Presentations & Mentoring
Present your work, get mentoring and network with other young professionals and experts in your field around the world!
30 November - 2 December 2021. Online

1st Young Professionals Congress   Register to keep updated about the 2nd YP Congress

The IAHR Young Professionals Congresses give young professionals, researchers and students the opportunity to present their work and access mentoring from leading global experts. Representing a unique opportunity for networking and promoting their work, the success of the inaugural YP Congress in 2020 with 924 registered participants has ensured that the event is now established as an ongoing annual series organised by young professionals and for young professionals.

 Why to participate?

• The congress is a wonderful opportunity to present your work and get mentoring from leading experts. 

• It represents a unique opportunity for networking as well.

• You will meet with representatives of the IAHR technical committees.

• You will be invited to meet and interact with your peers and mentors through breakout sessions. 

• You will be able to connect with other Young Professionals Networks (YPNs) worldwide and by areas of expertise.

• This is also the chance to make your work known.

• All the proceedings will be published and made available in the IAHR e-library after the congress.

• Selected works will be invited to publish a paper in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research.

 Call for abstracts

Young professionals will present their work by submitting an extended 2-page abstract for review by the International Scientific Committee. The deadline for submitting your abstract is 31 August. Once accepted, your abstract will be assigned to one of the sessions chaired by the IAHR technical committees, and on the date of the event it will need to be supported by a one-page poster and a 3- to 5-minute presentation. Young professionals will receive feedback from mentors on their work and will be invited to join the break sessions so they can meet with their peers as well as the leaders of the IAHR technical committees.

 Benefits

• FREE registration

• Open to all! 

• IAHR young professionals members and non-members.

• Students but also to young professionals

 Key dates

• 25 June 2021: Call for abstracts opens.  

• 31 August 2021: Call for abstracts closes. 

• 15 October 2021: Notification of acceptance. 

• 30 October 2021: Poster and final extended abstract submission. 

• 30 November - 2 December 2021: Congress.
  

 Congress themes (corresponding to the IAHR Technical Committees)

Hydraulics

• Fluid Mechanics

• Experimental Methods and Instrumentation

• Fluvial Hydraulics

• Hydraulic Machinery and Systems

• Hydraulic Structures

Hydro-environment

• Climate Change Adaptation

• Ecohydraulics

• Coastal & Maritime Hydraulics

• Flood Risk Management

• Groundwater Hydraulics and Management

• Hydroinformatics

• Urban Drainage

• Water Resources Management

Innovation and Professional Development

• Education and Professional Development

• Higher Education and E-learning

Working groups

• Global Water Security 

• Marine Outfall Systems

• Reservoir Sedimentation

• Sustainable Development Goals 

• Transient Flows

 Organising Committee

• Chair: David Ferras, IHE Delft, The Netherlands (Chair)

• Dominique Vertus, Universidad Tecnológica de Panama, Panama

• Emanuele Quaranta, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

• Eva Fenrich, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany

• Gaetano Crispino, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

• Jose Luis Hinostroza Gonzales, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería GEAHH, Peru

• José M. Carrillo, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain

• Livia Pitorac, Flow Design Bureau, Norway

• Manish Pandey, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India

• Peshang Hama Karim, University of Warsaw, Poland

• Silke Wieprecht, University of Stuttgart, Germany

 International Scientific Committee

• Abdelazim Negm, Zagzaig University. Egypt

• Alessio Radice, Politecnico di Milano. Italia

• Amparo López, UPV, Valencia

• Ana Margarida Lopes Saraiva Alves Bento, CIIMAR. Portugal

• Andrei-Mugur Georgescu, Technical University of Civil Engineering. Romania

• Andrej Lipej, University of Novo mesto. Slovenia

• Aonghus McNabola, Trinity College Dublin. Ireland

• Arturo Marcano, Andres Bello Catholic University. Venezuela

• Badronnisa Yusuf, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Malaysia

• Benjamin Dewals, University of Liege. Belgium

• Blair Johnson, University of Texas. USA

• Carlos de Oliveira Galvão, Federal University of Campina Grande. Brazil

• Chirag Trivedi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Norway

• Claudia Adduce, University Roma Tre. Italy

• Corrado Altomare, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Spain

• Damien Violeau, EDF France. France.

