Dr Ananth Wuppukondur

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: ananth[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 9550777345(O) 9550777345(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Award and Honors:

I was nominated for the prestigious Kevin Stark Memorial Award for research excellence in Coastal Engineering during Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference in Sunshine Coast, Australia.

I was awarded NASA Postdoctoral Research Scholarship. (2023)

Honoary Fellowship at the University of Queensland, Australia. (2023)

The University of Queensland Research Training Program Scholarship (2017-2021)

UQ School of Civil Engineeirng Top-up Scholarship (2020)

UQ HDR Travel Grant (2020)

Commonwealth PhD Scholarship by Commonweath Scholarship Commission, UK (2017)

University of Tokyo - IIT Madras Graduate Student Scholarship, Japan (2016)

Expert Lectures:

Physical and numerical modelling of tsunami impacts in coastal rivers, Invited Guest Lecture, 29th August, 2022, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Scaling and designing tsunami flow experiments for Coatal Infrastructure Protection, Two day National Seminar on disaster resillient infrastructure, 15th March, 2022, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, India

Interacting with the Oceans, Skype-a-Scientist, interacting with grade 2 and 3 students of Ruamrudee International School, Bangkok, Thailand

Advances in Tsunami Science, Five Days Faculty Development Programme on ”Recent Research Trends in Civil Engineering” from 24th to 28th May, 2021, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, India

Modelling tsunami propagation in converging channels, 3rd CFD Meetup, June, 2021, CFD Community of Brisbane

Tsunami propagation in coastal rivers and its impacts, Australasian Fluid Mechanics Student Community

Understanding and predicting tsunami hazards, Speaker and Judge,UQ-India FLood resillience design challenge

Tsunami threat along Indian coasts and mitigation strategies, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada, India

New challenges and career advising for higher studies in Civil Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:

Reviewer for Coastal Engineering, Elsevier

Reviewer for Journal of Natural Fibres, Taylor and Francis Publications

Reviewer for Natural Hazards, Springer Nature Publications

Reviewer for Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, Taylor and Francis Publications

Reviewer for Journal of Ecohydraulics, Taylor and Francis Publications

Reviewer for International Journal of River Basin Management, Springer Publications

Reviewer Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Springer Nature Publications