Prof Holger Maier
Holger Maier is Professor of Integrated Water Systems Engineering and Deputy Head of the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. Prior to joining the University in 1999, he worked as a consultant in the private and public sectors in South Australia, as a senior civil engineer with the Western Samoa Water Authority and as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia.
Holger's research is focussed on developing improved techniques for the sustainable management of water resources and infrastructure in an uncertain environment and includes elements of modelling, optimisation and multi criteria and uncertainty analysis. He has co-authored more than 10 book chapters and in excess of 100 refereed papers. He has received a number of national and international awards for his teaching and research.
Blog posts on Views & Visions
| Post | Date | Key Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Plenty of action on decision support | 11 Dec 2015 | modelling, scenario analysis |
Project leadership
What if an earthquake hit central Adelaide? A major flood on the Yarra River through Melbourne? A bushfire on the slopes of Mount Wellington over Hobart?
‘What if?’ scenario modelling through this project is helping government, planning authorities and emergency service agencies think through the costs and consequences of various options on preparing for major disasters on their infrastructure and natural environments and how these might change into the future.
The research is based on the premise that to reduce both the risk and cost of natural disasters, an integrated approach is needed to consider multiple hazards and a range of mitigation options.
Supervisory roles
Research team
| Type | Project | Research team |
|---|---|---|
| CRC Core Project | Urban planning for natural hazard mitigation | sdovers, hmaier, griddell, hvandelden, rbeilin, jstanley, lndemoraes |
