Editorial Board Journal of Hydraulic Research

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.