Staff Profile

Research associate at the Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub. Multidisciplinary professional and voluntary experiences in water research, field engineering, project management, and capacity development.

Experiences:

Water Management Consultant at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) - Non-Staff Human Resources Roaster (Sep-2020 to Present)

Regional Service Delivery Manager at Fujitsu Ltd. (Apr-2017 to Mar-2021)

Civil Engineering Consultant at Shtayya for Architecture & Sustainability (Nov-2016 to Apr-2017)

Technical Officer at Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) (Sep-2016 to Dec-2017)

Events Coordinator at Zajel Youth Exchange Programme - An-Najah National University (Feb-2008 to Jan-2012)

Qualifications:

PhD in Water Resources Management at University of Minho, Portugal (2015-2020)

MSc in Urban Engineering - Environmental Hydraulics at University of Minho, Portugal (2013-2015)

BSc in Civil Engineering at An-Najah National University, State of Palestine (2007-2012)

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Current research activities are focused on investigating the costs associated with water security solutions. Attempting to find answers to the following key questions:

- How to achieve an efficient cost estimation technique of water security solutions?

- Will effective cost estimation techniques optimise water security solutions?

- Will effective cost estimation techniques optimise the decision making process?

- What are the costs associated with the different water security solutions?

- What is the cost of achieving SDG6 and its targets (6.1 to 6.6, 6.A and 6.B)?

Research interests:

- Water use efficiency

- Climate change impact on water resources

- Economics of Water Management

- Irrigation management

- Sefficiency

• Tuqan N. Agricultural Water Use Impact on the Eastern Aquifer Basin Sustainability Under Climate Change Uncertainty. In: IWRA Online Conference 2020 - Addressing Groundwater Resilience under Climate Change. 2020, Online: IWRA.
• Tuqan N, Haie N, Ahmad MT. Assessment of the agricultural water use in Jericho governorate using sefficiency. Sustainability 2020, 12(9), 3634.
• Ahmad MT, Haie N, Yen H, Tuqan NAS. Sefficiency of a water use system: The case of Kano River irrigation project, Nigeria. International Journal of Civil Engineering 2018, 16, 929-939.
• Tuqan NAS, Lourenço J. GIS application in water resources master planning. In: PLURIS 2014 - 6º Congresso Luso-Brasileiro para Planeamento Urbano, Regional, Integrado e Sustentável. 2014, Lisbon, Portugal.