Dr Nazanin Saeidi is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Alternative Construction Material project at Future Cities Laboratory, where she is focusing on the development of cultivation-based construction material.

Dr Nazanin Saeidi received her PhD in chemical engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2013, on the topic of 'Engineering microbes to sense and eradicate a human pathogen'. In 2013, she was appointed as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Singapore Membrane Technology Center, where she was working on the development of improved strategies to control Biofouling of membranes in water industry.

In 2014, she joined the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at National University of Singapore to pursue a new research experience where she was focusing on 'Emerging microbial contaminants of concern in tropical urban catchments' and 'The effect of diverse land use on the geospatial distribution of Emerging microbial contaminants of concern in tropical environments'.