Cardiff University

Faculty Member, Engineering

Halcrow Professor of Water Management and Director of the Hydro-environmental Research Centre

Cardiff School of Engineering

About

Roger Falconer is Halcrow Professor of Water Management and Director of the Hydro-environmental Research Centre in the Cardiff School of Engineering at Cardiff University, U.K. He is also currently President of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. He was previously Professor of Water Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bradford. He graduated with a PhD from Imperial College, London, in 1976.  He manages a range of research contracts on modelling flow (including flooding), water quality and sediment transport processes in coastal, estuarine and river waters and has published over 350 papers and 70 technical reports in the field.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Learned Society of Wales and the City and Guilds Institute of London.  He was awarded the 1999 Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, the 1994 Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Telford Premium and the 1991 International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR) Ippen Award.  His computer models have been used extensively in over 100 Environmental Impact Assessment studies worldwide and he has served as a member of council of several institutions, including the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research.

To view his recent journal publications go to:
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3714-2008

To view more details of his activities at Cardiff University go to:
http://www.engin.cf.ac.uk/whoswho/profile.asp?RecordNo=19&Go.x=14&Go.y=9

To view more details about his reseach centre at Cardiff University go to:
http://hrc.engineering.cf.ac.uk/

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