Resilience vs Pandemics

Ali Cheshmehzangi is the world's top 2% field leader, recognized by Stanford University. He is an urbanist and an urban designer with over 17 years of academic and practice experience. He leads initiatives in applied research and diligently works on co-creating synergies among academia, industry, and government. He is currently in a senior leadership and management role at Qingdao City University where he is a professor in Architecture and Urban Planning and the director/head of the Center for Innovation in Education and Research and leads international communications and certification for the university. He previously held several senior, leadership, and management roles as a full professor in Architecture and Urban Design, the head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, the founding director of the Urban Innovation Lab, the founding director of the International Network for Urban-Rural Research, the director of Center for Sustainable Energy Technologies, the founder and the head of Research Group for Sustainable Built Environment, and the interim director of Digital Design Lab. He was a visiting professor and now a research associate of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS), Hiroshima University, Japan. So far, Ali has published over 300 journal papers, articles, conference papers, book chapters, and reports. He also has another 18 academic books. Ali is an editor-in-chief of Springer's Urban Sustainability Book Series and is globally known for his research in this prominent field. He has several award-wining books and has received several scholarly awards for his contribution and impact on higher education, applied research, and policy development.