Conrad Wasko

Dr Conrad Wasko is a civil engineer with expertise in environmental hydrology and currently holds a Sydney Horizon Fellowship.

Dr Wasko’s research focuses on understanding the effects of climate change on extreme rainfall and flooding. His work is cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and he is a lead author of the current update to the climate change considerations in Australia’s guidelines on flood estimation.

Dr Wasko worked as an engineer before undertaking his PhD in civil engineering at UNSW Sydney in 2016. He continued his research at the Water Research Centre at UNSW, followed by a McKenzie Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. He then held an ARC DECRA Fellowship at the University of Melbourne.

His work has received numerous awards, including the Lorenz G Straub Award (2016), the MSSANZ Early Career Research Excellence Award (2019), a Victoria Fellowship (2020) and the Batterham Medal from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (2023).