ABSTRACT

Hafzullah Aksoy studied civil engineering with hydraulics and water resources as his ¤eld of expertise at Istanbul Technical University. He is a professor of hydrology and water resources at the same university. His research topics range from statistical hydrology to process-based modeling techniques for rainfall-runo§–sediment transport. He has been awarded with the 2006 Best Paper and 2009 Best Discussion Awards of the ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and the 2011 Engineering Incentive Award of the Scienti¤c and Technical Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He currently serves as the president of the International Commission on Surface Water (ICSW), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).