Fatemeh Barzegar

Research Student

Fatemeh Barzegar is affiliated with the Department of People and Organisations.

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Biography

Fatemeh has been awarded a fully funded PhD studentship from The Open University to pursue her passion for studying system resilience and sustainability in complex engineering projects. She has a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology (Iran) and MSc in Engineering Management from Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Before starting her PhD in September 2024, Fatemeh has been working in finance, manufacturing, retail, and academia for over five years.

As part of her MSc final project, Fatemeh worked within the Engineering Design Centre of Cambridge University (supervised by Prof. P. John Clarkson) for over 18 months, where she developed a systematic qualitative-quantitative methodology to investigate the functionality of Cambridge Advanced Modeller (CAM) software tool. The outcome of her previous research (and collaborations) has been published in a technical report by Cambridge Engineering Department, in an esteemed journal of Expert Systems with Application (studying the change propagation analysis) and a finalist poster at International CAE conference in Italy (studying change propagation in jet engine design).

Current Research

“Adaptive product development project planning to improve resilience”

This project aims to investigate the concept of resilience in product development process planning for circular product development projects and the features that make such a plan adaptive. The research will inform future development of models for assessing how these features are related and how they behave and can improve resilience.