Editorial Board Journal of Hydraulic Research

Editorial Board
Journal of Hydraulic Research
George Constantinescu is presently an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at the University of Iowa, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in hydraulics in 1997 at the
Iowa Institute of Hydraulics Research (IIHR). Dr. Constantinescu worked for the next five
years as a postdoctoral scholar and research engineer at Arizona State University and
Stanford University in the area of turbulence modeling and computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) before taking in 2003 an academic position at the University of Iowa. His present
research interests focus on numerical simulations of relevant flow and transport processes to
hydraulics and water-resources engineering including flow around hydraulic structures, fish
passage and flow around hydropower dams, pollutant transport, sediment transport and loose
bed hydraulics, and eco-hydraulics. He is also interested in stratified flows, turbulence
dynamics and modeling, development of numerical algorithms, parallel and large scale computing. He was
appointed Associate JHR Editor in 2007.
Interests: Computational hydraulics dealing with fluvial and maritime hydraulics, Flow around hydraulic
structures, Stratified flows, Eco-hydraulics
Mohamed S. Ghidaoui, born in 1964 in Tunisia, received the BASc, MASc and Ph.D. in
civil engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, from 1989 to 1993. Since 1993,
he is with the Civil Engineering Department, Hong Kong University of Science &
Technology (HKUST), now as a full professor and chairman of the university undergraduate
studies committee and of the university research committee. He also served as the
chairman of the IAHR-Hong Kong Chapter from 2004 to 2007. His interests are in
hydraulics, water resources and environmental fluid mechanics.
Ghidaoui is a Member of IAHR and of ASCE. He is also a Member of the IAHR Fluid
Mechanics section, and a Member of the International Committee on Mesoscopic Methods
in Engineering and Science. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Research from 2003; an
Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydro-environment Research, IAHR-APD Journal from 2007, and an Editorial
Board Member of the Journal of Hydroinformatics, IAHR from 2000. His awards include the 2007 Arthur Ippen
Award, Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, NZ, and the Albert Berry Memorial Award, American Water
Works Association.
Interests: Shear and turbulence in fast transients, Flow stability, Numerical modelling, Leakage detection, Sewer
surcharging, Boltzmann theory in hydraulics, Thermodynamics and hydraulics, shallow flows
Massimo Greco was born in 1949 in Naples, Italy. He obtained his degree in
civil engineering cum laude in 1973. In 1976 Greco was appointed Assistant
Professor of hydraulics. From 1984 he was an Associate Professor of
hydraulics at the Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering,
University Federico II, Naples and full professor from 2000, where he actually is
the Dean of the Environmental Engineering Program. Greco’s current research
interests relate to the simulation of transport processes in natural streams, and
to 2D flood routing and morphologic changes.
Greco is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE and a Council Member of the International Association of Hydraulic Research IAHR from 2005. In 2004 he
chaired the Local Organizing Committee of the RiverFlow2004 Congress. Further, Greco is a member of
Associazione Idrotecnica Italiana and of the Gruppo Nazionale di Idraulica, serving on the Editorial Board of the
journal Excerpta. Both as Department Member and as a private consultant, Greco was involved in engineering
and applied research work for major national authorities.
Interests: Experimental and numerical modeling of turbulent boundary layers, Water hammer and unsteady pipe
flows, Sewer and drinking water distribution systems, Fluvial hydraulics

