Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management

About Slobodan P. Simonovi

Slobodan P. Simonovi has over thirty years of research teaching and consulting experience in water resources engineering and has received a number of awards for excellence in teaching research and outreach. Most of his research is being conducted through the Facility for Intelligent Decision Support (FIDS) at the University of Western Ontario where he is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Engineering Studies with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. His primary research focus is on the application of systems approach to and development of the decision support tools for management of complex water and environmental systems and the integration of risk reliability uncertainty simulation and optimization in hydrology and water resources management. Dr Simonovi teaches courses in civil engineering and water resources systems plays an active role in national and international professional organizations and has been invited to present special courses for practising water resources engineers in many countries. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Flood Risk Management and Water Resources Management and has published over 350 articles and two major textbooks.