About

I am an Associate Professor in hydraulic engineering and applied fluid mechanics at the Water Research Laboratory. I hold a Dipl.-Ing. from RWTH Aachen University, Germany and a PhD from the University of Queensland. I joined UNSW in 2014, having established and leading the hydraulic engineering research group conducting high-level fundamental and applied research in WRL’s large-scale experimental facilities. I explore advanced experimental methods in the laboratory and at full-scale, to resolve applied and fundamental research challenges in hydraulic engineering. This includes air-water flow phenomena and optimisation of water engineering infrastructure for flow conveyance, fish passage and environmental flows.

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

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My expertise is in the fields of hydraulic engineering, ecohydraulics and environmental fluid mechanics. I improve hydraulic designs, flow performances and environmental flows in urban stormwater, flow conveyance, wastewater and irrigation systems. More recently my research further diversified into fishways and impacts of climate change on the hydrodynamics of estuarine systems. My research is mostly experimental exploring new technologies and advancing data processing methods for improved understanding of complex flow processes at both laboratory and full scale. My specialised research interests include: - Energy dissipation and design optimisation of hydraulic infrastructure. - Scale effects, physical modelling and field-scale observations of air-water flows - Sustainability in hydraulic structures engineering - UNSW tube fishway project to enable fish passage - Design of instrumentation and advanced data processing tools. - LIDAR and other remote sensing technologies in hydraulic structures engineering.

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