MITJA BRILLY, Ph.D., C.E.
Professor
of Hydrology and Water Management
Hajdrihova 28, room 35
Tel.: (01) 425 33 24
Fax.: (01) 251 98 97
E-mail: mitja.brilly@fgg.uni-lj.si
Elected posts and duties:
• head of the Chair of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering,
• chairman of the Slovenian National Committee for the IHP UNESCO,
• head of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study Programme in
Environmental Protection,
• member of the research and development work commission of
UL
Biography
Memberships in professional societies
Key projects
Recent publications
Bibliography
Biography
• 1965-1970 Student of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade
• 1970-1976 Research Assistant, Institute for Water Resources "Jaroslav Černi"
• 1972-1976 Post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade
• 1977 Assistant Professor at Faculty for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Survey, University of Ljubljana
• 1983 Graduation Ph.D. (Dr. Ing.). Thesis supervised by Prof.Mladen Boreli
• 1983 Associate Professor at Faculty for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Survey, University of Ljubljana,
Habilitation in Hydrology and River Regulation
• 1983 - 1996 Head of Hydraulics Division, Faculty for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Survey
• 1989 Head of Yugoslav organizing committee forAHS Symposium "Regionalization in Hydrology"
• 1989 Professor at Faculty for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Survey, University of Ljubljana and
Head of the Chair of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
• 1991 Member of Scientific Committee for HydroGIS93, Vienna,
April 1993
• 1992 - 1995 Member of the Task Force of the
Environmental Programme of the Danube River Basin
• 1992-1995 Slovenian Coordinator for EC EPDRB
"Environmental Program for the Danube River Basin" member of Task
Force in development of ICPD.
• 1997 Head of Organizing Committee Conference
FRIEND97, Postojna
• 1999 - 2014 Chairmen of University Environmental
Doctoral Studies
• 2000 - Member of the commission for approve
of construction work of the Ljubljana sewage treatment plant
• 2001 - 2004 President of SLOVENIAN ASSOCIATION OF
GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS
• 2008 Chairmen of Scientific committee for “XXIVth
Conference Of The Danubian Countries”
• 2010 Editor of book »Hydrological processes of the
Danube river basin : perspectives from the Danubian countries«:
Springer
• 2010 Member of Environmental protection Council of
Republic of Slovenia
• 2014 Member of Bureau of IHP UNESCO
• 1991 - today Head of the Slovenian National Committee for the IHP UNESCO
• 2005 - today Representative of Slovenia in EURAQUA
management board
• 2012 - today Representative of University of
Ljubljana in Erasmus Mundus Flood Risk Management postgraduate study
http://www.floodriskmaster.org/
• 1970 - today More than 70 investigations in Hydrology, Hydraulic Engineering and Environment
• 1970 - today More than 40 publications
Memberships in professional
societies
• Member of International Association for Hydraulic
Research (IAHR),
• Member of International Association of Hydrological
Sciences (IAHS),
• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU),
• Member of European Geophysical Society,
• Member of National Water Well Association,
• Constitutive Member of the Slovenian Chambers of
Engineers, Ljubljana,
• Member of the Society of Water Management of Slovenia
• Member of Slovenian Association of Geodesy and Geophysics,
Ljubljana
• Member of
EGU, AGU, IAHR, IAHS, NAGW
Key projects:
Slovenian Coordinator on the EC projects:
• “Floods, storms and radar hydrology”,
• “Hydromet”,
• “Floodaware”,
• “EFFS - European Flood Forecasting System”,
• “AWARE – Available Water Resources in Mountain
Environment”,
• “SARIB – Sava River Basin”,
• “EDUCATE - Develop a transnational postgraduate
course on Integrated Water Resources Management”.
• 2003-2005 URBEM – Urban river basin Enhancement
methods
• 2011-2016 ERASMUS-MUNDUS Flood Risk Management,
master degree
• 2011-2013 KULTURISK- (FP7) Knowledge-based
approach to develop a KULTUre of Risk prevention (265.000 EUR)
• 2012-2015 LIFE+ Ljubljanica Connect (
http://ksh.fgg.uni-lj.si/ljubljanicaConnects/) (1.190.000 EUR)
• 2012-2014 Pilot project on climate change: Building
the link between the Flood Risk Management Planning and climate
change assessment in the Sava River Basin, (14.300 EUR)
• 2013-2014 World Bank Consultant on the project Water &
Climate Adaptation Plan for the Sava River Basin
More 100 national and international
projects or consultancy reports on water management and
implementation of WFD and Flood Directive. Some of them relevant
for prposla in Slovene:
• 2009-2010 Hydrological studies Mure, (Austria,
Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary – 40.000 EUR).
• 2008-2010 Preparation of New Revision of PMF Study
and Conceptual Design Package for Flood Protection of NPP Krško
(275.000 EUR)
• 2010-2014 BOBER - Design model tools for drought monitoring,
assessment status of groundwater and the sea prognosis (36.000 EUR)
• 2014 Analysis of the flood event in May 2014 in
Bosnia and Herzegovina for the river Bosnia (36.000 Eur)
• 2014-2015 Estimation of potential flood damage
(20.000 EUR)
Recent publications:
Kryzanowski, Andrej, Brilly, Mitja, Rusjan, Simon, Schnabl, Simon.
2014. Structural flood-protection measures referring to several
European case studies: review article. Natural hazards and earth
system sciences, ISSN 1561-8633, letn. 14, str. 135-142, ilustr.,
doi: 10.5194/nhess-14-135-2014.
Brilly M., Kavčič K., Šraj M., Rusjan S. and Vidmar A., 2014,
Climate change impact on flood hazard, Evolving water resources
system, IAHS publication 364
Bezak, Nejc, Brilly , Mitja, Sraj, Mojca. 2014. Comparison between
the peaks over threshold method and the annual maximum method for
flood frequency analyses. Hydrological sciences journal, ISSN
0262-6667. [Print ed.], [v tisku] letn. XX, št. X, str. 1-29,
ilustr., doi:
Brilly , Mitja. 2010. Danube river basin coding: Chapter 4. V:
BRILLY, Mitja (edit.). Hydrological processes of the Danube river
basin: perspectives from the Danubian countries. Dordrecht [etc.]:
Springer, cop. 2010, str. 125-141
Špitalar, Maruša, Gourley, Jonathan J., Lutoff, Celine, Kirstetter,
Pierre-Emmanuel, Brilly, Mitja, carr, Nicholas G. Analysis of flash
flood parameters and human impacts in the US from 2006 to 2012.
Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694. [Print ed.], nov. 2014, letn.
519, Part A, str. 863-870,