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Anton Schleiss
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GCA3514
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 32382,32805,32385
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BIOGRAPHY
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Prof. Dr. Anton J. Schleiss graduated in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1978. After joining the Laboratory of Hydraulic, Hydrology and Glaciology at ETH as a research associate and senior assistant, he obtained a Doctorate of Technical Sciences on the subject of pressure tunnel design in 1986. After that he worked for 11 years for Electrowatt Engineering Ltd. and was involved in the design of many hydropower projects around the world as an expert on hydraulic engineering and underground waterways. Until 1996 he was Head of the Hydraulic Structures Section in the Hydropower Department at Electrowatt. In 1997 he was nominated full professor and became Director of the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH) in the Civil Engineering Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). The LCH activities comprise education, research and services in the field of both applied hydraulics and design of hydraulic structures and schemes. The research studies and expertise involve both numerical and physical modeling. Actually 14 Ph.D. projects are ongoing at LCH under his guidance. Prof. Schleiss was also Director of the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Water Resources Management and Engineering held in Lausanne in collaboration with ETH Zurich and the universities of Innsbruck (Austria), Munich (Germany), Grenoble (France) and Liège (Belgium) from 1999 to 2009. He is also involved as international expert in several dam and hydropower plant projects all over the world as well as flood protection projects mainly in Switzerland. Since April 2006 he is director of the Civil Engineering Department of EPFL. His is chairman of the Swiss Committee of Dams and former chairman of the Swiss Committee of Flood Protection.
Further details on the activities of the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH) including publication lists as well as a detailed CV can be found under http://lchwww.epfl.ch.
Awards:
ASCE Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Price 2006
ASCE J. C. Stevens Award 2006
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Full Professor