Corrado Gisonni, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy), Keynote lecturer

"Urban Resilience to Floods: real challenges and misleading myths"

Corrado Gisonni is author of over 150 papers, also published in review journals, and co-author of the “Italian Handbook for Sewer System Design" and author of  "Wastewater Hydraulics - from theory to practice" (co-authored by Willi H. Hager). Current research topics are: sewer hydraulics, supercritical open channel flows, water distribution network, fluvial hydraulics and river engineering. In addition transients in water supply systems has received particular research attention.
Since 2012, he is Full Professor (Chair of Hydraulic Engineering and Hydraulic Structures) at the Engineering Dept. of the Università della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ (formerly, Seconda Università di Napoli).
From 2016 to 2022, Corrado Gisonni was Chair of the European Regional Division - International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (I.A.H.R.).
Since 2019, he is in charge as Government Commissioner for the safety of the Gran Sasso hydraulic system (Italy), directly engaged by the Italian President of the Ministers Council.
On Jun 20, 2023, The IAHR Council unanimously approved the nomination of Corrado Gisonni as an inaugural Fellow Member of IAHR.

 

Petra Amparo López Jiménez, University of Zaragoza (Spain), Keynote lecturer

"Towards sustainability in Water Distribution Networks"

P. Amparo López Jiménez is  Full Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Director of the Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Valencia, in Spain. Her specialty is Hydraulics numerical modeling; and hydraulic machinery, focused on sustainability applications for urban water distribution networks. Her research analyzes the use of pumps as turbines in urban networks ,for the recovery of hydraulic energy. She is the director of 12 Doctoral Theses, with an h-index of 21, she is the author of more than 120 indexed articles and a very large number of contributions to international conferences, books and congresses. Since 2021 she is vice president of the International Association of Hydroenvironmental Engineering, leading the pillar of digitalization in the Association's Strategic Plan. 

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Tomasz Okruszko, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland), Keynote lecturer

"Is the river health concept useful for water management purposes?"

Prof. Dr. Tomasz Okruszko, MScEng, is a professor at the Department of Hydrology, Meteorology and Water Management of the Institute of Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Vice-Rector for Science at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and Chairman of the Water Management Committee at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He deals with hydrological issues in protecting or restoring wetlands and the possibilities of using hydrological models in water and economic planning. 

 

 Kaisa Västilä, Aalto University / Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) (Finland), Keynote lecturer

"Vegetated floodplains in nature-based water management: hydraulics, water quality, biodiversity and policy research"

D.Sc. (Tech.) Kaisa Västilä is a Senior Research Scientist at the Marine and freshwater solutions unit of the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and is also working in some projects at Aalto University (Finland). She researches the flow hydraulics and the transport of sediment and nutrients in rivers, streams and ditches. She has been particularly contributing to the description of the complex interactions between riparian vegetation and flow resistance, mixing processes, fine sediments and nutrient retention processes. She has strong expertise in the development and assessments of nature-based solutions in river and agricultural water management.

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Tomasz Dysarz,  Poznan University of Life Sciences / Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering / Department of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering (Poland), Invited lecturer

"Modelling impacts of sediment transport and climate change on flood hazard zones"

He is a scientist and lecturer working at Poznan University of Life Sciences. In his research and academic work, he utilizes hydrodynamic and hydrologic simulation tools intensively. His interests include assessment of flood hazard, sediment transport in rivers, reservoir sedimentation as well as analyses of meteorological and hydrological drought. Tomasz is an author and co-author of many publications. In the periods 2013-2015 and 2017-2020, he worked in the Center of Flood and Drought Modeling at the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management as an expert in hydrodynamic modelling and GIS. As an employee of the Institute, he was involved in projects aimed at the implementation of the EU Flood Directive in Poland. Currently, he is an active member of two IAHR technical commissions: Flood Risk Management and Hydroinformatics. He is also an Associate Editor for the International Journal of River Basin Management (Taylor&Francis) and a member of the Editorial Panel of the Journal of Flood Risk Management (Wiley). Additionally, he cooperates with many scientific journals as a reviewer, e.g. Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), Hydrological Processes (Wiley) or Revista Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos. He cooperates with Flumen Institute in Barcelona (Spain), Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (Portugal) and Universitas Kristen Petra in Surabaja (Indonesia).

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