Adina Moraru
Background and activities
I graduated from the Univ. of Granada (Spain) with a BSc in Environmental Sciences and continued my studies with a pre-MSc in Geological Engineering and a joint MSc in Geological Hazards at the Univ. of Barcelona and Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona (Spain). My master’s thesis was carried out in the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the Univ. of Geneva (Switzerland) and focused on the study of geomorphic indicators controlling channel widening during flash floods affecting the uppermost areas of selected European rivers. After graduating I held the position of Managing Editor at the Earth Sciences international journal Geologica Acta.
I am currently a PhD candidate at NTNU, working on the Visualization of Flash Floods in Steep Rivers (Hydraulic Engineering & Hydroinformatics) within the World of Wild Waters (WoWW) project (under the umbrella of NTNU's Digital Transformation initiative).
Supervised
K.R. Usman (2019). Safe Rivers - Identification of critical locations along steep watercourses during flood events. 119pp. MSc thesis (with O. Bruland, K. Alfredsen & K. Aurand from SWECO)
K.M. Buvik (2020). Use of virtual reality for flood prevention and safety [in Norwegian]. 77pp. MSc thesis (with M. Isabwe and M. Konnestad from UiA, O. Bruland, S. Irshad, M. Pavlíček)
Ongoing master theses (2019/2020)
1. Hydraulic model suitability for hydrodynamic analysis based on LiDAR data of steep rivers (with K. Alfredsen)
2. Optimization of hydraulic flood simulations in steep rivers using GPU and Machine Learning (with E. Bladé and P. Salvo Rossi)
Project/Master thesis proposals (2020/2021)*
1. Optimisation of hydrodynamic fluid simulations in steep rivers for flood visualization (with N. Rüther and O. Bruland)
2. Machine Learning for image-based identification of flood-prone areas (with P. Salvo Rossi)
3. Enhancing flood analysis in steep rivers with morphological and hydraulic parameters (with O. Bruland)
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Scientific, academic and artistic work
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2020
- (2020) Current trends in the optimization of hydraulic flood simulations in ungauged steep rivers. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference in Fluvial Hydraulics (River Flow 2020).
2019
- (2019) Visualizing hydrodynamic fluid simulations within an immersive experience as a scientific dissemination strategy. MekIT’19 - 10th National Conference on Computational Mechanics.
- (2019) River idealization for identification of critical locations in steep rivers using 2D hydrodynamic modelling and GIS. 22nd Northern Research Basins Symposia/Workshop – Partners in Learning.
2018
- (2018) Las cuencas de Portainé y Romadriu: susceptibilidad al cambio y factores de control antrópicos y naturales. Geomorfología del Antropoceno. Efectos del cambio global sobre los procesos geomorfológicos.
- (2018) Factors controlling streambank erosion and channel widening: implications for flood hazard. Geomorfología del Antropoceno. Efectos del cambio global sobre los procesos geomorfológicos.