Jasim Imran is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Research since 2005. He received his PhD in Civil
Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1997. He worked briefly as a postdoctoral
researcher at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, before joining the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina as an
Assistant Professor in 1998. He has there been an Associate Professor since 2004. A
recipient of the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Dr. Imran is active in both
numerical and experimental modeling of environmental and geophysical flow processes. As
an Associate Editor, he handles papers on experimental modeling, computational
hydraulics, and fluvial and marine sediment transport.
Stratified flow
Interests: Fluvial and marine sediment transport, Mass gravity flow, River mechanics,
Jochen Aberle was born 1969 in Schramberg, Germany. He received his education in civil
engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (TH), with a diploma in 1996 and the PhD title
in 2000. In 2001 he was awarded the "Ehrensenator-Huber Preis" by the Department of
Civil Engineering, Geo- and Environmental Sciences of Karlsruhe University (TH). After a
two years postdoctoral stay at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
(NIWA) in Christchurch NZ, he joined the Leichtweiss-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering
and Water Resources (LWI) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in 2003 as
Research Fellow. In 2008 he was promoted to the head of the LWI Hydraulic Laboratory.
Dr. Aberle's general research interests are environmental fluid mechanics, sediment
transport, cohesive sediment dynamics, and measurement techniques. He is particularly interested in the
interaction between flow, sediment and vegetation, the near-bed turbulent flow field over rough surfaces, and the
statistical description of bed roughness. Dr. Aberle authored over 20 over journal papers and is currently
Secretary of the IAHR Hydraulic Instrumentation Section and of the 2010 River Flow Conference to be held in
Braunschweig, Germany. He was appointed Associate JHR Editor in 2008.
Interests: Turbulent flow field over rough surfaces, Interaction flow- vegetation, Statistical description of bed
roughness, Sediment transport, Cohesive sediment dynamics, Measurement techniques
Yarko Niño was born in 1961 in Santiago, Chile. He obtained the degree of Civil
Engineering in 1986 from Universidad de Chile, which he joined soon after as a Faculty
Member. In 1987 he was awarded the best graduate in hydraulic engineering by the Chilean
Society of Hydraulic Engineering. He enrolled in 1990 the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from where he
obtained the Ph.D. degree in 1995 and the Chester P. Siess Award for best Ph.D. thesis,
and in 1998 the Lorenz G. Straub Award from the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of
Minnesota. He returned to Chile in 1995, as Assistant Professor of Universidad de Chile,
currently lecturing on hydraulics and environmental fluid mechanics. He was promoted to
Associate Professor in 1999.
His current research interests are environmental fluid mechanics and sediment transport. Prof. Niño authored
over 25 journal papers. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois in 2003, and at the University of
Dundee UK, in 2006. Presently he is head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Chile, directs
the Fluid Dynamics and Processes Teaching Laboratory, and the Ph.D. Program in Fluid Dynamics. He is an
Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Research from 2004 and Chair of the IAHR Fluid Mechanics Section.
Interests: Environmental flows, Experimental research, Numerical research, Sediment transport, Stratified flows
Bijan Dargahi is an Associate Professor at Land and Water Resources Engineering, the
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He received his degree in Civil
Engineering from the Polytechnic of Central London in 1976. His post-graduate studies
in hydraulic engineering were completed in 1978 at the International Institute of Hydraulic
Engineering, Delft, the Netherlands. He received his PhD in hydraulics in 1988 at the
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He was appointed as an assistant professor in
1989 and became associate professor in 1993. He has been involved in several PhD
theses and in many industrial projects.

Dr. Dargahi’s research interests are hydraulic structures, sediment transport and scour including 3D boundary
layer flows, river engineering, and large scale hydrodynamic water quality modelling in lakes and the sea. He has
experience in both experimental and numerical hydraulics and authored 50 scientific papers.
Research Interests: River engineering, Large scale water bodies, Numerical modelling, Hydraulic design
Willi Hager received his education in civil engineering from ETH Zurich, with a diploma in
1976 and the PhD title in 1981. After 5 years at EPFL Lausanne as a research engineer,
he returned in 1989 to ETH Zurich, first as the head of the VAW scientific staff, and from
1998 as professor of hydraulics. He has written some 200 papers in review journals,
authored and co-authored more than 10 books and was involved in 15 PhD theses. He is
an IAHR Member from 1982 and an ASCE Member from 1984. He was an Associate
Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering from 2000 to 2006, when taking over as
Editor the Journal of Hydraulic Research. Hager received a number of awards, notably
from ASCE in 1988 the J.C. Stevens Award, in 1994 the Best Technical Note Award, in
1997 the Arthur Ippen Award from IAHR, in 2006 the Borland Lecture Award from
Colorado State University, and in 2007 the ASCE Hydraulic Structures Award.
Interests: Impulse waves, Scour, Dambreaks and dike overtopping, Wastewater hydraulics, Hydraulic structures