Amir AghaKouchak is a Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He also serves as director of UC Irvine’s Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS), where his team develops innovative tools for monitoring and modeling hydrologic extremes. His research focuses on natural hazards and climate extremes, bridging the disciplines of hydrology, climatology and remote sensing. A central theme of his work is the study of interactions among climatic and nonclimatic hazards, particularly compound and cascading events. Professor AghaKouchak has published over 270 peer-reviewed journal articles and has received numerous honors, including the AGU James B. Macelwane Medal, AGU Fellow, ASCE Fellow, EWRI Fellow, ASCE Norman Medal, AMS Robert E. Horton Lecturer in Hydrology, and ASCE Huber Research Prize.

Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2010
M.Sc., Civil Engineering (Major: Water Resources), K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, 2005
B.Sc., Civil Engineering (Major: Water Resources), K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, 2001

Hydrology, climatology, remote sensing of environment, climate extremes, water-energy nexus, climate change, stochastic modeling, water resources management