Prof. Helmut Habersack

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research (IWA-BOKU)

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Helmut Habersack holds currently a UNESCO Chair on “Integrated River Research and Management, coordinating the UNESCO IHP “World´s Large Rivers Initiative”, and is a Full Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Modelling at the Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria. In 2019 he became Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research, he has been the Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Advanced Methods in River Monitoring, Modelling and Engineering. Helmut Habersack has over 25 years of experience in sediment transport, hydropower, river engineering/morphology / restoration, flood risk management, ecohydraulics and navigation. He is the author of over 100 SCI journal publications, 10 monographs, over 100 proceedings etc. and gave over 150 national and international (keynote) lectures. Helmut Habersack organizes the International Conferences „On the Status and Future of the Worlds´s Large Rivers“, which were held in 2011 in Vienna, 2015 in Manaus/Amazon and 2017 in New Delhi. He won the“Science2Business 2015”Award.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

river morphology; sediment transport; insect cell cultur; integrated flood risk management; ecohydraulics; sustainable hydropower; optimisation of navigation fairway;

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Fluid Mechanics
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics
Committee on Water Resources Management
Committee on Ecohydraulics
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Hydraulic Structures

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Challenges for the Establishment of Sediment Budgets – Comparison of Three Sediment Budgets in Austria	2022
Coherent Structures, Sediment Entrainment and Varying Shields Numbers Below Threshold Conditions of Motion	2022
Danube, Niger and Mekong – Comparing the Sediment Status of Large Rivers	2022
From Snow to Sea — Managing enclosed seas under climate threat	2022
RFID Bedload Monitoring in Austria	2022
Sediment Replenishment Along Rivers - Advection and Dispersion of Gravel Inputs	2022
Suitability of Artificial Gravel Structures as Hydraulic Measures for Low Flow Regulation in a Navigable River	2022
The Effect of Submerged Groynes in a Near-Natural Rough Open Channel Flow	2022
Variability of Shape and Extent of a Sediment Plume in a Two-Way Coupled LES Model Using an Euler-Lagrange Approach	2022
Width Estimator for Restored Streams (WIDEST). I: Model Development	2022
Width Estimator for Restored Streams (WIDEST). II: Model Application	2022
Major issues in Large River Basin Management	2020
Coherent Structures During Particle Entrainment	2019
Delta Formation in Reservoirs of Run-of-River Hydropower Plants in Gravel Bed Rivers – Experimental Studies with Nonuniform Sediments	2019
Research on Alpine Sediment Processes, Morphodynamics and Ecosystem Behaviour Considering Extreme Events	2019
Sediment (Dis)Balance – a Significant River Management Issue	2019
Three-Dimensional Variability of Suspended Load Transport in Rivers and Its Ecological Implications in Terms of Reservoir Flushing and Controlled Reservoir Drawdown	2019
Dam Sedimentation Management and Ecological Impact Assessment in Large River Basins	2018
Ecological and Sedimentological Monitoring Concerning the Emptying of a Bedload Retention Dam	2018
Experiments on Turbulence and Near Bank Vorticities in an Open Channel Sharp Bend	2018
Hydrodynamic and morphodynamic sensitivity of a river’s main channel to groyne geometry	2018
Numerical Groyne Layout Optimisation for Restoration Projects in Large Rivers: An Adaptive Approach Towards a Desired Morphodynamic Equilibrium	2018
The Impact of Climate Change on Sediment Supply, Transport and Habitat Forming Processes in Small River Catchments –Case Studies from Upper Austria	2018
Spatio-Temporal Interaction of Morphological Variability with Hydrodynamic Parameters in the Scope of Integrative Measures at the River Danube	2016
Numerical Analysis of the Effects of Engineering Measures on the Lower Danube	2015
Innovative Approaches in Sediment Transport Monitoring and Modelling	2013
Devellopment and Testing of a Device for Direct Bed Shear Stress Measurement	2012
Non-uniformity and layering in sediment transport modelling 1: flume simulations	2011
Non-uniformity and layering in sediment transport modelling 2: river application	2011
Optimizing the Suspended Sediment Monitoring Strategy by Using Adcps at Austrian Rivers	2009
Evaluating Functionality and Sustainability of River Widenings at the Kamp River/Austria Concerning to Flood Protection and Aquatic Ecology Including a Numerical Sensitive Test	2007
Extreme Floods and Integrated Flood Management	2007
Simulation of Flow Characteristics in Groyne Fields Using a Particle Tracing Approach	2007
Reservoir Management and Sediment Budget	2003
Efficiency of Local River Restorationsresults from Numerical Modelling and Monitoring	1997

My Videos

Title	Year
Helmut Habersack - Panel Discussion of 1st IAHR Online Forum Source to Sea	2021

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date