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    "name": "Pakdad Langroudi",
    "label": "Researcher — Predictive Maintenance & Infrastructure Asset Management",
    "email": "me@pakdad.com",
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    "summary": "Engineer and researcher working where data science meets physical infrastructure. I develop predictive maintenance and asset management methods: models that estimate how far a buried, hard-to-inspect asset has moved through its service life, and frameworks that turn that estimate into a defensible decision about intervention. My work spans the full chain — instrumenting lab experiments and writing the software that drives them, characterising material ageing by spectroscopy and X-ray microscopy, simulating thermal and mechanical loading history, and training models on years of operational time-series data. District heating networks have been the proving ground; the underlying problem of managing ageing, hard-to-inspect assets is common to water, gas, power and transport infrastructure.",
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    {
      "name": "HafenCity Universität Hamburg",
      "position": "Research Associate, Infrastructure Engineering",
      "startDate": "2019",
      "location": "Hamburg",
      "summary": "Research on predictive maintenance, ageing and asset management of district heating infrastructure.",
      "highlights": [
        "Introduced X-ray microscopy, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR / FT-NIR) to the study of polyurethane foam ageing in pre-insulated pipes — none previously applied to this material for this purpose.",
        "Developed the processing algorithms for these measurements from scratch, as no laboratory software existed capable of the analysis.",
        "Built back-simulation methods that reconstruct the thermal loading history of networks from sparse operational records.",
        "Developed a scenario-based algorithmic framework for sustainable asset management of district heating networks.",
        "Nine first-author publications across journals, conference proceedings and institutional reports."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "HafenCity Universität Hamburg",
      "position": "Student Assistant, Data Analysis & Software Development",
      "startDate": "2016",
      "endDate": "2019",
      "location": "Hamburg",
      "summary": "Data analysis and development of acquisition and processing software for laboratory equipment."
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    {
      "institution": "HafenCity Universität Hamburg",
      "studyType": "PhD candidate",
      "area": "Predictive Maintenance",
      "startDate": "2019"
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    {
      "institution": "HafenCity Universität Hamburg",
      "studyType": "M.Sc.",
      "area": "Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning",
      "startDate": "2016",
      "endDate": "2019"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Politecnico di Milano — Piacenza",
      "studyType": "M.Sc.",
      "area": "Architecture",
      "startDate": "2014",
      "endDate": "2016"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Azad University — Shiraz",
      "studyType": "B.Sc.",
      "area": "Architectural Engineering",
      "startDate": "2007",
      "endDate": "2012"
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "IEA DHC Annex TS6",
      "position": "Contributor",
      "summary": "Status Assessment, Ageing, Lifetime Prediction and Asset Management of District Heating Pipes — international expert group spanning Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, South Korea and Sweden.",
      "startDate": "current"
    },
    {
      "organization": "IEA DHC Annex TS4",
      "position": "Contributor",
      "summary": "Digitalisation of District Heating and Cooling. Co-author of the final guidebook, a ~40-contributor international collaboration.",
      "endDate": "2023"
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "Holcim Study Award for Sustainability",
      "date": "2019",
      "awarder": "Holcim Foundation",
      "summary": "Awarded for work on automated characterisation of heterogeneous construction materials."
    }
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        "Predictive Maintenance",
        "Infrastructure Asset Management",
        "Ageing & Lifetime Prediction",
        "Novel Measurement Method Development",
        "Custom Algorithm Development",
        "Non-Destructive Testing",
        "International Research Collaboration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Modelling & data",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "Pandas",
        "NumPy",
        "TensorFlow / Keras",
        "R",
        "Jupyter",
        "Machine & Deep Learning",
        "Time-Series Analysis",
        "Statistical Modelling"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Signal, spectra & images",
      "keywords": [
        "X-Ray Microscopy & Image Analysis",
        "Spectroscopy — LIBS, FT-IR / FT-NIR",
        "Chemometrics & Spectral Processing",
        "Image Segmentation",
        "Feature Extraction",
        "Classification & Regression"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Instrumentation & engineering software",
      "keywords": [
        "LabVIEW",
        "C#",
        "VB.net",
        "Excel VBA",
        "Data Acquisition Software",
        "Thermal & Heat-Flow Simulation",
        "Mechanical & Materials Lab Testing",
        "Q-GIS"
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      "keywords": [
        "Git",
        "Linux",
        "Docker",
        "VS Code",
        "Visual Studio",
        "Self-Hosted Infrastructure"
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    }
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  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "Persian",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "German",
      "fluency": "B2 / C1"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Fluent"
    }
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  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Electronics & microcontrollers"
    },
    {
      "name": "Car repair & DIY fabrication"
    },
    {
      "name": "Photography"
    },
    {
      "name": "Piano & guitar"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chess"
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    {
      "name": "Astronomy"
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  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "Assessment of Long-Term Aged Polyurethane Foam in District Heating Pipes and the Applicability of FTIR Spectroscopy",
      "publisher": "HafenCity University Hamburg",
      "releaseDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.34712/142.81-3",
      "summary": "Pourbozorgi Langroudi, P."
