Dr Gustavo A. M. de Almeida PhD., BEng
Associate Professor in Hydraulic Engineering

Dr Gustavo A. M. de Almeida is an Associate Professor in Hydraulic Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton. He is a member of the Water and Environmental Engineering Group and is currently the Director of School of Engineering Postgraduate Research programmes. After completing his PhD in hydraulic engineering at UPC BarcelonaTech, Gustavo worked at the universities of Newcastle (Australia) and Bristol, before joining the University of Southampton as a lecturer in 2013.
Gustavo’s main research interests are in the application of fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and applied mathematics to understand and solve engineering and environmental problems.
Particular applications span across a wide range of problems, including the development of methods to predict and mitigate the impacts of floods (e.g. efficient flood inundation computational models, improved methods to assess scour around bridge piers and the effects of wood debris transported in rivers on submerged infrastructure), the hydrodynamic optimisation of raceway ponds used to cultivate algae, as well as the fundamental investigation of how sediment particles are transported by turbulent flows.
His research has attracted funding from research councils (e.g. NERC funded “DEBRIEF” project NE/R009015, Innovate-UK grant TS/V002414) and industry (e.g. Jacobs Engineering).