, Arbabi H, Eadson W, Hanna R, McCluskey KC, Simpson K & Wade F (2024) In Crowther A, Foulds C, Robison R & Gladkykh G (Ed.), Strengthening European Energy Policy: Governance Recommendations From Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborations (pp. 73-85). Palgrave Macmillan Cham
  • Arbabi H & Tan LM (2022) , The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures (pp. 1423-1432). Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings

  • Wood T, Arbabi H & Mayfield M (2023)
  • Sheng Y, Ward WO, Arbabi H, lvarez M & Mayfield M (2022) . IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 1078(1) (pp 012038-012038)
  • Ward W, Dai M, Arbabi H, Sun Y, Tingley D & Mayfield M (2022) . IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 1078(1) (pp 012036-012036)
  • Abbey D, Arbabi H, Gillott C, Ward W & Tingley DD (2022) . IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 1078(1) (pp 012016-012016)

Reports

  • Arbabi H, Pannell J, Hincks S & Punzo G (2020) Quantifying agglomeration productivity in long-term infrastructure planning
Research group

Grants

Teaching activities

Hadi is the program coordinator for Architectural Engineering programs and contributes to project and dissertation supervision often across the Energy and Sustainability specialism of the General Engineering program.

PhD opportunities

If you're interested in a PhD project please contact Hadi at the email above. Current PhD opportunities in the department can be viewed here.