    },
    {
      "name": "A Review and Classification of Ageing Models for District Heating Pipelines",
      "publisher": "International Sustainable Energy Conference — Proceedings, 2",
      "releaseDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.52825/isec.v2i.3403",
      "summary": "Langroudi, P., Weidlich, I., & Hay, S."
    },
    {
      "name": "Foam Density Distribution Analysis in Pre-insulated Pipes Using Non-destructive X-Ray Microscopy",
      "publisher": "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 163–171",
      "releaseDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-09844-3_16",
      "summary": "Langroudi, P., & Weidlich, I."
    },
    {
      "name": "Developing an Algorithmic Framework for Sustainable Asset Management of District Heating Networks: A Scenario-Based Approach",
      "publisher": "Environmental and Climate Technologies, 29(1), 840–850",
      "releaseDate": "2025",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2025-0056",
      "summary": "Langroudi, P., & Weidlich, I."
    },
    {
      "name": "Conceptual Framework for Algorithm Development in Sustainable Asset Management of District Heating Networks",
      "publisher": "CONECT International Scientific Conference of Environmental and Climate Technologies, 28–29",
      "releaseDate": "2025",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.7250/conect.2025.009",
      "summary": "Langroudi, P., & Weidlich, I."
    },
    {
      "name": "An Analysis of the most Frequent Operational Temperature of four District Heating Networks of Germany",
      "publisher": "HafenCity Universität Hamburg",
      "releaseDate": "2022",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.34712/34712/142.25",
      "summary": "Pourbozorgi Langroudi, P."
    },
    {
      "name": "Automated Distinction between Cement Paste and Aggregates of Concrete Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy",
      "publisher": "Materials, 14(16), 4624",
      "releaseDate": "2021",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14164624",
      "summary": "Pourbozorgi Langroudi, P., Kapteina, G., & Illguth, M."
    },
    {
      "name": "Backward simulation of temperature changes of District Heating networks for enabling loading history in predictive maintenance",
      "publisher": "Energy Reports, 7, 119–127",
      "releaseDate": "2021",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.09.031",
      "summary": "Pourbozorgi Langroudi, P., Weidlich, I., & Hay, S."
    },
    {
      "name": "Applicable Predictive Maintenance Diagnosis Methods in Service-Life Prediction of District Heating Pipes",
      "publisher": "Environmental and Climate Technologies, 24(3), 294–304",
      "releaseDate": "2020",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0104",
      "summary": "Pourbozorgi Langroudi, P., & Weidlich, I."
    },
    {
      "name": "The current state and future outlook of digitalization for the operation of district heating systems: A review",
      "publisher": "Energy, 344, 140086",
      "releaseDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2026.140086",
      "summary": "Schmidt, D., Yang, Q., Vanhoudt, D., Widl, E., Langroudi, P., et al."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Importance of Asset Management of District Heating Pipes for the Implementation of Climate Goals in Europe",
      "publisher": "International Sustainable Energy Conference — Proceedings, 2",
      "releaseDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.52825/isec.v2i.3410",
      "summary": "Hay, S., Schenkel, R., Engel, C., Cadenbach, A. M., Leuteritz, A., Langroudi, P., & Kropp, I."
    },
    {
      "name": "Digitalization of District Heating Systems — Transforming Heat Networks for a Sustainable Future",
      "publisher": "SSRN preprint",
      "releaseDate": "2025",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5167660",
      "summary": "Schmidt, D., Tunzi, M., Vallée, M., Vanhoudt, D., Langroudi, P., Widl, E., & Gölles, M."
    },
    {
      "name": "Heat Loss Determination of District Heating Pipelines. A Comparison of Numerical and Analytical Methods",
      "publisher": "Environmental and Climate Technologies, 28(1)",
      "releaseDate": "2024",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2024-0070",
      "summary": "Wieland, A., Dollhopf, S., Weidlich, I., & Pourbozorgi Langroudi, P."
    },
    {
      "name": "Comparing Numerical and Analytical Methods for Heat Loss Determination of District Heating Systems",
      "publisher": "CONECT International Scientific Conference of Environmental and Climate Technologies",
      "releaseDate": "2024",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.7250/conect.2024.005",
      "summary": "Wieland, A., Weidlich, I., Dollhopf, S., & Pourbozorgi Langroudi, P."
    },
    {
      "name": "Guidebook for the Digitalisation of District Heating: Transforming Heat Networks for a Sustainable Future",
      "publisher": "Final report of IEA DHC Annex TS4",
      "releaseDate": "2023",
      "summary": "Multi-author report, with Pourbozorgi Langroudi, P. among the contributors"
    }
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