{"id":3744,"date":"2016-04-10T12:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hebel.arch.ethz.ch\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:16:23","slug":"alireza-javadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/alireza-javadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alireza Javadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/250213_NB_025_sw-212x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/250213_NB_025_sw-212x283.jpg 212w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/250213_NB_025_sw.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>PhD, ETH Z\u00fcrich, 2017<br>Master of Civil Engineering, NTU Singapore, 2010<br>Master of&nbsp; Civil Engineering, NUS Singapore, 2011<br>MBA, ARU Oxford, UK, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:alireza.javadian@kit.edu\">alireza.javadian@kit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior researcher and Head of Research at the Chair of Sustainable Construction KIT Karlsruhe and Co-Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory of Singapore-ETH Centre, 2020 \u2013 present \/ Post-doc researcher at the Alternative Construction Materials Group at FCL Singapore, 2012-2020 \/ Civil Engineer at &#8216;Beca Carter Hollings and Ferner&#8217; Singapore, 2010-2012 \/ Researcher at NUS Singapore, 2009-2010 \/ A*STAR Singapore scholarship recipient at NTU Singapore, 2007-2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Alireza Javadian is currently a senior researcher and Head of Research at the Chair of Sustainable Construction at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT. He is also a Co-Principal Investigator of the Urban-Biocycle Project at the Future Cities Laboratory of Singapore-ETH Centre of Sustainability in Singapore. Alireza Javadian is currently working on the development of sustainable building materials made from renewable resources. His work on engineered bamboo and mycelium-bound building elements explore the idea of a new class of biological driven constrution materials embeded within a true circular economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has received the distinguished award by Singapore government for his work on development of Organic Fiber Composite Materials for Construction on the 50th anniversary of Singapore\u2019 independence in 2015. Furthermore, he won the SMART Innovation Grant Singapore, the SAWIRIS Grant from ETH Z\u00fcrich, a Swiss KTI project fund from Swiss National Research Foundation, and a ZUMTOBEL GROUP Award together with the research team in Singapore and Z\u00fcrich. He has also co-founded the Spin-off company Widuz to commercialize high performance bamboo composite materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD, ETH Z\u00fcrich, 2017Master of Civil Engineering, NTU Singapore, 2010Master of&nbsp; Civil Engineering, NUS Singapore, 2011MBA, ARU Oxford, UK, 2012 Contact: alireza.javadian@kit.edu Senior researcher and Head of Research at the Chair of Sustainable Construction KIT Karlsruhe and Co-Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory of Singapore-ETH Centre, 2020 \u2013 present \/ Post-doc researcher at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8IIze-Yo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10513,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/10513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}