About

Catherine Swartenbroekx holds a PhD in hydraulics from the Université catholique de Louvain (2012). She has 15+ years of experience in fluvial and structure hydraulics. As from 2013 she works in the Hydraulic Research Laboratory of the Service Public de Wallonie, Belgium, as a research engineer. Since then, she has been in charge of several studies on navigation locks, river weirs and hydraulic structures, using both numerical and physical models, and field measurements. Since 2020, she is YP Belgian representative at PIANC InCom, the commission for inland navigation.

Career Type:

Practitioner/Engineers

Organization Type:

Governments and Public Utilities

Expertise Fields/Interests:

- Hydraulic structures for inland navigation as locks, weirs and mobile dams - Erosion processes including bank erosion and dike breaching - Solid transport monitoring - Physical modeling and field measurement - Water ressource management - Nautical studies

Major Achievements:

PhD: 2DH two-layer shallow-water model for flows over mobile beds with erodible banks