Biography

Professor Wolfgang Rauch with the 2018 IWA Outstanding Service Award. Acting professor at the University of Insbruck in Austria, Professor Rauch is a civil and environmental engineer and a widely published researcher in the fields of water pollution, drainage and integrated water management. He is an IWA Fellow and has taken on many leadership roles within the organisation, including as Chair of the Committee on Urban Drainage and Chair of the Programme Committee to name just a couple. He has also been active in the publishing community, serving for more than a decade as editor of the journal Water Research, and since 2014 he has been editor-in-chief of the journal Water Science and Technology.

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