Training Course Presenters

Dr Jon Wicks (BSc, PhD, CEng, MICE)

Jon is the ISIS Director and a chartered civil engineer with over twenty years experience in mathematical modelling of catchment systems, pipe networks and sediment transport. Jon has wide experience in water resources projects particularly flood risk management, river modelling, flood forecasting, hydrology, groundwater, pipe networks, irrigation and sediment studies. His particular expertise is in software development within the water resources discipline and he has project managed the development of many successful decision support products including ISIS and the MDSF.

Dr Konrad Adams (BSc, MSc, PhD)

Konrad has a PhD in mathematical methods from the University of Nottingham and has almost 20 years of writing scientific software programs. For the last twelve years, Konrad has been at Halcrow, where he has worked primarily as software developer for both the ISIS computational engine and the graphical user interface and also providing specialist technical support. He is now the lead software developer for ISIS and has gained an almost unparalleled knowledge of the product.

Robert Berry (MEng, CEng, MCIWEM)

Rob is a chartered senior flood risk management (FRM) engineer with 8 years experience working on FRM projects for the Environment Agency, Office of Public Works (OPW) in Ireland and local government. He has a wide range of knowledge in the construction (and management of the build) of numerical models for use in FRM. He is experienced in both 1D and 2D hydraulic modelling using ISIS, InfoWorksRS, HEC-RAS and TUFLOW.

Robert Bird (BSc, MSc)

Robert is a hydrologist with experience in hydrological modelling and studies including flood risk assessments, flood forecast modelling, strategic flood mitigation, flood estimation, flood mapping, continuous simulation modelling, rainfall-runoff modelling, rainfall simulation and low flow studies. Robert is a proficient user of ArcView GIS, ISIS, Microsoft Excel, FORTRAN, Matlab, AquilaDSF, GLIMCLIM.

Damian Debski (BA, MSc, CEng, MCIWEM)

Damian has worked on and project managed a wide range of UK and overseas projects. He has great knowledge of ISIS and has been running the ISIS training courses for the last 9 years. Damian has 15 years experience in physical and mathematical modelling and field investigations on a variety of hydraulic and environmental projects including river flood modelling, modelling of water supply systems, control systems, water treatment works and surge analysis.

Celine Gallay (MEng, CEng, MICE)

Celine is a water resources engineer with more than 12 years experience in the fields of water resources planning and river engineering. Celine has worked on a range of projects including detailed hydrological studies both for low and high flows, hydraulic modelling using ISIS Professional (1D) and ISIS 2D, flood alleviation schemes and river restoration projects.

Habtom Gebre (BSc, MSc)

Habtom is a Hydraulic Modeller with over 6 years experience in water resource modelling. Habtom is highly skilled in both one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) modelling software including ISIS Professional, ISIS 2D and TUFLOW, feasibilty studies and project managment issues. Habtom also has experience in groundwater modelling and design of structures. He is familiar with GIS packages including ArcView, Mapinfo, Vertical Mapper and AutoCAD.

Adam Parkes (BSc, MRes)

Adam has vast consultancy experience having worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from small site specific flood risk assessments in ungauged catchments through to very large scale flood risk mapping and flood alleviation projects requiring utilisation of large amounts of observed and gauged data. Adam has a wealth of experience in using other hydrological methodologies (IoH 124, IoH 108, ADAS 345, FSR, FSSR, Archer, Wallingford Rational, etc) for catchments and analyses where FEH is not appropriate, such as small catchments, low flows, urban areas and reservoir safety application.

Saber Razmjooei (BSc, MSc)

Saber has a broad knowledge of hydraulic modelling and river engineering. He is specialized in working with river modelling software packages including: ISIS, Mike11, HEC-RAS and TUFLOW and has extensive experience in GIS and CAD. Saber has managed and provided specialist input in 1D and 2D river modelling work in more than twenty flood risk assessments and flood risk management projects. Particular areas of expertise include modelling, flood risk assessments, flood risk management strategies and flood mapping.

Matthew Scott (BSc, PGDip, MPhil, MCIWEM)

Matthew is a hydrologist and has been involved in numerous hydrological studies, GIS/software development, water resource and flood risk management projects. Matthew has over 15 years professional experience in Hydrology, Water Resource Modelling and GIS and Software Development, supported by a BSc in Environmental Science and post-graduate qualifications in Geographical Information Systems, Water Resources and Social Science. Matthew has recently project managed both NEECA and SFRM framework projects, including the 'ESPACE Decision Testing Tool', 'River Lee Hydrology, Modelling and Mapping' and 'NaFRA 2007 Development' projects.

Peter Wells (BEng)

Peter is an engineer with 7 years experience, specialising in hydraulic modelling and software development. Peter plays an active role in the ISIS Professional (1D) and ISIS 2D development team, specialising in software optimisation and parallelisation. He has an excellent understanding of hydraulics and has vast experience with ISIS Professional (1D), ISIS 2D and TUFLOW. 

Konstantin Vasilyev (BSc, MSc)

Konstantin works alongside the ISIS Support and Software Development Team. He has been involved in system analysis of potential functions for ISIS Mapper and other various software development tasks. Konstantin has experience in computational hydraulic/hydrological modelling (Mike 11, Mike She, ISIS, Shetran, NOAH 1D, Topcat), geographic information systems and visualization tools (ISIS Mapper, Delta Mapper II, ArcView, ArcGIS) and in application development tools (Visual Basic, Java, C++, XML, HTML, FoxPro, Access, SQL).