Asad Asadzadeh is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Urban Planning and Land Management Group, University of Bonn, Germany. His general research interest is the development of dynamic models to frame and analyze urban resilience to the challenges posed by climatic and natural hazards. Asad is also interested in concepts and methods of transformational capacities of urban governance and planning systems to the challenges posed to local governments by the interactions of urbanization, climate change, and natural hazards.