TESFAYE BELAY SENBETA, Research specialist

Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Ksiecia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw
Phone: +48794051171, E-mail: tsenbeta@igf.edu.pl

    Education

Ø  Since 2019: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Dissertation: The role of human footprint in shaping drought dynamics: Hydrological modelling approaches

Ø  2009 - 2011: University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium

MSc in Water Resources Engineering (Cum Laude)

Thesis: Evaluating the importance of hydrological model structural uncertainties in climate change impact assessment

Ø  2002 - 2006: Hawassa University, Faculty of Technology, Hawassa, Ethiopia.

BSc in Soil & Water Engineering & Management (with distinction)

Thesis: Comparison of potential evapotranspiration estimation methods in rainfall-runoff modelling: A case study of the Lake Hawassa catchment

Employment

Ø  Since Oct 2019: Research specialist | Institute of Geophysics of Polish Academy of Sciences (IGF PAN), Poland

Ø  Sept 2013 – Dec 2018: Lecturer | Department of Civil Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia.

Ø  Oct.2011 – Aug.2013: Lecturer | Faculty of Engineering, Wallaga University, Ethiopia.

Ø  Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2009: Assistant lecturer | Water Technology Faculty, Assela TVET College, Ethiopia.

Research Interest

Ø Coupled surface-groundwater flow modelling

Ø  Drought dynamics and propagation

Ø  Climate change impacts assessment

Ø Vulnerability and adaptation to hydrological extremes

Scholarships

   Ø  NCN scholarship | Oct 2019 – Sept 2023 | IGF PAN, Poland

   Ø  NAWA PROM Scholarship | August 2022 & February 2023 | IGF PAN, Poland

   Ø  Czech Government scholarship | Jan 2019 – Sept 2019 | CZU, Czechia

   Ø  VLIR-OUS scholarship | Sept 2009 – Sept 2011 | KU Leuven and VUB, Belgium

Publications

1. Senbeta TB, Napiórkowski JJ, Karamuz E, Kochanek K, Woyessa YE. 2024b. Impacts of water  egulation through a reservoir on drought dynamics and propagation in the Pilica River watershed. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 53: 101812 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.1018122. Senbeta TB, Kochanek K, Karamuz E, Napiorkowski JJ. 2024a. Modelling human impacts on surface and subsurface hydrological drought. Proceedings of IAHS 385: 155–162 DOI: 10.5194/PIAHS-385-155-2024
2. Senbeta TB, Karamuz E, Kochanek K, Napiórkowski JJ, Romanowicz RJ. 2023. Budyko-based approach for modelling water balance dynamics considering environmental change drivers in the Vistula River basin, Poland. Hydrological Sciences Journal 68 (5): 655–669 DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2023.2187297
3. Napiorkowski JJ, Piotrowski AP, Karamuz E, Senbeta TB. 2023. Calibration of conceptual rainfall-runoff models by selected differential evolution and particle swarm optimization variants. 71: 2325–2338 DOI: 10.1007/s11600-022-00988-0
4. Senbeta TB, Romanowicz RJ. 2021. The role of climate change and human interventions in affecting watershed runoff responses. Hydrological Processes 35 (12): e14448 DOI: 10.1002/HYP.14448
5. Karamuz E, Bogdanowicz E, Senbeta TB, Napiórkowski JJ, Romanowicz RJ. 2021. Is It a Drought or Only a Fluctuation in Precipitation Patterns?—Drought Reconnaissance in Poland. Water 2021, Vol. 13, Page 807 13 (6): 807 DOI: 10.3390/W13060807
6. Dams J, Nossent J, Senbeta TB, Willems P, Batelaan O. 2015. Multi-model approach to assess the impact of climate change on runoff. Journal of Hydrology 529: 1601–1616 DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2015.08.023