Professor Murugesu Sivapalan

Education

B. Sc. Eng. (Hons), Civil Engineering, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka                             1975

M. Eng., Water Resources Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand               1977

M. A., Civil Engineering (major in Hydrology), Princeton University                                                        1983

Ph.D., Civil Engineering (major in Hydrology), Princeton University                                                        1986

Prizes, Awards and Honours

Centenary Medal, Commonwealth Government of Australia                                                                     2003

John Dalton Medal, European Geophysical Society                                                                                    2003

Fellow, American Geophysical Union                                                                                                             2003–present

Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering                                              2001–present

Fellow, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand                                             2001–present

Biennial Medal (Natural Systems): Modelling and Simulation Society of                                              2001
 Australia and New Zealand

Fellow, The International Water Academy, Oslo, Norway                                                                           2000–present

Chair, Science Steering Group, IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins                           2002–2005

International Association of Hydrological Sciences

 

Employment

From July 1, 2005                                                  Professor of Hydrology and Environmental Engineering

(joint appointment)                                              Departments of Geography and Civil & Environmental

                                                                                Engineering,  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

November 23, 1999 – June 30, 2005                   Professor of Environmental Engineering

                                                                                Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia

June 1, 2001 – July 15, 2001                                Visiting Professor

(on study leave)                                                   Technical University of Vienna, Austria

December 1, 2000 – May 31, 2001                      Visiting Professor

(on study leave)                                                   Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

June 1, 1996 – June 30, 1997                               Head, Department of Environmental Engineering

                                                                                Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia

July 15, 1995 – February 10, 1996                      Visiting Professor/Lise Meitner Fellow

(on study leave)                                                   Institute of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Water Resources

                                                                                Technical University of Vienna, Austria

September 1, 1988 – November 22, 1999   Lecturer, Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor of

                                                                                Environmental Engineering

                                                                                Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia

July 1, 1986 to August 31, 1988                         Research Associate/Research Staff Member

                                                                                Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research

                                                                                Princeton University

March 1978 – June 1981                                      Civil Engineer/Senior Consultant

                                                                                Rocks & Stones (Nig) Ltd., Ibadan, Nigeria

August 1975  December 1977                         Graduate Student/Research Associate

                                                                                Division of Water Resources Engineering

                                                                                Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

February 1975 – August 1975                            Instructor in Civil Engineering

                                                                                University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya