Dr. Serter Atabay is a Professor at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in the area of Water Resources Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, UK. Dr. Atabay has eight years of consulting experience with the UK's leading specialists in flood risk and environmental management as a senior hydrodynamic modeler and project manager. His research interests are river engineering, catchment flood management plans, overbank flow, strategic flood risk management, flood hydraulics, sediment mechanics, hydraulic structures at high flow, and environmental hydrology and modeling.