Amineh Ghorbani
AffiliationsDelft University of Technology
Professional homepage ORCID more infohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9985-8239
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Amineh Ghorbani is an assistant professor at the Engineering Systems and Services Department, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She is also an affiliated member of the “Institutions for Collective Action” at Utrecht University. She obtained her M.Sc. in Computer Science (Artificial intelligence) from University of Tehran (Iran) (2009, honours) and her PhD from Delft University of Technology (2013, cum laude).
During her PhD, Amineh developed a meta-model for agent-based modelling, called MAIA, which describes various concepts and relations in a socio-technical system. This modelling perspective helped her develop a modelling paradigm that she refers to as institutional modelling.
Her current area of research is understanding the emergence and dynamics of institutions (set of rule organizing human society) using modelling. She is interested in how bottom-up collective action emerges and how institutions emergence and change within communities.
Research Interests
collective action
institutional emergence
evolution of institutions
community energy systems
Peer reviewed collective action in urban community gardens
Arthur Feinberg Elena Hooijschuur Nicole Rogge Amineh Ghorbani Paulien Herder | Published Saturday, May 15, 2021this agent-based model explores the dynamics of volunteer participation in urban community gardens, by combining behavioral theory and institutional theory
Under development.