About

Ioana Popescu is a Professor of Hydroinformatics at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. Her research includes computational methods, flood modeling and vulnerability, lake and reservoir modeling, and water supply systems optimization. She is particularly interested in integrating mathematical models into decision support systems. Ioana is a member of several engineering associations and research schools, including the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), the European Geophysical Union (EGU), and the SENSE research school. She has also served as chairman of the IAHR Innovation and Professional Development Division. In 2000, Ioana worked as a postdoc researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, focusing on urban infrastructure rehabilitation and developing a finite element prediction tool for flexible pavement structures under environmental and traffic-induced loads.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

computational hydraulics, modelling; decision support systems, optimisation, flooding

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