About

Amgad Omer is a civil engineer with more than 20 years of experience in rivers and reservoirs. He is specialized in geotechnical and hydraulic engineering and water resources. He is presently leading a team developing a meta-morphological model of Jamuna River to introduce an adaptive river training and management approach at the Old Brahmaputra River offtake in the Joint cooperation program (JCP) between Bangladesh and the Netherlands. Apart from his role is coordinating the Knowledge sharing program (JCP-KSP) and capacity building package. Amgad is also involved as a team leader of the numerical modelling work package in the final evaluation of the Waal River longitudinal walls pilot project, as a future intervention measure (instead of groynes) in the Netherlands, to improve river navigation and sustainable water transport. Amgad has respectable experience in the field of river morphology, sediment transport, river management and river hydraulic structures. He carried out advisory work for several large rivers such as the Danube (Romania), Rhine (the Netherlands), Blue Nile (Sudan), Atbara (Sudan), Niger (Mali), Tenryuu (Japan), Jamuna (Bangladesh), Old Brahmaputra (Bangladesh), Uruguay (Uruguay and Argentina), Mekong (Laos), Marsyangdi (Nepal), Koshi (Nepal) and Yamuna (India). Amgad Omer is the project manager of sediment management in rivers with reservoirs. He is conducting research in the field of reservoir sedimentation and sediment management in rivers. His focus is to improve the numerical modelling to mimic, the different and detailed components of hydraulics structures and intervention measures. He carried out advisory works in many reservoirs and hydropower dams. In these projects, he did not just address the hydrology, hydraulics and morphology, but also their impacts on inland navigation, flood risk, ecology, Habitat, hydropower and irrigation. He started his career at the Irrigation Works Corporation-Sudan, in 2002, where he did irrigation water development. He has an MSc in Hydraulic engineering and river basin development from UNESCO - IHE, Delft, the Netherlands. He is regularly involved in supervision and guidance of academic and research scholars as well as in the capacity of exam committee member and reviewer of research scholars and students, e.g. IHE-Delft and Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands).

Career Type:

Practitioner/Engineers

Organization Type:

Research Institutes and Centers

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Fluvial hydraulics and geomorphology with a focus on river basins, reservoirs and water infrastructures; & Wadis flash floods

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