OUR TEAM
Dr.-Ing. Firas Aljanabi
Firas Aljanabi has a Ph.D. in water resources management and climate
change, a Master’s degree in Hydroscience Engineering focusing on flash floods nowcasting and early warning systems, and a solid background in civil engineering through his Bachelor studies.
During his 15+ years of professional career, he worked at national, regional, and international levels on technical assistance, flood risk management, early warning systems, water and data scarcity, and capacity building programs. He has contributed to policy formulation, research, program planning, as well as monitoring and evaluation.
Dr. Aljanabi has strong connections to different international organizations and research institutions and taught diverse hydrology and water resource management lectures.
Throughout his career, he has been working with the World Meteorology
Organization (WMO) on Basic Systems in Hydrology and the Climate and
Water Department, the Hydrological Cycle Observing System (HYCOS),the
Hydrological Forecasting and Water Resources (HFWR) and Basic Systems in Hydrology (BSH) divisions, the Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) and Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS). In 2019, he served as a hydrological expert on the Study Mission to Mozambique and in 2020, he delivered a training on advanced hydrological and hydraulic modeling for NHS staff in Myanmar.
Based in Germany, he has a wide experience in developing countries (mainly Middle East, especially Iraq, but also Asia and Africa), including water and wastewater infrastructure projects in Iraq.
Dr.-Ing. Mohammed Abdallah
Mohammed Abdallah has a strong academic background with a Postdoc,
PhD, MSc, BSc in civil engineering, hydrauluic and water resources
engineering in addition to more than 15 years of international experience in industry and research. He was also a university lecturer of river engineering, hydrosystem modelling, GIS and Geo Database as well as water resources planning and management.
During his career, he held many posts in academia, industry and government in different projects ranging from national to international level that focus on water resources engineering and management issues such as Hydraulics Research Station, Nile Basin Initiative, and WMO-World Hydrological Cycle Observing System (WHYCOS), Hydrodynamic Transport in Ecologically Critical Heterogeneous Interfaces project (HYTECH).
Based in Germany, he has a wide experience in developing countries (mainly Middle East and eastern Africa) in watershed planning and stakeholder management. He has been invited several times to work on these issues as a guest lecturer and ToT instructor.