Professor Roger Falconer joins YICODE

We are more than pleased to announce that Professor Roger Falconer, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales,  has been appointed as Chair Professor at the Yangtze Institute of Conservation and Development (YICODE).

Roger is Emeritus Professor of Water Engineering (previously Professor 1997-18) and Founding Director of the Hydro-environmental Research Centre (1997-15) in the School of Engineering at Cardiff University, and an independent consultant in water and environmental engineering. His rich career life has centred on water security, river and coastal process modelling, hydro-environmental research, flood risk modelling and management, and tidal and hydro-power. He has published extensively in the field of computational hydro-environmental modelling and has delivered numerous keynote and external lectures world-wide. His wonderful expertise has allowed him to provide extensive specialist advice to industry and government departments, on a wide range of water environmental impact assessment (EIA) projects, both in the UK and overseas. He was elected President (2011-15) and Honorary Member (2017) of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). 

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