Tolera Abdissa Feyissa | Engineering | Most Cited Article Award
Rostock University | Germany
Mr. Tolera Abdissa Feyissa is an academic and researcher in the field of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering with extensive experience in teaching, research, and academic leadership. He has served in higher education for more than a decade, progressing through roles as graduate assistant, assistant lecturer, lecturer, and assistant professor within engineering institutions. His academic work focuses on hydraulics, hydrology, flood and drought risk management, groundwater hydrology, open channel flow, hydraulic structures, and water resources planning and management. He has played a significant role in postgraduate education, including coordinating a Home Grown Postgraduate Program in collaboration with international partners, where he was responsible for organizing research activities, coordinating scholars, and strengthening academic capacity. In addition to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, he has supervised and advised master’s students in hydraulic engineering on a wide range of research topics and has been actively involved in laboratory-based experimental work in hydraulic engineering. He has also contributed to academic administration and research development through leadership roles such as Research and Publication Director, supporting research dissemination and institutional research performance. His teaching portfolio includes core and advanced courses in hydraulics, surface and groundwater hydrology, environmental impact assessment, and water resources systems.
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Featured Publications
Identification of Soil Erosion-Prone Areas for Effective Mitigation Measures Using Morphometric Analysis and GIS
– Results in Engineering, 2024
Prioritization of Susceptible Watersheds to Sediment Yield and Evaluation of Best Management Practice: A Case Study of Awata River, Southern Ethiopia
– Applied & Environmental Soil Science, 2022
Performance Evaluation of HEC-HMS Model for Continuous Runoff Simulation of the Gilgel Gibe Watershed, Southwest Ethiopia
– Journal of Water and Land Development, 2021