Georges Kesserwani completed his PhD in fluid mechanics at the University of Strasbourg (2005-2008). He went on to a three-year research post in flood modeling at Newcastle University (2008–2011) and joined the Department in 2011. He was awarded a DAAD Visiting Fellowship to RWTH Aachen (2013–2014) and has been an EPSRC Fellow, holding a prestigious Early Career Fellowship (2018–2024). His research has aimed to forge new ties between the disciplines of water engineering, flood risk modeling, mathematics, and software science, with a vision to deliver new thinking and methods that help improve our ability to predict and prepare against flooding processes in an ever-changing climate.