AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

2023 Honorary Diplomate, European Water Resources Association (EWRA)

For “remarkable contributions to society”, the highest-level honor of EWRA for the world’s leading water resource engineers and scientists, awarded to 3
water experts in 2023

2021 Samuel von Pufendorf Institute Visiting Research Fellowship, The Pufendorf Institute for Advances Studies, Lund University, Sweden

2020 Ambassador Award, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

For “selfless service and outstanding societal impacts as an ambassador of the hydrologic sciences community in the real world

2020 Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

2020 Fellow, Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

2020 Best Research in Health and Clinical Science Award, 25th Razi Research Festival on Medical Sciences

For Danaei et al. (2019) “Iran in Transition”, The Lancet, Vol. 393(10184), 1984-2005, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)33197-0]

2019 Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

For "fundamental contributions to integrating game theory and decision analysis methods into conventional water resources systems models"

2019 Henry Hart Rice Fellowship, Yale University

2017 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

For “groundbreaking research in developing methods for the allocation of scarce water resources merging conflict-resolution and game-theoretic concepts for application to complex water resources systems”, and “outstanding leadership in the application of systems analysis to environmental, water and energy resource problems”

2017 Future Leaders Program Delegate, 14th Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology in Society Forum (STS Forum), STS Forum and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Nominated by the New York Academy of Sciences

2016 Best Associate Editor, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

2016 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists, European Geosciences Union (EGU)

For “fundamental contributions to integrating game-theory and decision-analysis into water management models”, 4 selections at the international level in all fields of geosciences.

2016 President's List Honourees, Imperial College London

2015 Hai-Tian (Sea-Sky) Scholar, Dalian University of Technology (DUT)

2015 Marie Skłodowska Curie International Career Grant

Swedish Research Council and Marie Sklodowska Actions (within EU's 7th Framework) Programme

2013 Productive Faculty, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida

2013 Innovative Early-Career Engineering Faculty, Fifth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium, US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

2013 Best Policy-Oriented Paper Award, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

For Madani K., Lund J. R. (2012), “California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conflict: from Cooperation to Chicken”, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Vol. 138 (2): 90-99, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000164]

2012 New Face of Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

For “work and personal achievements representing the bold and humanitarian future of civil engineering”

2012 Alex Alexander Fellowship, University of Central Florida

2012 Samuel von Pufendorf Institute Visiting Research Fellowship, The Pufendorf Institute for Advances Studies, Lund University

2012 Advisor of the Year, Knights of the RoundTable (KoRT), Registered Student Organization (RSO) Awards, University of Central Florida

2011 Internationalization Award, International Services Center, University of Central Florida

2011 DISCCRS (Dissertation Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research) Scholar (NSF/NASA-Sponsored Program)

2005 Lundabygdens Sparbanks Scholarship

2005 Lund University Scholarship, Lund University

2005 Sigfrid och Walborg Nordkvist Scholarship, Lund Institute of Technology (LTH), Lund University

2005 Landshövdling Per Westlings Minnesfond Scholarship, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University

2003 Excellent Paper and Oral Presentation Award, 10th Iranian Students Conference on Civil Engineering.

KAVEH MADANI

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