Short Curriculum Vitae

Jorge Eduardo Leandro

Personal information

Name                      LEANDRO, JORGE EDUARDO TEIXEIRA

Address                   Wuppertal

Phone                      +49 (0234) 32 - 27619

E-mail                      Jorge.eduardo.leandro@gmail.com

Date of birth                            27TH JUNE 1977

Nationality                                PORTUGUESE

Work experience

Jorge Leandro is a Lecturer of hydraulics who from 2012 has been working as an Akademisch Rat (Lecturer) by the Hydrology, Water Resources Management and Environmental Engineering Chair at the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. In addition he is an invited Prof. at the University of Coimbra and a senior researcher at the Marine and Environmental Research Centre, Portugal. Jorge Leandro has a strong track record regarding the numerical modelling of urban drainage and hydraulic structures, publishing several key papers on the numerical modelling of urban flood events using coupled hydraulic models. Jorge Leandro currently led the Foundation for Science and Technology project “Experimental validation of the theoretical Multiple-Linking-Element (linkage-model) for improving integrated sewer/surface Urban Flood Models”, the Dual Drainage – Initiation of International Collaboration funded by DFG, and supervises three PhD students in numerical modelling with grants “"Development of a State of the Art Urban Flood Model (UFM)” SFRH/BD/81869/2011, “Numerical Modelling Advances in Urban Flooding” SFRH/PROTEC/67486/2010 and SFRH/BD/85783/2012. Previously to his academic career he has worked for five years as a Civil Engineer for two large Portuguese consultancy companies, namely COBA, SA and Engidro.

Education and training

Jorge Leandro did his PhD in Exeter University, UK on: “PhD Thesis: Advanced Modelling of Flooding in Urban Areas: Integrated 1D/1D and 1D/2D Models.” Under the supervision of Prof. Slobodan Djordjevic and Prof. Dragan Savic.

His undergrad degree (5 years Degree) and MSc thesis (2 years degree) were completed in IST-Lisbon. The MSc Thesis was on: “Enabling the MacCormack's original scheme to perform Dam-break flow by fitting a smoothed initial condition on a fixed non-uniform grid”, supervised by Prof. Helena Ramos.

Recent publications

Jorge Leandro is co-author of twenty International Journals listed in ISI and has published several International and national conferences. Next are a few selected publications, for a complete list check the following link: http://www1.ci.uc.pt/imar/unit/people/cvs/cv/j_leandro.php

1) Leandro, J., Chen, A. S., Djordjevic, S. and Dragan, S. (2009)" A comparison of 1D/1D and 1D/2D coupled hydraulic models for urban flood simulation" J. of Hydraul. Eng-ASCE, 135, 6 (1), 495-504.

2) Leandro, J., Djordjević, S., Chen, A. S., Savić, D. A., and Stanić, M. (2011). "Calibration of a 1D/1D urban flood model using 1D/2D model results in the absence of field data." Water Sci Technol, 64 (5) 1016–1024.

3) Leandro, J., Carvalho, R., Chachereau, Y., and Chanson, H. (2012) „Estimating void fraction in a hydraulic jump by measurements of pixel intensity“ Experiments in Fluids, 55 (5), 1307-1318.

4) Leandro, J., J. P. Leitão and J. L. M. P. de Lima (2013), “Quantifying the uncertainty in the SCS flood hydrographs: a case study in the Azores islands.” Journal of Flood Risk Management, 6 (3), 279-288. (JFRM Outstanding Paper Award supported by The JBA Trust – commended paper).

5) Leandro, J. (2014). Title of Special Issue: Towards more Flood Resilient Cities. Urban Water Journal (Editorial), 12 (1), 1-2.

6) Leandro, J., Chen, A.S., Schumann, A., (2014). A 2D parallel diffusive wave model for floodplain inundation with variable time step (P-DWave). J. Hydrol. - Elsevier, 517, 250–259.

7) Martins R., Leandro J. and Djordjević S. (2015) A well balanced Roe scheme for the local inertial equations with an unstructured mesh, Advances in Water Resources, 83, 351-363.

Awards/Recognitions

During his PhD he was recognized with two awards (one UK national and one International), namely the 2006 - “Young Persons Papers Competition” organized by the UK section of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research – IAHR, and the 2008 – selected for the international award “The Poul Harremoës Award for Best Urban Drainage Paper by a Young Author” organized by the Joint Committee on Urban Drainage, in cooperation with the International Water Association, presented at the 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD). In 2014 his article “Quantifying the uncertainty in the SCS flood hydrographs: a case study in the Azores islands” was commended for the Journal of Flood Risk Management Outstanding Paper Award supported by The JBA Trust.

Thesis Supervision

Jorge Leandro currently supervises two PhD and two MSc students in Urban Flooding. He has already completed the supervision of one PhD, eight MSc and three BSc students.

Mother Tongue/ Other Languages

Jorge Leandro’s mother tongue is Portuguese and he is proficient speaker in English and German, and has regular knowledge of French and Spanish.

Informatics skills

FORTRAN, MATLAB, BASIC, PYTHON, PARAVIEW, OPENFOAM, TEC-PLOT, AUTOCAD, MICROSTATION, INROADS, LATEX, HECs, SWMM, DELFT3D-FLOW, 3DNet.