Dr. Naveed Anjum is a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Research) / Postdoctoral Researcher in the Watershed Ecology Laboratory, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics Engineering) from Saitama University, Japan, as a recipient of the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship. His research focuses on river hydraulics, ecohydraulics, numerical modeling, flow-vegetation interactions, flood and tsunami disaster mitigation, and nature-based solutions for resilient water environments.
特任助教 ANJUM Naveed
| 経歴 |
2026年6月~
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Research) / Postdoctoral Researcher, Watershed Ecology Laboratory, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan. 2021年12月 – 2026年5月 Assistant Professor (Head), Department of Civil Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT), Pakistan. 2018年3月 – 2018年8月 Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Quaid-e-Azam College of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan. 2016年8月 – 2018年2月 Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan. |
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| 著書・論文 |
Naveed Anjum, Usman Ghani, Ghufran Ahmed Pasha, Abid Latif, Tahir Sultan, and Shahid Ali, (2018) “To investigate the flow structure of discontinuous vegetation patches of two vertically different layers in an open channel”, Water.
Usman Ghani, Naveed Anjum, Ghufran Ahmed Pasha, and Muhammad Ahmad, (2019) “Investigating the turbulent flow characteristics in an open channel with staggered vegetation patches”, River Research and Applications. Naveed Anjum, and Norio Tanaka, (2020) “Study on the flow structure around discontinued vertically layered vegetation in an open channel”, Journal of Hydrodynamics. Naveed Anjum, Norio Tanaka, and Md Abedur Rahman, (2021) “Role of tree crown height for effective mitigation capability of inland coastal forest considering the flow structures and scour phenomena”, Ocean Engineering. Naveed Anjum, and Norio Tanaka, (2022) “Investigating the effectiveness of discontinuous and layered coastal forest defense system against the inundating tsunami current”, Landscape and Ecological Engineering. Naveed Anjum, and Norio Tanaka, (2023) “Study on the turbulent flow behavior of inland inundating tsunami current through vertically layered vegetation”, International Journal of Civil Engineering. Naveed Anjum, Sohail Iqbal, and Norio Tanaka, (2024) “Impact of floating vegetation island on velocity distribution in open channel flow”, Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. Naveed Anjum, Ghufran Ahmed Pasha, Jawad Ashraf, Usman Ghani, Fakhar Muhammad Abbas, and Md Abedur Rahman, (2024) “How Emergent Vegetation Patch Shapes Affect Flow Structure in Open Channel Environments”, Ecohydrology. Naveed Anjum, Sohail Iqbal, Ghufran Ahmed Pasha, Norio Tanaka, and Usman Ghani, (2025) “Optimizing Coastal Forest Arrangements for Tsunami Flow Dynamics Using a Three-Dimensional Approach”, Physics of Fluids. Syed Muhammad Ahmad Bukhari, Naveed Anjum, Saad Abbas, Adnan Shahid, Abdul Basit Bukhari, and Ghufran Ahmed Pasha (2026) “A Comparative Analysis of Tsunami Flow Through Emergent and Submerged Coastal Vegetation Using Numerical Simulation”, Natural Hazards. |
| 所属学会 |
• Associate Member, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE).
• Editorial Board Member, THE PROGRESS: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. • Reviewer for international journals including Journal of Hydraulic Research, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Ecohydraulics, Hydrologic Engineering, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Natural Hazards, Geomorphology, Ocean Engineering, Physics of Fluids, and others. |
| 担当講義 |
Dr. Anjum has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in hydraulics, hydrology, fluid mechanics, water resources engineering, river engineering, coastal engineering, and numerical modeling. He has supervised numerous graduate and undergraduate research and final-year projects covering river morphology, ecohydraulics, coastal protection, CFD modeling, and sustainable water engineering. |
最近の研究について
• Conducting research on watershed ecology, ecohydraulics, and river management at Tohoku University.
• Conducting interdisciplinary research that integrates geomorphology, hydrology, hydraulics, and ecology in natural forested mountain river systems using field observations, advanced sensing technologies, and modeling approaches.
• Ranked among the top scholars worldwide in his area of expertise by ScholarGPS (#17 globally in 2025).
• Conducting interdisciplinary research that integrates geomorphology, hydrology, hydraulics, and ecology in natural forested mountain river systems using field observations, advanced sensing technologies, and modeling approaches.
• Ranked among the top scholars worldwide in his area of expertise by ScholarGPS (#17 globally in 2025).

