About Professor Hubert Chanson

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Hubert Chanson received a degree of 'Ingénieur Hydraulicien' from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Hydraulique et de Mécanique de Grenoble (France) in 1983 and a degree of 'Ingénieur Génie Atomique' from the 'Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires' in 1984. He worked for the industry in France as a R&D engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission from 1984 to 1986, and as a computer professional in fluid mechanics for Thomson-CSF between 1989 and 1990. From 1986 to 1988, he studied at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) as part of a Ph.D. project.

Hubert Chanson is a Professor in Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests include design of hydraulic structures, experimental investigations of two-phase flows, applied hydrodynamics, hydraulic engineering, water quality modelling, environmental fluid mechanics, and natural resources. He has been an active consultant for both governmental agencies and private organisations. His publication record includes over 1,250 international refereed papers and his work was cited over 6,500 times (WoS) to 22,500 times (Google Scholar) since 1990. Hubert Chanson is the author of several books : "Hydraulic Design of Stepped Cascades, Channels, Weirs and Spillways" (Pergamon, 1995), "Air Bubble Entrainment in Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows" (Academic Press, 1997), "The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow : An Introduction" (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1st edition 1999, 2nd editon 2004), "The Hydraulics of Stepped Chutes and Spillways" (Balkema, 2001), "Environmental Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows" (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004), "Applied Hydrodynamics: An Introduction to Ideal and Real Fluid Flows" (CRC Press, 2009), "Tidal Bores, Aegir, Eagre, Mascaret, Pororoca: Theory And Observations" (World Scientific, 2011), "Applied Hydrodynamics: An Introduction" (CRC Press, 2014). He co-authored a few further books "Fluid Mechanics for Ecologists" (IPC Press, 2002),  "Fluid Mechanics for Ecologists. Student Edition" (IPC, 2006), "Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters" (CRC Press, 2021). His textbook "The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows : An Introduction" has already been translated into Spanish (McGraw-Hill Interamericana) and Chinese (Hydrology Bureau of Yellow River Conservancy Committee), and the second edition was published in 2004. In 2003, the IAHR presented him with the 13th Arthur Ippen Award for outstanding achievements in hydraulic engineering. The American Society of Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute (ASCE-EWRI) presented him with the 2004 award for the Best Practice paper in the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering ("Energy Dissipation and Air Entrainment in Stepped Storm Waterway" by Chanson and Toombes 2002), the 2018 Honorable Mention Paper Award for  "Minimum Specific Energy and Transcritical Flow in Unsteady Open-Channel Flow" by Castro-Orgaz and Chanson (2016) in the ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, and the 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) presented him the 2018 Baker Medal. In 2018, he was inducted a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. Hubert Chanson edited further several books : "Fluvial, Environmental and Coastal Developments in Hydraulic Engineering" (Mossa, Yasuda & Chanson 2004, Balkema), "Hydraulics. The Next Wave" (Chanson & Macintosh 2004, Engineers Australia), "Hydraulic Structures: a Challenge to Engineers and Researchers" (Matos & Chanson 2006, The University of Queensland), "Experiences and Challenges in Sewers: Measurements and Hydrodynamics" (Larrate & Chanson 2008, The University of Queensland), "Hydraulic Structures: Useful Water Harvesting Systems or Relics?" (Janssen & Chanson 2010, The University of Queensland), "Balance and Uncertainty: Water in a Changing World" (Valentine et al. 2011, Engineers Australia), "Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes" (Chanson and Toombes 2014, The University of Queensland). Hubert Chanson has been active also as consultant for both governmental agencies and private organisations.

The International Association for Hydraulic engineering and Research (IAHR) presented Hubert Chanson the 13th Arthur Ippen award in 2003 for outstanding achievements in hydraulic engineering. This award is regarded as the highest achievement in hydraulic research. The American Society of Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute (ASCE-EWRI) presented him with the 2004 award for the best practice paper in the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering ("Energy Dissipation and Air Entrainment in Stepped Storm Waterway" by Chanson and Toombes 2002). In 1999 he was awarded a Doctor of Engineering from the University of Queensland for outstanding research achievements in gas-liquid bubbly flows.

