Helmut Habersack

Career

• 2023 President of the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Intergovermental Hydrological Programme IHP
• 2022 President of the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER)
• 2022 President of the Geo/Hydro-Science National Committee of UNESCO
• 2019 Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research
• 2018 President of the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Basin (CHR)
• 2016 - 2022 Vice President of the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER)
• 2016 - 2018 UNESCO IHP Vice President of Intergovernmental Council
• 2015 Visiting Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2014 UNESCO Chair on Integrated River Research and Management
• 2011 Full Professor for Hydraulic Engineering and Modelling
• 2011 - 2019 Head of the Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
• 2010 - 2017 Head of Christian Doppler Laboratory for Advanced Methods in River Monitoring, Modelling and Engineering. http://cdlabor-imfluss.boku.ac.at/
• 2009 Visiting Professor at the UC Berkeley / USA and University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory / USA
• 2003 Research visit in Canada
• 2001 Associate Professor
• 2001 Habilitation
• 1998 - 1999 Sabbatical at the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
• 1997 Doctoral degree
• 1997 - 2001 Assistant Professor
• 1991 Diploma

Awards

• Year: 2023 Awards: "Österreicher des Jahres" in der Kategorie "Forschung" / "Austrian of the Year" in the category "Research"
• Year: 2021 Awards: Ehrendoktorat der Technischen und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Universität Budapest / Honorary Doctorate of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• Year: 2015 Awards: science2business Award 2015
• Year: 2013 Awards: Wissenschaftspreis des Landes Niederösterreich
• Year: 2002 Awards: Umweltpreise 2002 der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Umwelt und Technik (ÖGUT) im Bereich ökologischer Hochwasserschutz in der Kategorie vorsorgender Hochwasserschutz und der Kategorie vorbildliche Reaktion auf die HW-ereignisse 2002
• Year: 1998 Awards: Erwin Schrödinger Auslandsstipendium des Österreichischen Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
• Year: 1992 Awards: Umweltschutzpreis des Bezirkes Fürstenfeld
• Year: 1991 Awards: Preis der Prof. Julius Kar-Stiftung