Staff Members CV

Adane Abebe (Dr-Ing) is an Associate Professor specialized in Hydrology and Water Resources management. He obtained his PhD (Magna cum laude) from Civil Engineering department, University of Siegen, Germany in January 2009. His dissertation was entitled: „Hydrological drought analysis: occurrence, severity, risks- the case of Wabi Shebele river basin, Ethiopia‟. He completed his MSc degree at International Institute of Hydraulic and environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft the Netherlands in March 2000. His MSc thesis was entitled: „Comparison of the hydrological models AQUA (Lumped) and STREAM (Distributed) model for the Zambezi river basin‟. He earned his B.Sc from Haramaya University in Agricultural Engineering in 1995. He obtained postgraduate certificate on: Irrigation Water resources in arid and semi-arid regions and EIA for sustainable development from Tottori University, Japan in November, 2002. He received a number of short term trainings. Among others in Dec. 2003: Regional Refresher seminar on “Modeling Support for management of Water Scarcity” Cairo, Egypt and in March (2010) Ethiopian Universities management program. North West University South Africa. He had worked at Zonal Water, Mines and Energy Resources Development Department in SNNPR before joining as a Lecturer at the former AWTI. Since July 2000 he has been working at Arba Minch University at different capacities (Department head, Faculty Dean of Water Technology Institute, Research and Publication Coordinator of the university, Executive Director of IOT). He has been engaged in research works of the Nile Basin Capacity Building Network and curriculum development of various academic programs. He is currently involved in consultancy of World bank funded mega water resources projects and contributed in the review of different river basin master plans of the country. He has been teaching various MSC and PhD courses at different universities in the country since 2011. He has supervised a number of MSc and PhD researches at Africa Center of Excellence in Water Management, Ethiopian Institute of Water resources, AAU; Haramaya Univerity and Arba Minch University. He has published a number of articles in international peer reviewed journals and book chapters. He presented research findings in a number of international conferences in USA, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Italy, China, South Africa and others.