Staff Profile
Dr Nasser Tuqan
Research Associate
- Email: nasser.tuqan@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Room 3.24, Cassie Building
School of Engineering
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
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)
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.