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Matthias Schneider earned his doctoral degree in civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart and then worked as a researcher under the professorial chair for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources at the University of Stuttgart. His research interests were concentrated in the following areas: river engineering and river hydraulics, ecohydraulics, hydraulic engineering design (pipelines, barrages, hydropower stations), modeling (habitat simulations, 1- and 2D-hydraulics, dam stability), engineering hydrology and the analysis of water supply networks. He has more than ten years experience in the design and management of water resources projects, which, among other things, attend to the environmental integrity of hydraulic engineering installations, the more natural development of watercourses and flood protection measures. He is instrumental in the development of the habitat simulation model CASiMiR and has been executive director at sje GmbH since 2001. Additionally, Dr. Schneider has a teaching assignment at the Institute for Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart.

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After earning his doctoral degree in civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Klaus Jorde was a researcher and team leader for the Ecohydraulics work group under the professorial chair for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources at the University of Stuttgart. His research interests were concentrated in the following areas: hydraulic engineering design, hydropower stations, river engineering, power production, engineering hydrology, hydraulics of watercourses, and ecohydraulics, wherein he also had teaching assignments in the programs for civil engineering, environmental engineering and Water Resources Engineering and Management (WAREM). In addition to coordinating and working on numerous projects where he provides expertise, Dr. Jorde is a member of several national and international committees and the leader of ATV-DVWK's committee on "Ecohydraulics." Dr. Jorde has been director at sje GmbH since 2001.

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Ianina Kopecki studied civil engineering in St. Petersburg (Russia) and then completed the internationally oriented Master of Science program, WAREM, at the University of Stuttgart. Before joining sje she was a research assistant at the University of Stuttgart. She specializes in the areas of hydrodynamic simulations, habitat modeling and GIS applications. Furthermore, she is instrumental in the programming and further development of the habitat simulation model CASiMiR.

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Jeffrey Tuhtan received a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo in 2003. He has worked in the field of hydraulics and municipal civil engineering, and is a certified Engineer in Training (EIT) in the State of California. During this time, Mr. Tuhtan also participated in the one-year sustainable design course "Green Building Professionals" at the University of Sonoma. Most recently, he has finished the WAREM Program at University of Stuttgart where his Master's Thesis work focused on the economic optimization of small hydropower plants. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Stuttgart researching the effects of short-term hydropower plant operations on fish habitats. His professional interests also include sustainable construction methods, especially strawbale building design.