Biography
Prof. Vahid Nourani received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from University of
Tabriz, Iran in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He then continued his graduate study in Civil and
Environmental Engineering in the field of Hydrology at Shiraz University, Iran and Tohoku
University, Japan and was graduated in 2005. Prof. Nourani was with the Faculty of Civil
Engineering, University of Tabriz from 2005; with Department of Civil Engineering, University of
Minnesota, USA at 2011 as visiting Associate Professor and as Adjunct Professor with Near East
University (Cyprus) and Charles Darwin University (Australia) from 2017 and 2022, respectively. In
this period, 101 Ph.D. and M.S. students were graduated under his technical supervision.
His research interests include rainfall-runoff modeling, Artificial Intelligence applications to
hydro-environmental engineering, Hydroinformatics and computational hydraulics. His researches
outcomes have been published as 252 Journal articles, 2 books, 16 book chapters, more than 200
papers presented in international and national conferences and 7 international projects. Currently
he is Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Civil & Env. Eng. (Tabriz Univ.), Associate Editor for Journal
of Hydrology and AQUA (IWA), Guest Editor for several JCR Journals, and director of Excellence
Center in Hydroinformatics. In 2021, Prof. Nourani was ranked as 11035 among world’s top 2%
scientists reported by the Stanford University and in 2022 he was granted the PIFI’s professorial
fellowship of Chinese Academy of Science. He currently is a visiting professor in DPRI at Kyoto
University, Japan.
Prof. V. Nourani has an
impressive academic record with a Google Scholar H-index of 60 and 13,225 citations.
