River Sedimentation

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Silke Ursula Wieprecht is a professor at the Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems of the University of Stuttgart. She received her university degree in civil engineering from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and earned her PhD degree from the University of Federal Armed Forces in Munich. She wrote her PhD thesis on sediment transport problems, especially the formation of bed forms. After three years working as a consultant engineer and three years as the head of the subject group of river morphology at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology, she became Professor at the University of Stuttgart, Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management in 2003.
Her research interests include river mechanics and the interconnection with ecology. She has broad practical experience in river restoration, morphology and sediment transport, which covers physical modelling as well as numerical modelling of fluvial and sedimentological processes. Her special interest is in the interaction between surface water and interstitial and its impact on habitats. In her research team work is performed on safety issues of hydraulic structures, hydropower use in large and small scale, flood protection and floodplain modelling as well as reservoir and sediment management.
Prof. Wieprecht is an active member of numerous Technical and Expert Committees that formulate guidelines for the engineering practice (e.g. river engineering, sediment management in fluid systems. Furthermore, she is a council member of the International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), Deutsche Vereinigung fuer Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall e.V. (DWA), Deutsches Talsperren Komitee (DTK), and Hafenbautechnische Gesellschaft (HTG).