Anton Schleiss

Emeritus Professor and expert consultant at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland,

for his highly productive career as an authority on the design and performance of dams and hydropower facilities. 

Peter A. Davies

Emeritus Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the University of Dundee, UK,

for his outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics and hydraulics, and his service to IAHR. 

Teodoro Estrela

Director General for Water, Spain,

for his highly productive career in hydraulic  engineering and his leadership facilitating extensive support of IAHR’s operation.

Sebastien Erpicum

Associate Professor and Laboratory Head at the School of Engineering, Liege University, Belgium,

for his outstanding leading research regarding the hydraulics and fluid mechanics of hydraulic structures.                                

Íñigo J. Losada Rodríguez

Director of Research at the Environmental Hydraulics Institute (IHCantabria), Universidad de Cantabria, Spain,

for his significant and enduring contributions to the understanding of the physics of phenomena and processes in hydraulic science and engineering that have had a wide international impact on both applied engineering and policy making.

Christophe Ancey

Director of the Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland,

for the most outstanding paper Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism.

Published in the Journal of Hydraulic Research, issue 1, volume 58, 2020.

Special thanks from the Awards Committee to Mohamed Guidaoui, Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Research, and the Associated Editors of the Journal of Hydraulic Research.

Nadia Penna

Università della Calabria, Rende (CS), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Italy.

Juvenal Letelier

Universidad de Chile, Department of Civil Engineering, Chile.

Huan-Feng Duan

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR China.

For their outstanding reviews during the period 2019 – 2020.

IAHR Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute Young Professionals Network

The IAHR Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute Young Professionals Network is an academic organization composed of youth members. Formally established in Nanjing in May 2018 under the guidance of the IAHR China Chapter and the support of the Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute. Actively carries out various activities in order to improve the academic level and international vision of its members and promote young scholars to the international academic stage.

IAHR Spain Young Professionals Network

The IAHR Spain YPN was created in 2020 as a merger of the YPNs from three Spanish regions: South-East Spain, Madrid, and Galicia. The main objective is to foster a national collaboration network among young researcher and water professional, give visibility to events, scholarships and contracts offered interesting for the YPN members, and organize and disseminate talks, interviews and webinars at national and international level in the scope of water engineering.

IAHR Panama Young Professionals Network

The IAHR Panamá YPN was created in September 2019 by young researchers and students from the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá. The group has organized and has been very active promoting and organizing activities both locally in Panama and regionally in Latin America. The groups vision is to become a national reference in the field of hydro-environmental sciences for the design of sustainable solutions through a holistic and interdisciplinary approach.

Steve Brunton

Dr. Brunton’s research focuses on combining techniques in dimensionality reduction, sparse sensing, and machine learning for the data-driven discovery and control of complex dynamical systems. He is also interested in how low-rank coherent patterns that underlie high-dimensional data facilitate sparse measurements and optimal sensor and actuator placement for control. He is developing adaptive controllers in an equation-free context using machine learning. Specific applications in fluid dynamics include closed-loop turbulence control for mixing enhancement, bio-locomotion, and renewable energy. Other applications include neuroscience, medical data analysis, networked dynamical systems, and optical systems.