About

Catherine Swartenbroekx holds a PhD in hydraulics from the Université catholique de Louvain (2012). She has 10+ years of experience in fluvial andstructure hydraulics. As from 2013 she works in the Hydraulic Research Laboratoryof the Service Public de Wallonie, Belgium,as a research engineer. Since then, she has been in charge of several studies onnavigation locks, river weirs and hydraulicstructures, using both numerical andphysical models, and field measurements.

Career Type:

Practitioner/Engineers

Organization Type:

Governments and Public Utilities

Expertise Fields/Interests:

- Hydraulic structures for inland navigation as locks, weirs and mobile dams - Erosion processes including bank erosion - Solid transport monitoring - Physical modeling and field measurement - Water resource management

Major Achievements:

PhD: 2DH two-layer shallow-water model for flows over mobile beds with erodible banks