New Professor of Environmental Fluid Dynamics and Modeling appointed from January 2026

On January 1, 2026, Prof. Dr. Daniel Caviedes-Voullième will take over the Chair of Environmental Fluid Dynamics and Modeling (formerly Technical Hydromechanics) at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics in the Faculty of Civil Engineering. With his appointment, the Chair has gained an internationally experienced scientist with proven expertise in computer-aided hydrodynamics and hydrology.

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Prof. Caviedes-Voullième has held various research positions at renowned institutions since 2014, including at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Sheffield (UK), in the Numerical Hydraulics Group at LIFTEC and Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) and at the Chair of Hydrology at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. Since 2020, he has also headed the Simulation and Data Laboratory Terrestrial Systems at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

His core research areas are the development of robust mathematical and numerical modeling approaches for hydrodynamic and hydrological processes using high-performance computing. The aim is to provide powerful simulation technologies for a wide range of applications in environmental hydrodynamics - including urban and fluvial flood events, flash floods, the transport of pollutants, sediments and debris, and the integrated modeling of land surfaces, soils and ecosystems.

Prof. Caviedes-Voullième's work makes important contributions both to basic research in Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and to practical engineering applications. In particular, they open up new possibilities for the improved prediction of extreme flood events and the further development of early warning systems.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Daniel Caviedes-Voullième and look forward to future collaboration in research and teaching.