Dr Zohreh Pourzolfaghar

    School of Business

    Lecturer/Assistant Professor

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    Biography

    Dr. Zohreh Pourzolfaghar is Assistant Professor in Management Information System, at School of Business, National University of Ireland (NUIM). She is member of Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Zohreh formerly has been Research Fellow at Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at NUIM. She is a senior research member of the Business Informatics Group and the theme lead in a project investigating the application of Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities, funded by Science Foundation Ireland. She has been Principle Investigator for an Industry Fellowship Programme, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), and PI for two projects in collaboration with industry, funded by Enterprise Ireland. Zohreh presented her work at international conferences and has published research in Journals and Conference Proceedings. She is also leading research within the Cost Action CA16222 (WISE-ACT), a European-wide network that explores the wider impacts of Autonomous and Connected Transport.  She has been thematic lead in a successful European Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) proposal, i.e., PERFORM. She is a member of the supervisory board of the EU project PERFORM, that focuses on Digital Retail. She has been awarded the SFI industry fellowship (2018) working with industry on topics related to Smart Cities and Building Information Management. Zohreh is the Co-PI for two European MSCA ENTRUST Doctoral Network (funded on Aug. 2022), and MCSA Co Fund DIGI+ (funded on Jun 2022), and more submitted/ongoing proposals.

    Research Interests

    She is a senior research member of the Business Informatics Group. She is the theme lead in a project investigating the application of Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). She has been Principle Investigator for an Industry Fellowship Programme, funded by SFI. Zohreh presented her work at international conferences and has published research in Journals and Conference Proceedings. Zohreh is also leading research within the Cost Action CA16222 (WISE-ACT), a European-wide network.  She has been thematic lead in a successful European Marie Curie PERFORM project. She is a member of the supervisory board of the EU project PERFORM, that focuses on Digital Retail. She has been awarded the SFI industry fellowship (2018) working with industry on topics related to Smart Cities and Building Information Management. She is the Co-PI for submitted H202 Techland proposal. Zohreh received her Ph.D. in Project Management in design process of building projects. Zohreh has years of experience working with project-oriented construction companies to improve organisatioanal productivity and their work processes.

    Research Projects

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    Innovation Voucher Corballis PI As part of the development of Safety Management System (SMS) software tools, it is necessary to include a Security, Quality and Asset Risk management . Several standards exist, e.g. ISO 9001 ISO 27001,ISO 55000, etc., and are in use across the potential end users of the software. To maximise the applicability of the SMS software tool, these standards should be incorporated in our solution to attract use by potential customers. 09/08/2021 08/08/2022 13000
    BIM stds Innovation Voucher PI The exchange (communication/sharing) of information in the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) sector, in relation to built-environment assets (buildings, infrastructure, utilities etc), is most often performed through files or documents (information containers), of various types and format. The ISO19650 set of standards, published in 2019, requires files/documents (information containers) to be stored/managed within a “Common Data Environment” (CDE), andfor these information containers to have associated “metadata” properties which describe the content, status, revision (and optionally classification) of these files, to facilitate quick/easy search, query & processing of information. However, the ISO19650 standard itself is not specific on what properties are required - this is left to individual companies operating on projects. This project will work to define specific properties/attributes, to facilitate better business processing of information. 19/07/2021 17/09/2022 13000
    PERFORM Research Coordination Committee member PERFORM will tackle Digital Retail challenges through a combination of training and research. The research projects of PERFORM will develop new methods, concepts and technology implementations for retailers. The projects will be conducted by PhD candidates at different organizations. The following table provides an overview of these projects. 01/09/2018

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2022 Leonidas Anthopolous, Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Kristina Lemmer (2022) 'Smart Cities as hubs: connect, collect and control city flows  '. Cities, .
    2023 zohreh.pourzolfaghar@mu.ie; marco.alfano@mu.ie; markus.helfert@mu.ie (2023) 'Application of ethical AI requirements to an AI solution use-case in healthcare domain'. Mid-American Journal of Business, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1108/AJB-12-2022-0201
    2021 Cakir G.; Iftikhar R.; Bielozorov A.; Pourzolfaghar Z.; Helfert M. (2021) 'Omnichannel retailing: Digital transformation of a medium-sized retailer'. Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, . [DOI] [Full-Text]

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2020 Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Gültekin Cakir, Douglas Da Rocha Cirqueira (2020) CHIRA2020 WEDESHI-DR online, 05/11/2020-05/11/2020.
    2011 Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, R Ibrahim, R Abdullah, NM Adam (2011) ECRM-The 10th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (Vol POURZOLFAGHAR, Z. (2011). Potential technique for capturing building design tacit knowledge to decrease cost and time overruns. In: ECRM-The 10th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (Vol. 605) Conference Proceeding, .

    Thesis

    Year Publication
    2011 Zohreh Pourzolfaghar (2011) Improving knowledge capture during conceptual design phase of building projects. [Thesis]
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    Honors and Awards

    Date Title Awarding Body
    01/06/2018 Industry fellowship Science Foundation Ireland
    01/07/2021 Innovation Voucher Enterprise Ireland

    Teaching Interests

    • Management Information System
    • Business Modeling
    • Digital Business
    • Digital Transformation
    • Project Management
    • Qualitative Research Method
    • Enterprise Architecture