Current Position

Research Assistant - Postdoc

Current research projects

DISTENDER:

DISTENDER is an EU-funded project developing strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The DISTENDER consortium consists of 31 partners from 14 European countries. The UoC group in DISTENDER, aims at modelling the impact of different climate and socio-economic scenarios upon water fluxes and water resources focusing particularly on drought and flood effects. The model results will be used to assess trade-offs of mitigation and adaptation strategies in different case studies representing different climate zones and socio-economic situations in order to identify and assess robust strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation. We will focus on numerical modeling of hydrological processes particularly with regards to a): Mesoscale modeling of floods and droughts in selected European watersheds using simple hydrological model and b) detailed modeling of water resources and floods using more sophisticated models.

Research topics

• River Hydraulic and Flood Modelling
• Salinity and Water Quality Modelling
• Rainfall Runoff Modeling
• Hydrological modeling in the context of climate change
• Integrated Water resource management & Optimization
• Integrated Flood Management
• Water resource management
• Climatology and Hydrology

Education

• Promotion (Ph.D.) (2016) in Civil Engineering-Water Resource Management.
• Title of Thesis: Simulation-Optimization Model for Integrated Flood Risk Management in Multi River-Reservoir systems.    
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) (2005) in Civil Engineering -Hydraulic Engineering
• Title of Master thesis: Comparative of Applying MIKE11 and SMS Models in Numerical Simulation Advection-Dispersion Concentration in Rivers
• Bachelor (B.Sc.) (2002) in Civil Engineering

Scientific Employments

•   5/2015 - 10/2015 visiting Researcher at the University of Potsdam, working group Hydrology and Climatology
• 10/2015 - 04/2018 visiting Researcher at the Humboldt-University Berlin
• 04/2017 - 02/2021 visiting Researcher at the University of Potsdam, working group Hydrology and Climatology

Publications and Conference talks

Journal Publications

• M. Zargar, H. Mohammad Vali Samani, A. Haghighi, (2016) “ Optimization of Gated Spillways Operation for Flood Risk Management in Multi-Reservoir Systems” Journal of Natural Hazards-Springer, 2016, Volume 82, Issue 1, pp 299–320, DOI 10.1007/s11069-016-2202-7 
• M. Zargar, H. Mohammad Vali Samani, A. Haghighi, (2016) “Optimization of Gated Spillways Operation in Multi-Reservoir Systems by Using GA Case study Dez and Bakhtiyari Dams” JOURNAL OF HYDRAULICS, Iran; 2015, Volume 10, Number 2; Page(s) 27 To 43.
• A. Smetanová, A. Müller, M. Zargar, M. A. Suleiman, F. Rabei Gholami, M. Mousavi, (2020) “Mesoscale Mapping of Sediment Source Hotspots for Dam Sediment Management in Data-Sparse Semi-Arid Catchments”, Water 2020, 12, 396; doi:10.3390/w12020396

Conference Publications

• M. Zargar, S. A .A. Salehi Neyshabouri, "2-Dimensional Modelling of Advection-Dispersion Pollution in the Rivers" 2th National Congress on Civil Engineering, May, 2005, Univ. of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
• M. Zargar, S. A .A. Salehi Neyshabouri, "Evaluation of Effective Parameters in Advection- Dispersion of concentration in the Rivers With Using MIKE11" 5th Iranian Hydraulics Conference, May, 2005, Univ. of Kerman , Kerman, Iran
• M. Zargar, L.Modabber, "Using Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) Global Optimization Method to Calibrate MIKE11 Model Parameters" 4th National Congress on Civil Engineering, May, 2008, Univ. of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
• M. Zargar, S. Mahmodi Kordestani, "Hydraulic Modelling of Marun Dam Break Using MIKE11 Software" 2th National Conference of Dams and Hydropower, May, 2008, Tehran, Iran
• M. Zargar, S. A .A. Salehi Neyshabouri,  "Comparative of Appling MIKE11 and SMS Models in Numerical Simulation Advection-Dispersion Concentration in rivers" 8th International Congress on Civil Engineering, May , 2009, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
• M. Zargar, H. Mohammad Vali Samani,  "Evaluation of Effective Parameters in Advection- Dispersion of Salinity in the tidal  Rivers With Using MIKE11 and Comparative With Analytical Model " 8th International Congress on Civil Engineering, May , 2009, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
• K.W. Olesen, H. Hassoni Zadeh, M. Zargar, A. Khayatzadeh, "Pilot Modeling of Marun Catchment and Shadegan Wetland" 8th International Congress on Civil Engineering, May , 2009, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
• M. Zargar, H. Mohammad Vali Samani, "Optimal Flood Control of Zoheh River Catchment Using Upstream Dams" 8th International River Engineering Conference, Shahid Chamran University, 2010, Ahvaz, Iran
• M. Zargar, S.M. Mousavi, H. Mohammad Vali Samani, “Evaluating the Flood Distribution on Dez River Flood control by using Suitable Mathematical Model (Case Study: Flood at March 2016)” 5th Comprehensive Conference on Flood Engineering and Management 2017, Tehran, Iran.
• M. Ghitasi, H. Mohammad Vali Samani, M. Zargar, “Finding the pollution source in the river by using MIKE11 software and the genetic algorithm”, 16th Iranian Hydraulics Conference, 2017, Univ. of Ardabil, Ardabil, Iran
• Morteza Zargar, Iman Moozarm Nia, Satar Nori Rad,” Salinity analysis at the end of Karun River due to drought in 1397-96”.11th International River Engineering Conference, 2019, Ahvaz, Iran.
• Seyedeh Maryam Mousavi, Morteza Zargar, Ebrahim Najaran, Laleh Modaber,” Producing flood maps by Mike flood 1D-2D model in karkheh River and its tributaries”, 11th International River Engineering Conference, 2019, Ahvaz, Iran.
• Morteza Zargar, Ebrahim Najaran, Reza Sabzivand,“Calculate Influence of Persian Gulf salinity to Arvand River by using mathematical model” 11th International River Engineering Conference, 2019, Ahvaz, Iran.