Water Resources Group @SEED

Water Resources at SEED focuses on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between climate change, land use, and global water systems. Our research explores the availability, quality, trends, and dynamics of water resources, and how they interact with the atmosphere, ecosystems, oceans, forests, and society across different scales, from local to global.

We use innovative methods, combining diverse datasets, advanced modeling, AI tools, and participatory methods to study complex coupled natural and social systems. The work aims to promote sustainable water science, engineering, and management for decision-making in urban and rural development.

Key research areas include hydrological responses to climate and land-use changes, risk assessments of water-related disasters, nature-based solutions, forest resilience, and smart city applications. In parallel, the group conducts cutting-edge studies on fluid flow and solute transport in fractured bedrock, critical for nuclear waste management and infrastructure safety. We also contribute to the activities of the WaterCentre@KTH, a collaborative hub that connects researchers, industry, policymakers, and civil society. The group’s interdisciplinary approach aligns with KTH’s mission to lead in sustainable engineering and carbon-neutral societies.

Lab leaders:

Lab members: 

Sara Anamaghi , PhD student

Massoud Behboudian , Post doc Researcher

Prosun Bhattacharya , Professor

Vladimir Cvetkovic, Professor Emeritus

Hongyu Duan , PhD Student

Georgia Destouni , Visiting professor

Ioannis Iakovidis , PhD student

Jung-Ching Kan , PhD student

Elisie Kåresdotter , Post doc researcher

Jordi Sanglas Molist , Industrial PhD student

Solmaz Khazaei Moughani , PhD student 

Bo Olofsson , Professor emeritus

Jessica Page , Postdoc researcher

Marlon Vieira Passos , PhD student

Amir Rezvani , PhD student

Jan-Olof Selroos , Adjunct professor

Anastasiya Shyrokaya , Postdoc researcher

Arya Vijayan , Post doc researcher

Maryam Zamzami , PhD student

Projects

Climate-Neutral Cities: AI-Driven Sustainable Spatial Planning: Advancing Climate-Neutral Cities through Digital Innovation

CrisAct: Hydro-climatic hazard, risk, and crisis management in Sweden

LandEX: Improving Landscape resilience by integrating measures to adapt and mitigate hydrological EXtremes

Puddle Jump: Contributes to “joined up” thinking about hydrological and other ecosystem services (ES) that can be provided by small artificial waterbodies.

ReForMit: Understanding and Securing the Resilience of Forest-Based Climate Change Mitigation

LEGACY: Unravelling the legacy of historical, emerging, and future groundwater pollution to the ocean

CASCADE: Combining Advanced Systems for Climate Adaptation and Disaster Enhancement in Stockholm

DeepAqua, Revolutionizing the quantification of surface water changes with deep learning funded by Digital Futures

DeepFlood: Enhancing large scale flood detection and mapping using PolSAR, metaheuristic, and deep learning algorithms

NATURANCE: Nature for Insurance, Insurance for Nature

AI-powered knowledge integration to Carbon-neutral Cities

Deep Reinforcement Learning and Large-Scale Simulations

BeFo: Modeling of grouting in fracture networks with alternative rheological models

SVC: Hydrogeochemical impacts on hydropower dams

SKB & Amphos 21: Modeling fluid flow and solute transport processes in rock fractures

PFAS Forensics and Solutions Lab: Cross-domain exploration and mitigation of chemical risk under climate and socio-environmental change for a chemically safe future