JBA Risk Management Limited
About
I am currently, since January 2020, employed as a Senior Analyst at JBA Risk Management Ltd, Skipton, UK. Despite being in a consultancy company the core remit of my responsibilities is very much research oriented in nature. The main goal of my current endeavours is to generate static return period flood maps on reach and catchment scale using state-of-the-art 2D hydraulic model combined with hydrological models of varying complexity. I regularly disseminate the findings from my research/projects through presentations at international conferences and by publishing articles in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. I obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA, in May 2012 under the direction of Prof. Marcelo H. Garcia. My undergraduate and postgraduate degrees were also in Civil Engineering and were acquired from Nagpur University, India (2001) and Mississippi State University, USA (2005), respectively. Between 2005 and 2007, I worked with Prof. George Constantinescu and Prof. Larry Weber as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Iowa on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) project for thermal modelling of reservoir and its impact on fish passage. My PhD thesis focused on 3D hydrodynamic and water quality modelling of the Chicago Area Waterway System. After my PhD, I worked as a research scientist with Prof. Michael Rode at Helmholtz Environmental Research Centre (in Germany) on catchment-wide simulation of water quantity and quality variables. Since coming to the UK in 2014, I have held two postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) positions, first with Prof. Richard Hardy (Durham University, 2014-2016) and then with Prof. Andrew Wade (University of Reading, 2016-2017). At Durham, I examined the impact of bedforms on ambient flow conditions using simulation techniques based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). At Reading, I worked on connecting a fully distributed surface hydrological model with a groundwater model and conducted a simulation on a chalk-dominated catchment in the south of England. In June 2017, I accepted a Senior Research Fellowship in the School of Earth and Environment (SEE) at the University of Leeds (UoL). I started working with Prof. Andrew Challinor. At UoL, my research focussed on incorporating nutrient transport and turnover routines in the General Large Area Model (GLAM) for annual crops and examined the impact of nutrient stress on crop yield and sub-surface water quality.
Career Type:
Practitioner/Engineers
Organization Type:
Companies and Enterprises
Expertise Fields/Interests:
Fluvial Hydraulics, Water Resource Management, Flood Modelling, Groundwater Modelling and Water Quality Modelling.
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