B.S., Aristotle UniversityB.S.E., M.Sc., Ph.D., University of California, Davis.ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

·       Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan (1980-Date)·       Aristotle University, Greece.

·       Disaster prevention Agency of Korea.

·       University of Karlsruhe.

·       University of Hannover.

·       Delft Hydraulics Laboratory.

·       Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.

·       Storm and Flood Laboratory, National Disaster Prevention Agency, Japan.

·       Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation, Egypt.

·       National Institute of Hydraulics, Argentina.HONORS AND AWARDS:§  Monroe-Brown Foundation Education Excellence Award (2017).

§  ProQuest distinguished dissertation award for a directed Ph.D. thesis (2017).

§  Honorary Doctorate, University of Thessaly, Greece (2013).

§  Best Paper Award, 5th ASME Conference on Dynamic Systems and Control, Fort Lauderdale (2012).

§  Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Achievement Award (2010).

§  James A. Robbins Teaching Excellence Award, National Civil Engineering Honor Society (2009 &2001).

§  Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (2008).

§  Professor of the Year, ASCE student Chapter, Univ. of Michigan (2008).

§  Bernard S. Baker Award for a directed Ph.D. thesis (2008).

§  Chapter Honor Member, National Civil Engineering Honor Society (2002).

§  Best Research Paper Award, EWRI, American Society of Civil Engineers (2000).

§  College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award, University of Michigan (1999).

§  Lorenz G. Straub Award for a directed Ph.D. thesis (1999).

§  Alexander von Humboldt Award, Federal Republic of Germany (1997 & 1988).§  Outstanding Paper Award, 3rd ICHE, Berlin/Cottbus, Germany, (1998).§  College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, Univ. of Michigan (1994).§  Karl Emil Hilgard Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (1990).§  Fellow, Dutch Science Foundation (1988-89).§  Fellow, German Research Society (1987).§  Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1987).§  J.C. Stevens Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (1984).RECENT KEYNOTE LECTURES:

§  “Instability of Flow between Rotating Disks,” 11th CHAOS International Conference, Rome, Italy, 2018.

§  “Detection and Control of Hazardous Releases,” CREATE International Conference on Natural Disaster Prevention, Douliou, Taiwan, 2016.

§  “Impact of Climate Change on River Dynamics,” International Conference on Watershed Modeling and Environmental System Development, Nanjing, China, 2014.

• “Cyber-Enabled Scenarios of Extreme Events due to Climate Change,” 10th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, Orlando, Florida,
• “Source Inversion and Plume Control in Infrastructure Systems,” 40th Anniversary Symposium, Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, Kobe, Japan, 2008.
• “Control of Flow and Mixing in Environmental Flows,” 3nd Sino-American Symposium on Advanced Computational Modeling, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008.
• “Detectability, Assimilation and Controllability of Environmental Flows,” 7th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, Philadelphia, 2006.
• “Adaptive Control of Hydraulic Systems by Microsensor Arrays,” XXX Congress, International Association for Hydraulic Research, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

• Free-Surface Flow: Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128154892
• Free-Surface Flow: Shallow Water Dynamics, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128154878
• Free-Surface Flow: Computational Methods, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128154854

Journals Papers:

• Oscar Castro-Orgaz, , Hager, W.H. and Katopodes, N.D., "Variational Models for Nonhydrostatic Free-Surface Flow: A Unified Outlook to Maritime and Open-Channel Hydraulics Developments," Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2023, 149(7)
• Ivanov, V.Y., Xu, D., Dwelle, M.C., Sargsyan, K., Wright D.B., Katopodes, N., et al, "Breaking Down the Computational Barriers to Real-Time Urban Flood Forecasting," Geophysical Research Letters, 10.1029/2021
• Haria, , McCallum, J., Fujii, Y., Tsuchiya, T., Miyagawa, M., Nakamura, S., Wendel, M., Katopodes, N., "Characterization and Modeling of Wet Clutch Actuator for High-Fidelity Propulsion System Simulations," SAE Technical Paper, 2020-01-1414, 2020.
• Wang, , Katopodes, N. and Fujii, Y., "Two-Phase MRF Model for Wet Clutch Drag Simulation,"

SAE Int. J. Engines 10(3):2017

• Warnock, , Kim, J., Ivanov, V., and Katopodes, N., "Self-Adaptive Kinematic-Dynamic Model for Overland Flow," Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 140(2), 169-181, 2014.
• Manolidis, and Katopodes, N., "Bed Scouring During the Release of an Ice Jam," Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2, 370-385; April 2014.
• Kim, , Ivanov, V. and Katopodes, N.D., " Modeling erosion and sedimentation coupled with hydrological and overland flow processes at the watershed scale," Water Resources Research, Volume 49, Issue 9, pages 5134-5154, September 2013
• Kim, J, Warnock, A., Ivanov, V. and Katopodes, N.D., " Coupled modeling of hydrologic and hydrodynamic processes including overland and channel flow," Advances in Water Resources, 37, 104-126, 2012
• Katopodes, D., "Control of Sudden Releases in Channel Flow, Journal of Fluid Dynamics Research, Volume 41, Number 6, 2009.
• Sanders, F. and Katopodes, N.D., “Sensitivity Analysis of Shallow Water Flow by Adjoint Method,

Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2000, Vol. 126, No. 9, pp. 909-919.

• Sanders, F. and Katopodes, N.D., “Active Flood Hazard Mitigation. Part II: Omnidirectional Wave Control,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 1999, Vol. 125, No. 10, pp. 1071-1083.
• Bradford, S. and Katopodes, N.D., “Hydrodynamics of Turbid Underflows. Part II: Aggradation, Avulsion and Channelization," Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, October 1999, Vol. 125, No 10, pp. 1016-1028.

Piasecki, M. and Katopodes, N.D., “Control of Contaminant Releases in Rivers and Estuaries. Part II: Optimal Design” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 1997, Vol. 123, No. 6, pp. 493-503