Maryam Karimi‘s dissertation entitled “Impact of Urbanization on Temperature Variation in Big Cities: Measuring Health Risk While Targeting Vulnerable Population” is available on CUNY academic works!  Congratulations Dr. Karimi!   Dr. Karimi is continuing her work at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.  Her research focuses on understanding the structure of cities and temperature variations caused by surface changes in urban areas. She is working on developing models to predict environmental risk and social vulnerability. In addition, she is focused on the identification of environmental risk and social vulnerability associated with UHI and air …