Ahmadreza Ghazanfari

- Leading the vision and strategic direction of Spanly, advancing AI-powered solutions to assess building vulnerability and climate resilience. - Overseeing the development of our flagship products, the Flood & Rainfall Lens, which leverages façade and satellite imagery to generate building-level risk insights - Driving innovation in multi-hazard risk assessment by integrating AI, engineering science, and dynamic indicator frameworks to transform complex climate data into actionable decisions. - Building partnerships with public and private stakeholders to ensure our solutions align with market needs, policy frameworks, and global sustainability goals. - Guiding a growing team and fostering a culture of collaboration, adaptability, and purpose-driven innovation to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time: climate resilience.

Topic: Structural design and modeling of a novel strand-based wood product for construction - Conducted mechanical experiments to determine the mechanical properties of Strand-based product on single and multi-layer configuration - Modeled the material behavior using Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis in Abaqus to simulate performance under various loading conditions - Designed and dimensioned the product, ensuring safety, compliance with standards, for real-world multi-storey applications

- Gained hands-on experience in idea validation, problem deep dives, prototyping, and building experimental foundations to transform concepts into market-ready solutions - Trained in goal setting, sales, marketing, growth strategies, fundraising, and venture capital to drive sustainable scaling - Enhanced skills in pitching and storytelling, legal and tax frameworks, negotiation, team management, productivity, and networking for effective venture building

Master's thesis title: Assessing vulnerability indicators for hydrometeorological hazards with a focus on five distinct building prototypes in Austria - Conducted a comprehensive vulnerability assessment of five representative Austrian house types against meteorological hazards (hail, rainfall, windstorm) - Developed a case study in Pinsdorf to analyze hazard exposure and structural resilience under real-world conditions - Collaborated with the Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV) in partnership with BOKU University - Integrated findings into a web-based platform for household vulnerability assessment in Vienna, enabling practical application of the research

• Analyzed an 18-floor project plan by SAP 2000 and ETABS software, implemented on the site and monitored the project progress • Cooperated, negotiated with the company and clients and reduced the amount of waste material • Managed and guided trainee civil engineers on the construction site to increase the speed of the daily work up to 20%.

• Designed and engineered an 11-floor building with the collaboration of other companies • modified and redesigned the project’s schedule to minimize the budget consumption • Addressed some unforeseen events on-site and regularly reported to the company

- Gained expertise in the environmental impacts of materials, circular use of resources, and innovative approaches such as “Building like nature” and engineered wood products - Trained in socio-economic and ecological challenges of the built environment, resilience-focused construction cycles, and scientific methods, including research design, statistical tools, and grant development - Applied knowledge through doctoral seminars, excursions, and interdisciplinary collaboration within BUILD.NATURE, bridging advanced material science with real-world construction

• Gaining experience on the principles of risk and how to mitigate it thanks to prepared scenarios • Having several collaborative projects on different natural disasters such as earthquake, landslide, flood, and hydrometeorological hazards • Understanding transport engineering and emergency management of the situation in case of disasters

• Benefiting from some courses such as concrete and steel structures, earthquake and soil engineering to make use of them on the real projects • Studying road, pavement, and tunnel engineering • Acquainting with hydrology and hydraulic engineering