Professional focus

Planning Support Systems, Geo-scripting in ArcMap software using Python, Sustainable Urban Land Use Planning, Assessing the sustainability attainment in the land use plans

Period of residence

April 2014 - October 2017

Scientific and professional career

Since 1/4/2014 PhD Student at the department for "International Planning Systems" at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

9/2010 M.Sc. in Architectural Engineering for a thesis under the title " The Urban Indicators as a Tool for Raising the Efficiency of the Land Management in the Secondary cities in Egypt- Assiut city as a case study " at Assiut University, Egypt

9/2001 - 9/2013 Planning Engineer in General Organization for Physical Planning- GOPP- Assiut Regional office

9/1995 -5/ 2000 B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering - Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt

Awards, Prizes and Scholarships

2015 Travel Grant from the “Forschungsprogramme” section of the DAAD, to attend the 14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management- CUPUM, Cambridge, MA, USA, July, 2015

2013 Full PhD Scholarship GERLS-German Egyptian Research Long-term Scholarship  (DAAD), group (2013/14)

2010 Chosen in a group of 5 participants out of 20 participants to attend a second phase for the training program "Digital Photogrammetory and Remote sensing" in Netherlands, supported by the NUFFIC

2008 Chosen the research project “Urban indicators for Assessing the Impact of land Price on Land Management in Asyut City-Egypt”,  with another Nigerian project out of 13 projects, to be presented in the achievements of the training program “Urban Land Administration” in the Swedsurvey's newsletter

Publications

Ghattas, Niveen. 2015. The Feasibility of adopting Planning Support Systems in the Land-use Planning in the Egyptian Cities. In: 14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management- CUPUM, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 7-10th, 2015.

Ghattas, Niveen. 2009. The Role of the Urban Land Management in Solving the Urban Problems - Asyut City as a Case Study. In: Engineering Magazine, Engineering Faculty, Asyut University, March, 2009 (in Arabic).

Ghattas, Niveen. 2007. The Importance of the Effective Urban Management to make the Physical Plans of cities succeed. In: First Engineering Conference for Young Researchers "Engineering between Theory and Practice", Asyut University, Engineering Faculty, 7-8 May 2007 (in Arabic).

Presentations on conferences

The 14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management- CUPUM, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 7-10th, 2015.

Since 2014 presentation on"The Planning System in Egypt" as part of the lecture "Planning in Developing Countries" for bachelor and master students.

The 8th International Architectural Conference, "Architecture & Built Environment- Contemporary Issues". Dept of Arch. Eng., Asyut University, Engineering Faculty, Egypt. April, 2010.

The 7th International Architectural Conference, "Housing for the Poor- Problems & Solutions". Dept of Arch. Eng., Asyut University, Engineering Faculty, Egypt. Oct., 2007.

Workshops and Training Programmes

"The obstacles towards the Strategic Planning Success in Egypt”. The Regional Office of Asyut, the General Organization for Physical Planning- GOPP, Asyut, Egypt. Dec. 2011.

"BRIDGING BORDERS: Integrated Strategic Planning for Cities and Regions"- A NUFFIC Refresher course. Housing & Building National Research Center (HBRC)- Urban Training Institute (UTI)- Egypt, with the cooperation of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) – Netherlands. Nov. 14,2011 – Nov. 24, 2011.

"Integrated Strategies and Policies for Informal Settlements Development". Housing & Building National Research Center (HBRC)- Urban Training Institute (UTI)- Egypt, with the cooperation of the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation  (ITC) & the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) - Netherlands, and the German Cooperation Agency (GTZ)-Germany. May 30,2010 – June 3, 2010.

"Digital Photo-grammetry and Remote Sensing", two phases:- The First phase in the UTI-HBRC, Giza, Egypt, (Oct., 11, 2009 – Oct., 22, 2009).  The second phase in Netherlands, (Jan.24, 2010- Jan.27, 2010). Housing & Building National Research Center (HBRC)- Urban Training Institute (UTI)- Egypt, with cooperation of the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)- Netherlands.

"Arc map 9.3 ". The Regional Office of Asyut, the General Organization for Physical Planning- GOPP, Asyut, Egypt. Oct., 2009.

"Urban Land Administration". two phases with an intermediate 6 months period for a change project:- The First phase in Gavle City, Sweden, (April 1, 2008- April 25, 2008).- The second phase in Nairobi City, Kenya, (Nov. 10, 2008- Nov. 20, 2008).Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), with the cooperation of Swedesurvey- Gavle, Sweden.

"Using the Urban Indicators in Monitoring the Housing Sector in Egypt". The General Organization for Physical Planning- GOPP, with the cooperation of the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Cooperation Agency- CMHC, Ottawa, Canada. June, 2006.

"Using the Urban indicators in Monitoring the Housing Sector in Egypt- Preliminary Workshop". The General Organization for Physical Planning- GOPP, with the cooperation of the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Cooperation Agency- CMHC, Cairo, Egypt. - Dec., 2005.

"The Urban Indicators". The Regional Office of Asyut, the General Organization for Physical Planning- GOPP, Asyut, Egypt. Dec. 2004