Witold Krajewski

Dr. Witold F. Krajewski is the Rose and Joseph Summers Chair of Water Resources Engineering at the University of Iowa.  He is Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Research Engineer at IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering. In 2009, he was appointed Director of the Iowa Flood Center. Dr. Krajewski received an M.S. (1976) and a Ph.D. (1980) from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, in environmental engineering and water resources systems. He was a Research Hydrologist at the Office of Hydrology of the National Weather Service until 1987, when he joined the University of Iowa. Dr. Krajewski’s scientific interests concern measuring, modeling, and forecasting precipitation using radar and satellite remote sensing. His current research focuses on understanding the genesis of floods through field experimentation and modeling, and the quantification of uncertainty in hydrologic prediction at a range of temporal and spatial scales. Dr. Krajewski has published more than 170 papers in refereed journals. He is Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Krajewski was Editor of Advances in Water Resources, and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.