Staff

The Staff

School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering:

Professor Graeme Dandy, BE, MEngSc (Melb.), PhD (MIT), CPEng, FIEAust, Professor, has extensive experience in the application of optimisation and artificial intelligence methods to water resources planning and management. He has carried out research into the application of genetic algorithms to optimising the design and operations of water distribution systems and the use of artificial neural networks for forecasting hydrologic variables and water quality. He has over 160 technical publications and has received over $1,500,000 in research funding in the last 5 years.

Assoc Prof Trevor Daniell, BE(Hons), ME (Adel.), MAS (ANU), MIEAust, CPEng, has expertise in the fields of hydrology, water resources assessment, planning and management, and urban and environmental water systems modelling. He has published over 90 technical papers and has extensive experience as a professional engineer working in the fields of hydrology and water resources management in SE Asia, the Pacific Region and Australia. He is the Australian Representative on the UNESCO International Hydrological Program SE Asia Regional Committee.

Professor Martin Lambert, BE, PhD (Newcastle), MIEAust, has expertise in the fields of hydraulic engineering and hydrology. He has extensive experience in both physical and numerical models of natural river systems, particularly looking at the momentum interaction between flood plains and main river channels. He has also been working with hydrologic simulation models of rainfall and runoff that are used as tools to investigate joint probability problems in river and coastal engineering. He has strong links with researchers at the University of Newcastle, Australia and has worked at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

Professor Holger Maier, BE, PhD (Adel.), MIEAust, has expertise in the application of artificial neural networks to modelling environmental and water resources variables, the application of evolutionary optimisation methods (e.g. genetic algorithms, ant colony optimisation) to water resources and supply problems, the incorporation of uncertainty in water resources and environmental management, the formulation and application of risk-based performance criteria for water resources and supply problems and the assessment of river health.

Professor Angus Simpson, BE (Monash), MSc (Col. St.), PhD (Mich.), MIEAust, Professor, has expertise in the analysis, design and optimisation of municipal and irrigation water distribution systems (including water hammer analysis). He has developed a comprehensive research program in genetic algorithm optimisation of water distribution systems and scheduling of irrigation deliveries. Other areas of research include leak detection and pipe roughness calibration in water distribution systems. He has over 90 publications in these fields and has attracted over $850,000 in research funding.

Assoc Prof David Walker, BE, MEngSc (Adel.), PhD (London), MIEAust, Senior has extensive experience in coastal and hydraulic engineering and over 25 publications in this area. He has developed a suite of computer programs for numerical modelling of hydraulic phenomena including a steady-state model for open channel flow and a two dimensional dynamic model for more general situations. His experience also includes ocean wave data collection and analysis and the setting up and operation of coastal models in the laboratory.

School of Mathematical Sciences:

Dr Andrew Metcalfe

Postgraduate students

There are some 30 postgraduate students enrolled in PhD and Masters programs carrying out research under the supervision of Research Group members.