Keynotes

Prof. Peter Steen Mikkelsen, the winner of the JCUD mid-career Award in 2014, is professor at the Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. He has a strong track record in research related to understanding, engineering and integrated management of urban water with emphasis on stormwater, pollution and flood control, modelling and risk assessment of dynamic systems, and the role of uncertainty in modelling and decision making. He will discuss key developments in urban drainage over de past decades and highlight future directions of the urban drainage field.

Wendy Francken is the president of the European Water Association and Vlario, the knowledge platform for urban water in Flanders. She will present her vision for the future of the management of urban runoff using the implications and challenges of the new European Directive as the main thread of the story.

Prof. Dr. David McCarthy, the winner of the Mid-Career Award of the previous edition of the ICUD and current chair of the JCUD, will reflect on the vital role that urban drainage managers have played in managing the COVID-19 pandamic through wastewater based epidimoligy. He will set out the future of WBE and will reflect on the potential of low-cost sensing.

Dr. Lena Mutzner is a group leader at the Urban Water Management department at EAWAG. She is on the forefront of research in quantifying emerging pollutants in urban stormwater and their dynamics in grey and blue-green infrastructure. In her keynote she will paint a picture of the rapidly evolving future of stormwater quality research.

Prof. Dr. Michael Templeton, Professor of Public Health Engineering at Imperial College London and the Oxfam and Water For People / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Global Sanitation Technology, has dedicated his research to ensuring sustainable sanitation and clean water in least-developed and lower-middle income countries where non-sewered sanitation is often key. He will give his vision on the research needs and directions to achieve sustainable and equitable (waste)water management around the globe and how this involves developments in the urban drainage field.