Biography:

Sameh Kantoush completed his undergraduate studies at Alexandria University in the Civil Engineering Department, Egypt, in 1997. After graduation, he worked in academic (Alexandria University and Arab Academy) and practical fields (Consulting Engineering Office and construction companies) for three years. From 2001 to 2003, he attended Saga University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Japan, and graduated with his Master thesis in water management and flood control. After joining the Laboratoire de Constructions Hydrauliques (LCH) at the Swiss Federal Institute, Switzerland, from 2003 to 2008, as a PhD student and research associate, he obtained Doctorate on the topic of reservoir sedimentation. He has been awarded a Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research (SNSF) awarded for a post-doctoral research at Water Resources Research Centre (WRRC), Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), and Kyoto University, Japan. In December 2009, he became a senior researcher at WRRC of DPRI of Kyoto University.
Since September 2011, Dr. Kantoush has been an Associate Professor at the Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Material Science, the German University in Cairo, Egypt, with experience in experimental and field work on reservoir sedimentation, river basin management of flood and sediment, integrated sediment management and instrumentation technologies for monitoring, and numerical simulations.
Kantoush's research focuses on the development of novel sediment management and monitoring techniques to aid in the development of long-term sustainable reservoir and river basin environment that can be easily adapted in the face of changing water supply storage, flood control, irrigation and power generation. In order to realize the sustainable utilization of water resources and ecological environment protection, Dr. Kantoush employed different methodologies, each one designed to achieve a specific result. The methodologies range from physical modeling to field measurements and numerical simulations, according to the spatial and temporal scales under investigation. The early work of Dr. Kantoush focused on numerical simulation for water and sediment management in channel networks. His recent work focuses on using RF-Tag, 3D Laser Scanner, LSPIV and image techniques for experimental and prototype investigations of flow and sediment in order to evaluate environmental influences and effectiveness for sustainable reservoir in Japan and European Alps. Part of his current focus is on the Aswan High Dam (AHD) responses and Nile Delta of Egypt to sedimentations of the newly constructed reservoirs in the upstream regions of the Nile Basin.

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