Meet the Director

Dr. Witold F. Krajewski is the Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering at The University of Iowa. He is also a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a research engineer at IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering. In 2009, he was appointed director of the Iowa Flood Center. 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.

Krajewski’s scientific interests concern multiple aspects of rainfall measuring, modeling, forecasting, and estimation, using radar and satellite remote sensing. His current research focuses on understanding the genesis of floods through field experimentation and modeling, and quantification of uncertainty in hydrologic prediction at a range of temporal and spatial scales. He has published more than 140 papers in refereed journals.

Krajewski is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He has served on numerous committees and panels for professional organizations, and editorial boards of several journals. He is an editor of Advances in Water Resources.