Topic：Hazard Resilience: Current Research and Future Challenges

Speaker：Prof. Nigel Wright, from University of Leeds

Time：14:30pm Apr. 8, 2013

Venue： 3rd-floor Meeting Room, IMHE

Brief introduction to the speaker：

Prof. Nigel Wright has over 25 years experience in modelling fluid flow in the built and natural environment.　 Particular applications are inundation prediction, vulnerability assessment, river flows and low-head hydropower.  Modelling techniques encompass Large Eddy Simulation, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Godunov-based methods, parallel processing and model encapsulation.

More recently Nigel's research has focused on river basin management and integrated water resources management and the wider physical, social and economic aspects of each of these.　 This work continues through an EPSRC Discipline Hopping grant to spend time working in the Leeds Sustainability Research Institute.

Nigel has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.  He has been awarded and managed grants over £4 million from a wide variety of funding agencies.  Along with co-authors in 2009 he was awarded the Harold Schoemaker Award of the IAHR for the best journal paper in the period 2007-9.

Until 2009 Nigel was a professor at UNESCO-IHE in Delft, the Netherlands where he still holds an appointment along with a chair at TU Delft.