Professor Zoran Kapelan
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Prof. Zoran Kapelan is a Professor in the Centre for Water Systems at the
Eduation and Professional Experience
Prof. Zoran Kapelan graduated at the University of Belgrade (Faculty of Civil Engineering) in 1989 as the best student in his class (95% GPA). He obtained his PhD in Engineering at the University of Exeter in 2002. Prior to joining the University of Exeter he worked for 10 years as a consultant in the water industry and was responsible for the design of various complex water engineering systems, including water and wastewater infrastructure systems, flood/river control systems, irrigation/drainage systems and systems of large open reservoirs with dams and hydro power plants. He received a number of awards.
Research Interests
- Real-time control of water infrastructure systems under both normal and failing conditions;
- Integrated, life-cycle and risk based asset management of water supply and distribution systems including supply/demand analysis, leakage analysis, pressure/energy management, reliability/robustness issues, asset incident and deterioration modelling;
- Integrated, life-cycle and risk based asset management of wastewater systems;
- Risk and uncertainty based decision support systems for sustainable design and operation of urban water infrastructure systems in changing climate conditions, including various risk/uncertainty analyses, deterministic and stochastic optimisation methods, multi-criteria decision analyses and various data mining techniques;
- Hydraulic and water quality simulation modelling of pipe networks;
- Water system security, including contaminant detection and sensor network design;
- Calibration of water and wastewater models, including sampling design.
Teaching
