Welcome to Our Lab!
Our world today is posed with the challenge of devising impregnable solutions to tackle climate change and its effects on indispensable coupled human-natural systems. In recent times we are witnessing the unrelenting consequences of extreme climate-related events such as floods and droughts, and hearing about communities being displaced because of floods, or cities struggling to supply drinking water, has become so rudimentary that we hear and read it in everyday news and social-media feeds. The migration of a huge aggregate of individuals to certain cities in search of a better life or escape environmental or climate hazards is also being increasingly noted, which has further imposed a de trop pressure on existing infrastructure systems. In addition to this, we are still fighting social disparity, and our current systems are still struggling to provide marginalized people (notably BIPOC) with access to some basic services including the supply of drinking water, and ensuring flood safety and food security. To overcome the challenge of both social disparity and extreme climate-related conditions that we are about to face in the near future, not failing to overlook the disproportionate effect of climate extremes on vulnerable populations, it is compellingly essential to improve the resilience of our current infrastructure systems, at the same time, also devise and develop innovative infrastructures that are sturdy and effectual.
At Osman lab, we will be considering water infrastructures as complex systems, and try to understand their mutual interactions with both natural and man-made components, along with their convoluted feedbacks within the social realm. In the coming years, we will be focusing our research on studying water systems wielding a transdisciplinary outlook by utilizing knowledge and innovative scientific tools from engineering, mathematics, climate, and social sciences. A foundational intent of our research would be to incorporate mechanisms at the systems-scale to make water infrastructures absolutely equitable - at both design and operational levels. We will also be working on some remarkable off-center research projects related to water, environment, and human-natural systems, that we believe would make a difference and operationalize equity, environmental, and climate justice universally.
We are super-excited to contribute – to the best of our abilities – towards making our world a better place to live!