Zahra Dabiri 

Zahra Dabiri is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces, at the University of Salzburg. Her research focuses on advanced Earth Observation (EO) time-series analytics using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. With her expertise in SAR data analytics, particularly in SAR polarimetry and interferometric SAR (InSAR), she studies landscape spatio-temporal dynamics and natural hazards, such as surface deformation, slope instabilities, and floods, to address environmental challenges related to climate change and to support disaster risk reduction initiatives. She employs various methods, including digital image processing techniques, geospatial data analysis, data mining, machine learning, and time series EO data analysis, predominantly utilising open-source tools. She is a principal investigator of several projects, such as flood vulnerability and urban flood impact on transport systems, and actionable data space for urban climate adaptation. She is an author and co-author of 84 academic research papers (until 04/2026), including 23 peer-reviewed journal publications and 61 conference proceedings, abstracts and reports. The complete publication list is available in PURE, Google Scholar , and ResearchGate.