Personal identification

Full name

Amir Reza Taherian

Citation names

• Taherian, Amir Reza

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

BE1A-8B29-C36D

ORCID iD

0000-0002-7012-3319

Telephones

Mobile phone

• 912161889 (Personal)

Addresses

• Complexo Residencial do Campus Universitario de Santiago, Bloco 4, 3810-193 Aveiro, PORTOGALLO, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

• https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=xUX2h8QAAAAJ&hl=en (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

• Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Persian (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

	Degree	Classification
2017/09/01 - 2020/09/01 Concluded	Earthquake Engineering (Master) International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Iran "Assessing the distribution of building collapse risk in Iran and developing risk-targeted seismic design maps for the country" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012/09/01 - 2016/09/01 Concluded	Civil Engineering (Bachelor) University of Bojnord, Iran

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09/01 - 2022/11/01	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Riscos e Sustentabilidade na Construção, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/07/01	Research Assistant (Research)	International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Iran

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/09/01 - 2022/11/01	Assessment of Seismic Safety Integrated with Machine Learning and Tremors PTDC/ECI-EGC/7244/2020 Research Fellow Universidade de Aveiro Riscos e Sustentabilidade na Construção, Portugal	Universidade de Aveiro Ongoing
2020/09/01 - 2021/06/01	Probabilistic seismic risk assessment of Iranian code-conforming RC buildings No. 99007088. Research Fellow International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Iran	Iran National Science Foundation Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018/08/01 - 2021/02/01	Developing fragility and vulnerability functions for common Iranian buildings - Researcher International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Iran	Concluded
2019/03/01 - 2020/03/01	Developing Iranian Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool - Researcher International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Iran
2018/03/01 - 2019/03/01	Development of a Guideline for Post-Earthquake Rapid Evaluation of Buildings in Iran - Researcher

Publications

Conference abstract	Kalantari, Afshin; Taherian, Amir. Corresponding author: Kalantari, Afshin. "RISK-TARGETED SEISMIC DESIGN MAP FOR IRAN: ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGS". 2019.
Journal article	Vitor Silva; David Wald; Amir Taherian. "Potential Benefits of Seismic Monitoring for Ground-Shaking Estimation and Loss Assessment". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2025): https://doi.org/10.1785/0120240014. 10.1785/0120240014 Amir Taherian; Vitor Silva; Petros Kalakonas; Romeu Vicente. "An Earthquake Ground-Motion Model for Southwest Iberia". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2024): https://doi.org/10.1785/0120230250. 10.1785/0120230250 Vitor Silva; Amir Taherian; Carlos Sousa Oliveira. "Earthquake early warning for Portugal: part 2 – where is it beneficial?". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-023-01715-w. 10.1007/s10518-023-01715-w Silva, Vitor; Taherian, Amir; Carlos Sousa Oliveira. Corresponding author: Silva, Vitor. "Earthquake Early Warning for Portugal: Part 1 - Where is it Worth?". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (2022): Accepted Taherian, Amir Reza; Kalantari, Afshin. "Analysis of the risk-targeting approach to defining ground motion for seismic design: a case study of Iran". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 19 3 (2021): 1289-1309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-020-01023-7. Published • 10.1007/s10518-020-01023-7 Kalantari, Afshin; Roohbakh,Hamed; Taherian, Amir. "Seismic fragility assessment of RC moment resisting frame buildings designed for different editions of Iranian seismic design code (In Persian)". Disaster Prevention and Management Knowledge (2020): http://dpmk.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-382-1&sid=1&slc_lang=en. Published Taherian, Amir; Kalantari, Afshin. "Risk-targeted seismic design maps for Iran". Journal of Seismology (2019): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10950-019-09867-6. Published • 10.1007/s10950-019-09867-6
Report	Karim Zadeh, Zarin; Ghafory-Ashtiany, Mohsen; Behrokh Hosseini Hashemi; Abdolreza S. Moghadam; Kalantari, Afshin; Babak Mansouri; Taherian, Amir Reza; et al. 2021. Developing fragility and vulnerability functions for common Iranian buildings (In persian). Bastami, Mortza; Kalantari, Afshin; Taherian, Amir. Corresponding author: Bastami, Mortza. 2020. Review of the experience of selected countries in the field of natural disaster insurance to formulate the structure of the Iranian national catastrophe pool (in Persian). https://www.irc.ac.ir/fa-IR/Irc/4946/Articles/view/14643/1293.
Thesis / Dissertation	"Assessing the distribution of building collapse risk in Iran and developing risk-targeted seismic design maps for the country". Master, International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, 2020.