Roger Falconer – The Conversation

CH2M HILL Professor of Water Management, Cardiff University

Roger Falconer is CH2M HILL Professor of Water Management, Director of the Hydro-environmental Research Centre in the School of Engineering at Cardiff University. He was previously Professor of Water Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bradford. He manages a range of research contracts on hydro-environmental modelling and has published over 400 papers and technical reports in the field. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), the Learned Society of Wales, the Institution of Civil Engineers and is currently President of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. His computer models have been used extensively in over 100 Environmental Impact Assessment studies worldwide and he consults regularly on major UK and international projects. He was a member of the Government’s Expert Panel for the Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Project and is a member of the Expert Panel and Regional Committee of Hafren Power.

Experience

1997–present

Director of Hydro-environmental Research Centre, School of Engineering, Cardiff University
1987–1997

Head of Department (1993-97) and Porfessor of Environmental Hydraulics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Bradford
1977–1986

Lecturer in Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Civil Engineeering, University of Birmingham

Education

1994

University of London, DSc(Eng)
1992

University of Birmingham, DEng
1977

Imperial College, London University, PhD, DIC
1974

University of Washington, Seattle, USA, MS
1973

King's College, London University , BSc (Eng)

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1997)
Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2011)
Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute of London (1997)

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