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Garrick Aden-Buie
Research Assistant
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Garrick Aden-Buie is a research assistant at the Patel School of Global Sustainability and a doctoral student in the Industrial and Management Sciences Engineering Department at the University of South Florida. He received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and a B.A. in Spanish from Lehigh University. His research interests include dynamic systems modeling in urban environments and optimization of urban systems for sustainability. Prior to joining PSGS, he taught math and life skills to Ecuadorian youth as an urban youth and families Peace Corps volunteer.
James Buckingham
Research Fellow
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James Buckingham is a research fellow at the Patel School of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida. He received his MCE from the University of South Florida with a concentration in Water Resources Engineering, and his BS in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University. His research interests include integrated urban management and the metabolism of sustainable urban environments. He is developing his dissertation on urban metabolism modeling and management under the supervision of Prof. Kala Vairavamoorthy. Prior to joining PSGS, James has participated in research examining self-supply drinking water technologies and worked as a hydrologist at a public water supply utility.
Jochen Eckart
Research Fellow
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Jochen Eckart is research fellow at the newly founded School of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida. He is doing interdisciplinary research in the field of sustainable and resilient cities as well as the integration of spatial planning and infrastructure management. Furthermore he is doing a doctorate with the topic ‘Flexible urban drainage systems’ with Prof. Kala Vairavamoorthy as his supervisor. He has a master degree in Spatial and Environmental Planning at the University of Kaiserslautern. From 2006 to 2009 he worked at the HafenCity University Hamburg. He was project manager of the work package ‘Water Sensitive Urban Design’ within the research project ‘SWITCH Managing Water for the City of the Future’. His research was mainly about the combination of urban planning and water management. Prior he worked three years as team leader for urban and traffic planning in a private consultant office.
Kebreab Ghebremichael
Senior Research Fellow
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Dr. Ghebremichael is a senior research fellow at the Patel School of Global Sustainability. He is a civil engineer with a focus on sustainable and low cost water treatment systems (indigenous and bio-processes). He received his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, his MSc from the University of New South Wales in Australia and BSc from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. Dr. Ghebremichael has worked as a senior lecturer at UNESCO-IHE in the Netherlands and the University of Asmara in Eritrea for more than 10 years both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has managed and coordinated several research, capacity development and consultancy projects.
Krishna Khatri
Research Fellow
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Krishna Khatri is a research fellow at the Patel School of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida. Mr Krishna, holds an MSc degree (2006) from UNESCO-IHE Delft, Netherlands, MPA degree (2001) from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and BE (1996) in Civil Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He is a doctoral candidate at “Risk and Uncertainty Analysis for Sustainable Urban Water Systems” at the Technical University of Delft, Netherland (PhD funded by UNESCO-IHE: SWITCH and Delft Cluster project). He has 9 years of work experiences on urban infrastructure systems planning, designing and implementation in Nepal with several government agencies, international consultants and donors (UNDP, UNICEF, ADB, WB, DFID, GTZ, JICA). Prior to joining the USF, he was an Honorary Research Associate (Sept 2007 to April 2011) in the Department of Civil Engineering, at the University of Birmingham, UK. His main areas of expertise and interest are urban water system modelling; sustainability, risk, uncertainty, climate change impacts and adaptation at a city scale.
Jotham Sempewo
Research Fellow
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Jotham Ivan Sempewo is Visiting Research Fellow at the Patel School of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida and a doctoral candidate in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK. His current research areas are Integrate Urban Water Management and sustainable urban infrastructure systems. The area of his PhD Research is Transitioning of Urban Water Systems. Jotham received an Msc in Municipal Water and Infrastructure from UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands and a Bsc Engineering Degree (Civil) from Makerere University Kampala. He has recently worked as a Research Associate at Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Loughborough University, UK and a graduate assistant at the University of Birmingham.
Seneshaw Tsegaye
Research Fellow
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Seneshaw Tsegaye is research fellow at the Patel School of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida. His current research areas are integrated urban water management as well as resilient and adaptive infrastructures. Furthermore, he is doing his doctorate on Flexible Urban Water Distribution Systems with Prof. Kala Vairavamoorthy as his supervisor. He received an M.Sc degree in Integrated Urban Engineering from UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands, and B.Sc in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Prior to joining the University of South Florida, he worked as a graduate assistant at University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and has been involved with multiple projects related to urban water management.