• Daniel Horna, Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia. Peru

• Daniela Molinari, Politecnico di Milano. Italy

• Dejana Đorđević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering. Serbia

• Elpida Kolokytha,  Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki. Greece 

• Erasmo Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Colombia

• Eric Duviella, IMT Lille Douai. France

• Freddy Florez, JRI Ingenieria. Austria

• Frédérique Larrarte, Université Gustave Eiffel. France

• Gensheng Zhao, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute. China

• Gordon Gilja, University of Zagreb. Croatia

• Guilherme Moura Paredes, Universidade Lusófona do Porto. Portugal

• Hamed Sarkardeh, Hakim Sabzevari University. Iran

• Hui Weng Goh, University Sains Malaysia. Malaysia

• Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa. United States

• James E Ball. University of Technology Sydney. Australia

• Jesús Bryan Gamarra Rojas, IAHR CIDRHI YPN. Perú

• Jochen Aberle, Technische Universität Braunschweig. Germany

• José Adriasola Velasco, Bechtel. Chile

• José Anta Álvarez, Universidade da Coruña. Spain

• José Gilberto Dalfré Filho, State University of Campinas-Unicamp. Brazil

• José M. Carrillo, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Spain

• Juan Daniel Rios-Arboleda, Cooperative University of Colombia. Colombia

• Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez,  Universidad de los Andes. Colombia

• Julio Isaac Montenegro Gambini, National University of Engineering (UNI). Peru

• Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak, EDF France. France

• Katinka Koll, TU Braunschweig. Germany

• Kelly Kibler, University of Central Florida. United States

• Majid Mohammadian, U. Ottawa. Canada

• Mário Franca, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. The Netherlands

• Matias Duran-Matute, Eindhoven University of Technology. The Netherlands

• Michael Nones, Polish Academy of Sciences. Poland

• Michael Tritthart, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Austria

• Modesto Pérez-Sánchez, Universitat Politècnica de València. Spain

• Nils Rüther, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Norway

• Pablo Daniel Spalletti, Instituto Nacional del Agua (National Water Institute). Argentina

• Pablo Ouro, The University of Manchester. United Kingdom

• Paulo Rosa Santos, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Portugal

• Pavel Rudolf Brno, University of Technology. Czech Republic

• Philippe Gourbesville, Université Cote d'Azur. France

• Rita F. Carvalho, University of Coimbra. Portugal

• Roger Falconer, Cardiff University. UK

• Romeo Florin, SUSAN-RESIGA Politehnica University Timișoara. Romania

• Ronald R. Gutierrez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Perú

• Rui ML Ferreira. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

• Saeed Shaeri, Charles Sturt University. Australia

• Sajjad Roshandel, School of Informatics, SCSC Lab, Xiamen University. China

• Sebastian Schwindt, Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems (IWS), University of Stuttgart. Germany

• Serhat Kucukali, Hacettepe University. Turkey

• Shaohua Marko HSU, Feng Chia University. Taiwan

• Shooka Karimpour, York University. Canada

• Silke Wieprecht, University of Stuttgart. Germany

• Stefan Felder, UNSW Sydney, Water Research Laboratory. Australia

• Stefan Haun, University of Stuttgart. Germany

• Valentin Heller, University of Nottingham. United Kingdom

• Valeri Penchev, BDCA. Bulgaria

• Victor Hugo Hidalgo Diaz, Escuela Politecnica Nacional. Ecuador

• Vladimir Nikora, University of Aberdeen. United Kingdom

• William Jaen, ESPOL YPN. Ecuador

• Xiaobing Chen, Hohai University.  China

• Xuan zhang, Hohai University. China

• Yeonjoo Kim, Yonsei University. South Korea

• Yongping Chen, Hohai University. China

• Yun Li, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute. China

• Zhiqun Daniel Deng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Virginia Tech. United States

 Guidelines for extended abstract submission

• Your extended abstract must be submitted through the online submission form using the following template and guidelines in Word. The deadline is 31 August.

• All extended abstracts must be submitted in English. Please note that proofreading English text is compulsory. The use of native English reviewers is highly recommended.

• Your extended abstract must be 2 pages maximum and a count of 850-1000 words (including a short abstract of 150 words and a maximum of 5 keywords).

• The International Scientific Committee will review all the submissions during the month of September. If your extended abstract is accepted, it will be assigned to one of the sessions. You will then need to submit a one-page poster (using a 3 columns template or a 4 columns template) by 30 October 2021. Instructions on its submission will be provided at a later stage.

• Presenters will do a 3-5 minute presentation at the 2nd IAHR Young Professionals Congress supported by the poster.

• Proceedings will be published and made available in the IAHR e-library after the Congress. Only works presented during the congress will be included in the  proceedings.

• The sessions will be livestreamed and also recorded and uploaded to the IAHR website.

 More information

• For any questions concerning the Congress, please contact iahr@iahr.org

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