He has been awarded seven fellowships from the Australian Academy of Science. In 1995 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan R.O.C.). He was Visiting Research Fellow at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) in 1999, 2001 and 2008. In 2004, he was a Visiting Professorial Fellow at Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France), and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (France) and at McGill University (Canada). In 2008 and 2010, he was an invited Professor at the Université de Bordeaux, Laboratoire des Transferts,  Ecoulements, Fluides, et Energetique. In 2013, he was an invited fellow at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL (Switzerland)

Hubert Chanson was invited to deliver keynote lectures at the 1998 ASME Fluids Engineering Symposium on Flow Aeration (Washington DC), at the Workshop on Flow Characteristics around Hydraulic Structures (Nihon University, Japan 1998), at the first International Conference of the International Federation for Environmental Management System IFEMS'01 (Tsurugi, Japan 2001), at the 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering (Isfahan, Iran 2003), at the 2003 IAHR Biennial Congress (Thessaloniki, Greece), at the International Conference on Hydraulic Design of Dams and River Structures HDRS'04 (Tehran, Iran 2004), at the 9th International Symposium on River Sedimentation ISRS04 (Yichang, China 2004), at the International Junior Researcher and Engineer Workshop on Hydraulic Structures IJREW'06 (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal 2006), at the 2nd International Conference on Estuaries & Coasts ICEC-2006 (Guangzhou, China 2006), at the 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference 16AFMC (Gold Coast, Australia 2007), at the 2008 ASCE-EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress (Hawaii, USA 2008), the 2nd International Junior Researcher and Engineer Workshop on Hydraulic Structures IJREW'08 (Pisa, Italy 2008), at the 11th Congrès Francophone des Techniques Laser CTFL 2008 (poitiers, France 2008), International Workshop on Environmental Hydraulics IWEH09 (Valencia, Spain 2009), 17th Congress of IAHR Asia and Pacific Division (Auckland, New Zealand 2010), International Symposium on Water and City in Kanazawa - Tradition, Culture and Climate (Japan 2010), 2nd International Conference on Coastal Zone Engineering and Management (Arabian Coast 2010) (Oman 2010), NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) Workshop on “Modelling of Flood Hazards and Geomorphic Impacts of Levee Breach and Dam Failure" (Auckland, NZ 2012), Dam Design & Construction Summit (Brisbane, Australia 2013), 2nd International Workshop on Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs - PKW 2013 (Paris, France 2013). He gave invited lectures at the International Workshop on Hydraulics of Stepped Spillways (ETH-Zürich, 2000), at the 2001 IAHR Biennial Congress (Beijing, China), at the International Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Hydraulic Engineering (Bari, Italy 2004), at the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories Open Access Forum (Brisbane, Australia 2008), Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories Open Access Forum (Brisbane, Australia 2008), 4th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures (Porto, Portugal 2012). 35th IAHR World Congress (Chengdu, China 2013), Workshop on Acoustic Tomography and its Applications (Hiroshima, Japan 2014), 2nd International Workshop on the Application of Fluid Mechanics to Disaster Reduction (Japan, 2015), IUTAM Symposium on Bubbly Flows (Mexico, 2015), 38th IAHR World Congress (Panama, 2019), virtual International Conference on Coastal Engineeirng vICCE2020 (2020), 2nd International Symposium of Water Disaster Mitigation and Water Environment Regulation (China, 2021)... He lectured several short courses and workshops in Australia and overseas (e.g. Taiwan, Japan, Italy, USA, China).

Hubert CHANSON chaired the Organisation of the 34th IAHR World Congress held in Brisbane, Australia in June 2011. The event jointly organised by Engineers Australia and IAHR attracted over 820 participants from 45 countries. The congress proceedings papers were peer-reviewed thoroughly and a total of 587 papers were published in the proceedings out of 840 full paper submissions and 1,400 abstract submissions. He chaired the Scientific Committee of the 5th IAHR International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures to be held in Brisbane in June 2014. He chaired the Organisation of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference held as a hybrid format in Brisbane, Australia on 6-10 December 2020.

His Internet home page is http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans. He also developed a gallery of photographs website {http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/photo.html}and he prepared further several technical Internet resources accessible from {http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/url_menu.html}. Most of his research publications may be downloaded from UQeSpace at {http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/list/author_id/193/}.


ORCID: {http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2016-9650}
ResearcherID: {http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1194-2008}
Scopus Author ID: 7004495961
Google Scholar citations of Hubert CHANSON's works: {http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=3Mx-6g0AAAAJ&hl=en}

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Awards of Professor Hubert Chanson {http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/award.html}
Publications of Professor Hubert Chanson{http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/publica.html}
Free reprints of research papers in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Engineering and Water Sciences. (Format : *.PDF, *.DOC and *.ZIP.)
{http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/list/author_id/193/} at the open access repository UQeSpace.
Internet resources in Hydraulic Engineering {http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/url_menu.html}
Teaching of Professor Hubert Chanson {http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/teaching.html}
 

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