Dimitri Solomatine

Dimitri P. Solomatine received the engineering degree (equivalent to MSc) in Systems Engineering from the Moscow Aviation Institute (University) in 1979. In 1979-1990 he worked at the Institute for Systems Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, first as a junior researcher, and from 1986 as a senior researcher. He received the Ph.D. degree in Management and Systems Sciences in 1984.

At that time his main interests involved interactive structural modelling, machine learning, decision support systems and software engineering. He actively collaborated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria).

He was also involved in several national-wide projects of the State Committee of Science and Technology, and the Academy of Sciences. In 1988-89 he was a co-founder of a IT consultancy company IVK.

In 1989-90 he spent a year as a researcher in the Delft University of Technology.

Since March 1990 he is a staff member of the Hydroinformatics section of IHE-Delft (currently UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education).

His responsibilities include teaching of several courses, participation in the capacity building projects abroad and research. His research interests include hydroinformatics, information and communication technology, water resources modelling and management, multi-objective and global optimization, systems engineering, computational intelligence, decision support, uncertainty, knowledge management.

He has published 130+ papers, chpaters and conference proceedings, is a co-editor of several Special Issues of international journals. Reviewer for 10 international journals. Member of International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, International Society on Neural Networks (INNS), European Geosciences Union. Chairman of the sub-division on Hydroinformatics of the European Geosciences Union.