Leadership Team
Michele Mossa
Chair
Michele Mossa, Full Professor of Hydraulics at Polytechnic University of Bari, researches maritime, river, and environmental hydraulics, including waves, currents, erosion, and pollutant diffusion, and leads major international research collaborations [...]
Jeffrey Tuhtan
LT Member
Jeffrey Tuhtan, Associate Professor at Tallinn University of Technology, develops rugged multimodal sensing and simulation technologies for natural and built environments, combining hydraulics, instrumentation, and water resources engineering with digital [...]
Binbin Wang
LT Member
Prof. Binbin Wang, Associate Professor at University of Missouri, investigates fluid dynamics, invasive carp larval transport, sediment impacts on mussels, with studies across Missouri River, Great Lakes, and Gulf systems. [...]
Greg Pasternack
Past Chair
Greg Pasternack is a professor in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at University of California at Davis . He has 25 years of experience working on fluvial and [...]
Donatella Termini
LT Member
Donatella Termini, Full Professor of Hydraulics at University of Palermo, researches fluvial morphodynamics, sediment transport, ecohydraulics, and river restoration. Author of 200+ papers, she has received major international research awards [...]
Dongdong Shao
LT Member
Prof. Dongdong Shao is Professor and the Head of the Department of Ecological Engineering at the School of Environment at Beijing Normal University, China. He obtained his PhD from Nanyang [...]
Daniele Tonina
LT Member
Daniele Tonina, Professor at UI’s Center for Ecohydraulics Research, studies surface–subsurface interactions, riverine habitat, and hydraulic remote sensing. Former postdoc at UC Berkeley and Trento, he is Associate Editor for [...]
Mengzhen Xu
LT Member
Mengzhen Xu, Associate Professor and River Research Institute Director at Tsinghua University, studies hydraulics–structure–biota interfaces, mussel biofouling control in water transfer systems, with contributions in ecohydraulics, sediment transport, and geomorphology. [...]
Davide Vanzo
LT Member
Davide Vanzo is a researcher at the Institute for Water and Environment (IWU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. His current research focuses on the development of numerical models for [...]
Andrés Vargas Luna
LT member
Dr. Andrés Vargas Luna is Full Professor of the Hydraulic and Environmental group at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia). Professor Vargas main qualifications are in the area of River Morphodynamics, [...]
Rafael Tinoco
LT Member
Rafael Tinoco, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, studies ecohydraulics and hydrodynamics of aquatic ecosystems using advanced experiments and modeling to address stream restoration, coastal protection, and ecosystem services. [...]
Ebissa Gadissa Kedir
Ebissa Gadissa Kedir, PhD Research Scholar in Hydraulic Engineering (Addis Ababa), studies flow modeling, channel hydraulics, hydraulic structures, water resources planning and management. Expertise in physical/analytical modeling of hydraulic systems. [...]
Yali Woyessa
Yali Woyessa, Professor at Central University of Technology, works across water resources management, ecohydraulics, and climate change adaptation, contributing to IAHR committees and initiatives supporting sustainable development goals in Africa. [...]
Chen Zhang
Committee Member
Chen Zhang, Professor at Tianjin University, China, develops water quality models, including zooplankton dynamics and macrophyte–water coupling under hydraulic operations and meteorological drivers in lakes and reservoirs; IAHR committee member. [...]