Prof. Dr. Dana Mawlood

Overview

Professor Dr. Dana Mawlood is a former member of the Governing Board at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) and the current Vice President of the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH). Prof. Mawlood holds PhD MSc, BSc, Dipl.Ing from the Vienna University for Technology in Civil Engineering (Water and Environment). He brings extensive experience and deep knowledge to UKH in a wide variety of areas, especially institutional management and development. Before joining UKH, Prof. Mawlood used to work as the Head of the Civil Engineering Department at Salahaddin University in Erbil. Prof. Mawlood also possesses a long experience in the oil and gas industry. He was the Deputy General Manager of Petroleum of OMV, an Austrian multinational integrated oil, gas, and petrochemical company which is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. His international experience also includes working as a consultant for well-known Romanian and Austrian International Companies working on dam construction; AQUA and PUSCH, respectively. Prof. Mawlood is certified in management training and expertise from the International Institute for Management and Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and other management institutions in London, Austria, and the UAE.

Prof. Mawlood is a well-published author in his field with over 50 published articles dealing with water and environmental issues in Iraq and the KRI. He has publications in German, Kurdish, English, Arabic, and Bulgarian languages. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate level students in civil and water resources engineering at several universities and supervised more than 100 projects in Water and Environment Engineering. Supervised a lot of Ph.D. and master’s degree students in Water and Environmental Engineering. Prof. Mawlood Dipl. Ing.  thesis was under title:” Meerwasserentsalzung mit Hilfe von Sonnenenergie” and phD thesis under title: “Anwendung isotopenhydrologischer Untersuchungen unter speziellen klimatischen, hydrologischen und geologischen Bedingungen zur Erforschung des unterirdischen Wasserhaushalts in einem begrenzten Gebiet in Vorderasien”

Education

• - PhD in Civil Engineering (Water and Environment), Vienna University for Technology.