Prof. Dr. Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen

McGill University

Brace Endowed Chair Professor of Civil Engineering

My Profile

About

Professor Nguyen is currently Brace Endowed Chair Professor of Civil Engineering at McGill University (Canada). He is widely recognized for his novel research in Hydrologic Engineering and Water Resources Management covering a remarkable range of topics including climate change impact and adaptation, modelling of hydrologic extremes, and watershed modelling for sustainable water resource development. With over 250 influential peer-reviewed publications his pioneering research works have made significant contributions to the research community as well as to engineering practices worldwide. As a visionary research leader with a broad scientific expertise, he has been invited to serve in several national and international expert committees, and to deliver prestigious lectures at numerous national and international scientific conferences around the world. In addition, he has served in editorial boards of several renowned scientific international journals as well as invited professors at universities in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Hydrologic Engineering Water Resources Management Climate Change Impact and Adaptation

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Urban Drainage
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics
Committee on Flood Risk Management
Committee on Water Resources Management
IAHR-Hohai Co-Committee on Higher Education and E-learning
Committee on Global Water Security

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Climate Change Working Group	Member	2018-09-10	2018-09-11
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation	Member	2018-09-07	Now
JHER Editorial	Associate Editors	2018-01-01	Now

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Modeling of Extreme Rainfall Processes in a Changing Climate	2023
Climate change projections for impact and adaptation studies at the urban watershed scale	2022
Linking Climate Change to Impact and Adaptation Studies: Modeling of Extreme Rainfall Processes over a Wide Range of Space and Time Scales	2019
A Spatio-Temporal Statistical Downscaling Approach to Deriving Extreme Rainfall IDF Relations at Ungauged Sites in the Context of Climate Change	2018
Scale-Invariance Generalized Logistic (GLO) Model for Estimating Extreme Design Rainfalls in the Context of Climate Change	2018
A Decision Support Tool for Constructing Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency Relations for Urban Hydraulic Structure Design in a Changing Climate	2017
Activated Carbon Derived from the Tropical Agricultural Wastes (Corn COB, Rice Straw) and Its Application for Treatment of the Industrial Wastewater	2014
Behaviour of Urban Catchment Hydrology to Future Climate Change Scenarios	2014
Evaluation of GEV Parameter Estimation Methods to Assess the Scaling Behaviour of Extreme Rainfalls	2014
Linking Climate Change to Hydrological Impact and Adaptation Studies: Recent Developments in Downscaling Methods	2014
Statistical Modeling of Precipitation Process for an Ungauged Site in the Context of Climate Change	2014
A Statistical Approach to Modeling of Daily Rainfall Process in the Context of Climate Change	2013
Review of Climate Change Impact Analysis on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage	2013

My Videos

Title	Year
[Day2] Climate Change Adaptation - 3rd iahrYPCongress	2023
[Day2] Climate Change and Case Studies - 3rd iahrYPCongress	2023
Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen - Monitoring and forecasting of extreme rainfall events - application in parts of Canada	2021
Van Thanh Van Nguyen - Linking Climate Change to Urban Water Infrastructure Design: Challenges in Developing a Canadian Engineering Technical Guide	2021
Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen - Linking Climate Change to Impact and Adaptation Studies in Urban Areas: Recent Advances and Shortcomings in Modeling of Extreme Rainfall Processes	2020

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date