INOWAS group leader Dr. Catalin Stefan has been nominated TUD Young Investigator.

Catalin Stefan studied at Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest. He has been working at TUD's Institute of Waste and Recycling Management since 2001. The focus of his work is on integrated water resources management, managed aquifer recharge and decision support systems for sustainable water management.

The latter is also the main focus of the INOWAS research group. It aims at providing a scientifically based decision support system for planning, design and management of applications in the water sector.
The focus lies on the development of an interactive web-based platform for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the managed groundwater reservoirs by means of scenario analysis, prognosis and risk assessment and with regard to the influencing climatic factors.