Professor Chris Perera
BSc(Eng), MSc(Eng), PhD Monash
Associate Dean, Research and Research Training
Prior to his position of Associate Dean, Professor Perera was also the Head of the School of Architectural, Civil and Mechanical Engineering from 2002-2006.
He holds a PhD from Monash University specialising in Water Resource Engineering and before joining VU in 1992, he spent five years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University and a further five years in water industry.
Chris had also been a Visiting Research Scholar at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis in Austria (1995/96), CSIRO (2000) and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2008).
Professor Perera's main research interests are in:
- water resources planning and management
- urban stormwater management
- river water quality modelling and management, and
- water asset management
He has published over 100 refereed journal and conference articles, and attracted significant amount of funding for his research work from various sources including the Australian Research Council.
Professor Perera provides training and technical support to REALM water supply planning and management computer software tool, which is widely used in Australia. He also provides specialised consultancy services to water industry in water resources planning.
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Contact details
- +61 3 9919 4729
- chris.perera@vu.edu.au