• Development of Improved Techniques to the Optimisation of Real-World Water and Wastewater related Problems (e.g., sewer networks and WDNs)

• Artificial Intelligent and Sustainable Urban Water Management

• Optimal Long-Term Water Resources and Infrastructure Planning 

• Development of Improved Decision Support Approaches for Urban Water Management

Journal Paper:

• Dev, A.; Dilly, T.C.; Bakhshipour, A. E.; Dittmer, U.; Bhallamudi, S.M. Optimal Implementation of Wastewater Reuse in Existing Sewerage Systems to Improve Resilience and Sustainability in Water Supply Systems. Water 2021, 13, 2004. doi.org/10.3390/w13152004

• Zahediasl, A.; Bakhshipour, A. E.; Dittmer, U.; Haghighi, A. Toward Decentralised Sanitary Sewage Collection Systems: A Multiobjective Approach for Cost-Effective and Resilient Designs. Water 2021, 13, 1886. doi.org/10.3390/w13141886

• Bakhshipour, A.E.; Dittmer, U.; Haghighi, A.; Nowak, W. Towards sustainable urban drainage infrastructure planning: A combined multiobjective optimization and multicriteria decision-making platform. J. Water Resour. Plan. Manag. Forthcom. 2021, in press.

• Bachmann-Machnik, A.; Brüning, Y.; Ebrahim Bakhshipour, A.; Krauss, M.; Dittmer, U. Evaluation of Combined Sewer System Operation Strategies Based on Highly Resolved Online Data. Water 2021, 13, 751. doi.org/10.3390/w13060751

• Bakhshipour, A.E.; Hespen, J.; Haghighi, A.; Dittmer, U.; Nowak, W. Integrating Structural Resilience in the Design of Urban Drainage Networks in Flat Areas Using a Simplified Multi-Objective Optimization Framework. Water 2021, 13, 269. doi.org/10.3390/w13030269

•   Bakhshipour, A. E., Dittmer, U., Haghighi, A., & Nowak, W. (2019). Hybrid green-blue-gray decentralized urban drainage systems design, a simulation-optimization framework. Journal of environmental management, 249, 109364.

•   Ayati, A. H., Ranginkaman, M. H., Bakhshipour, A. E., & Haghighi, A. (2019). Transient Measurement Site Design in Pipe Networks Using the Decision Table Method (DTM). Journal of Hydraulic Structures, 5(2), 32-48.

•   Bakhshipour, Amin E.; Bakhshizadeh, Milad; Dittmer, Ulrich; Haghighi, Ali; Nowak, Wolfgang (2018): Hanging Gardens Algorithm to Generate Decentralized Layouts for the Optimization of Urban Drainage Systems. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (ASCE); DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001103

•   Ali Haghighi & Amin E. Bakhshipour (2015): Reliability-based layout design of sewage collection systems in flat areas, Urban Water Journal.

•   Ali Haghighi & Amin E. Bakhshipour (2014): Deterministic Integrated Optimization Model for Sewage Collection Networks Using Tabu Search, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

•   Ali Haghighi & Amin E. Bakhshipour (2012): Optimization of Sewer Networks Using an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm, Water Resources Management.

Conference Paper:

• Anneli Guthke; Amin E. Bakhshipour; Felipe P.J. de Barros; Holger Class; James E. Daniell; Ulrich Dittmer et al. (2021): Building bridges between disciplines: A generalized mathematical framework for climate change impact assessment. Copernicus Meetings (Copernicus Meetings, EGU21-13386). Available online at https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-13386.html.

•   Brüning, Y., Bachmann-Machnik, A., Bakhshipour, A. E., & Dittmer, U. (2019). Messdatenbasierte Optimierung von Drosselabflüssen im Mischsystem. REGENWASSER WEITERDENKEN ͳ, 20.

•   Bakhshipour, A. E., Bakhshizadeh, M., Dittmer, U., Nowak, W., & Haghighi, A. (2018, September). A Graph-Theory Based Algorithm to Generate Decentralized Urban Drainage Layouts. In International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling (pp. 633-637). Springer, Cham.

•   Ayazpour, Z., Bakhshipour, A. E., & Dittmer, U. (2018, September). Combined Sewer Flow Prediction Using Hybrid Wavelet Artificial Neural Network Model. In International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling (pp. 693-698). Springer, Cham.

•   Bakhshipour, A. E., Makaremi, Y., Dittmer, U., Nowak, W., & Haghighi, A (2017). ICUD-0300 Trade-offs between cost and reliability in the design of sewer networks in flat areas.