Dr. Ahmed Nasr
Lecturer
Email: ahmed.nasr@tudublin.ie
Tel: +353 1 220 6685
Dr. Nasr is a lecturer in water engineering at the School of Transport and Civil Engineering, TU Dublin, with over 20 years of research experience in various hydro-environmental applications. His expertise encompasses river catchment management, rainfall-runoff modelling, flood forecasting, water quality modelling, and statistical analysis of river flow data. Dr. Nasr has a strong track record of securing external research funding and supervising postgraduate students at both the masters and PhD levels.
Dr. Nasr has led numerous research projects, ranging from desk studies to large-scale collaborative projects with extensive research consortia. In his pioneering PhD study on environmental modelling, he applied three different deterministic catchment models for the first time to Irish catchments to simulate the transport and fate of diffuse phosphorus pollution from land to surface water bodies. As a postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Nasr conducted various studies on the application of AI systems in modelling catchment phosphorus transport. Additionally, he investigated climate change signals on the low flow regime of Irish rivers using a range of statistical indicators. Dr. Nasr was awarded the prestigious TU Dublin School of Civil Engineering short-stay sabbatical to conduct a research project on groundwater in collaboration with Prof. Eltahir Research Group at MIT.
Dr. Nasr has supervised several studies, including extensive assessments of the Irish river hydrometric network and the modelling of water resources systems in the River Liffey. Currently, he is leading a joint research project with European partners aimed at predicting harmful algal blooms in both inland and coastal waters. Furthermore, Dr. Nasr is supervising two additional studies: one on developing an integrated hydrological model using machine learning for flood forecasting, and another investigating the impact of climate change on groundwater levels.
Dr. Nasr regularly reviews for several renowned environmental engineering and hydrology journals. Additionally, he participated in organising the Dooge-Nash Conference, held in recognition of the contributions made by these two prominent Irish hydrologists.