About

Mario Franca is Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Germany. Before joining KIT, Mario held academic positions at IHE Delft and TUDelft in the Netherlands, at the EPFL in Switzerland, at the New University of Lisbon and at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. He served in many instances as consultant in hydraulic engineering and he was head of the hydraulics department in an engineering company, having participated and directed applied projects on dams, hydropower, water supply, river engineering, drainage, mining sites, natural floods and dambreak emergency planning and safety of hydraulic infrastructures. Mário's research focus on river engineering and restoration; safety of hydraulic structures; flood risk; turbulent processes in open channel flows; fluvial hydro-morphodynamics; density currents; and conventional and non-conventional hydropower production.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

hydraulic, river engineering, sediment transport, turbulence, floor risk, hydraulic structures, fluvial geomorphology, gravity currents, conventional and non-conventional hydropower

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