Jiri Marsalek

About me

Jiri Marsalek is adjunct professor of Urban Water Engineering, engaged in advising PhD students and developing new studies. His extensive research experience concerns environmental engineering and science. Leading or participating in interdisciplinary research teams, he has worked and published on: urban drainage hydraulics (e.g., hydraulics of road/bridge drainage and sewers, flow metrology); urban hydrology (design rainfalls in, and adaptation to, a changing climate, urban snow hydrology); quality of stormwater and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) (described by solids, chemicals, faecal microorganisms and heat content); impacts of stormwater and CSOs on receiving waters (toxicity and exceedance of environmental limits); prevention or mitigation of such impacts by planning and retrofitting of existing systems (including environmental policies, best management practices, treatment processes, or low impact development measures); and, the assessment of existing environmental systems for controlling wet-weather pollution impacts (e.g., The Terraview-Willowfield Stormwater Management Facility located in Toronto). 

In his earlier career, Jiri Marsalek has worked as research manager and senior scientist at Environment Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada, and among other achievements, holds an Honorary Doctorate (PhD h.c.) from Luleå University of Technology “for his contributions to scientific and engineering advances in urban water management” (2006) and the IWA honorary lifetime membership “for outstanding contributions to the Association and to the water sector” (2010).

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