39th World Congress Awards
IAHR honoured excellence and our outstanding members at the Opening Session of the 1st IAHR Online Forum. IAHR awards acknowledge the careers, papers, and projects of outstanding members who have had a remarkable impact on hydro-environment engineering and research. Given every two years at the biennial World Congresses, the 2021 awards were announced at the first ever IAHR Online Forum and were presented at the opening ceremony of the 39th IAHR World Congress in Granada on 24 June 2022.
The IAHR Awards Committee oversees the nomination, selection, and awarding of laureates and is composed of the current chairs of the technical divisions, Robert Ettema, Hyseop Woo, and Silke Wieprecht. The Committee would like to recognise the many outstanding nominations received, which made the final decision very difficult.
Honorary Membership Award
The Honorary Membership Award, the most prestigious honour conferred by the IAHR Council, is bestowed on up to three distinguished IAHR members for their lifetime contributions to hydro-environment engineering and research and their outstanding service to the association.
Anton Schleiss
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
For his highly productive career as an authority on the design and performance of dams and hydropower facilities.
Peter A. Davies
The University of Dundee
For his outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics and hydraulics, and his service to IAHR.
Teodoro Estrela
Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Spain
For his highly productive career in hydraulic engineering and his leadership facilitating extensive support of IAHR’s operation.
Arthur Thomas Ippen Award
The A.T. Ippen Award was established in 1977 to honour the memory of Professor Ippen, IAHR President (1959-1963), IAHR honorary member (1963-1974), and for many decades an inspirational leader in fluids research, hydraulic engineering, and international co-operation and understanding. The Award is presented biennially by IAHR to one of its members who has demonstrated conspicuously outstanding ability, originality, and accomplishment in basic hydraulic research and/or applied hydraulic engineering, and who holds great promise for continuation of a high level of productivity in this profession.
Sebastien Erpicum
Liege University
For his outstanding leading research regarding the hydraulics and fluid mechanics of hydraulic structures.
M. Selim Yalim Lifetime Archievement Award
Established in 2006 to honour the memory of Professor M. Selim Yalin, Honorary Member (1925-2007), and Fluvial Hydraulics Section Chairman (1986-1991), remembered for his prolific and pioneering research contributions in fluvial hydraulics and sediment transport, and for his inspirational mentoring of students and young researchers, the M. Selim Yalin Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred upon an IAHR member whose experimental, theoretical, or numerical research has resulted in significant and enduring contributions to the understanding of the physics of phenomena and/or processes in hydraulic science or engineering, and who has demonstrated outstanding skills in graduate teaching and supervision.
Íñigo J. Losada Rodríguez
Environmental Hydraulics Institute (IHCantabria)
For his significant and enduring contributions to the understanding of the physics of phenomena and processes in hydraulic science and engineering that have had a wide international impact on both applied engineering and policy making.
Harold Jan Schoemaker Award
The H.J. Schoemaker Award was established in 1980 to recognise the efforts made by Professor Schoemaker, IAHR Secretary (1960-1979), in guiding the Journal of Hydraulic Research in its formative years. The Award is granted to the author(s) of the paper judged the most outstanding paper published in the IAHR Journal of Hydraulic Research in the two years preceding the IAHR World Congress.
*Christophe Ancey couldn't assist
Christophe Ancey
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
For the most outstanding paper Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism.
John F. Kennedy Student Paper Competition
The John F. Kennedy Student Paper Competition recognises conference papers from undergraduate and postgraduate students on the basis of written and oral presentations at the IAHR World Congress.
Antoine Villefer | 1st place
EDF, France
Acacia Markov| 2nd place
University of Otawa, Canada
Nicolas Hanousek | 3rd place
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Willi H. Hager JHR Best Reviewer Award
The Willi H. Hager Journal of Hydraulic Research (JHR) Best Reviewer Award was established in 2012 and is sponsored by former JHR Editor Prof. Willi H. Hager. The Award is presented to up to three reviewers, preferably under 45 years of age, judged to have provided the most outstanding reviews of the papers submitted to the IAHR Journal of Hydraulic Research during the preceding two-year period. The Award recipients are selected by the JHR Editor, Associate Editors, and Prof. Willi H. Hager among the nominees made by the JHR Associate Editors.
*Huan-Feng Duan was represented by a colleague
Nadia Penna
Università della Calabria
Juvenal Letelier
Universidad de Chile
Huan-Feng Duan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Special Award to the most active YPNs in 2021
IAHR Queensland Young Professionals Network
The IAHR Queensland YPN brings together students and young water professionals in the science and engineering fields. The network has the support of Griffith Universitys Cities Research Institute.
IAHR Cardiff Young Professionals Network
The network includes researchers from Cardiff University's Hydro-environmental Research Centre and young professionals from local companies who specialise in hydro-environmental engineering.The Young Professionals Network evolved from the Cardiff University IAHR Student Chapter, which originally consisted of PhD Students only in the Hydro-environmental Research Centre.
IAHR Venezuela Young Professionals Network
The YPN Venezuela Young Professionals Network, created in May 2019, is made up of 13 members (11 young professionals and 2 students), all professionals from the hydro-environmental engineering sector.
IAHR Industry Innovation Award
This Industry Innovation Award is conferred by IAHR during the World Congress on a recent local innovation in design of lasting and international importance. It has the purpose of giving international professional recognition to the work of local hydro-environment engineers.
IAHR Hydro-Environment World Heritage Award
The Hydro-Environment World Heritage Award was established in 2012 is conferred by IAHR during the World Congress on a local infrastructure of lasting and international importance. It has the purpose of giving international professional recognition to the work of local hydro-environment engineers, and should demonstrably have stood the test of time (and be at least one hundred years old) and be accepted and valued nationally.
