People


Academic and research staff

Julien Harou
Group Lead and Professor in Water Engineering
Pariser Building – B37
0161 306 4589
julien.harou@manchester.ac.uk

Andrea Bottacin-Busolin
Lecturer in Water Engineering
Pariser Building – B15
0161 306 8970
andrea.bottacinbusolin@manchester.ac.uk

Tim Foster
Lecturer in Water-Food Security
Pariser Building – B14
0161 275 4411
timothy.foster@manchester.ac.uk

Robel Geressu
Research Associate
robel.geressu@manchester.ac.uk

Thomas Higginbottom
Research Associate
thomas.higginbottom@manchester.ac.uk

Anthony Hurford
Group Manager/Senior Project Engineer
anthony.hurford@manchester.ac.uk

Evgenii Matrosov
Research Fellow
evgenii.matrosov@manchester.ac.uk

Benjamin Parkes
Ekpe Research Fellow
ben.parkes@manchester.ac.uk

James Tomlinson
Research Fellow
james.tomlinson@manchester.ac.uk


Software developers

Stephen Knox
Lead software developer
stephen.knox@manchester.ac.uk

Giovanni Basolu
giovanni.basolu@manchester.ac.uk

Paul Slavin
paul.slavin@manchester.ac.uk


PhD researchers

Oluseun Adeluyi
Optimization of dry season rice production in Nigeria using remote sensing techniques.
oluwaseun.adeluyi@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Muhammad Aslami
SPH Modelling of debris in shallow water flows.
muhammad.aslami@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Mohammed Basheer
Hydro-economic analysis and the Nile.
mohammed.basheer@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Nirman Bhagat
Uncertainty in hydrological models for flood forecasting.
nirman.bhagat@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Mikiyas Etichia
Water-energy planning in East Africa.
mikiyas.etichia@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Jose Gonzalez Cabrera
Hydropower planning and management to support renewable energy.
jose.gcabrera@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Thomas Kelly
Intelligent irrigation management using machine learning, sensors, and crop models.
thomas.kelly-11@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Muhammad Azri Bin Mohd Amir
Simulation-based optimisation of urban drainage systems.
muhammadazri.mohdamir@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Sarah Redicker
Impacts of dams on agricultural productivity and livelihoods.
sarah.redicker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Philip Selby
Agricultural water management in Jordan via national scale multi-agent system modelling.
philip.selby@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Omid Seyedashraf
Model-assisted decision-making for urban drainage infrastructure management and investment planning.
omid.seyedashraf@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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