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Professor Ana Maria F. da Silva is a Full Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen’s University in Canada. Born and raised in Portugal, she holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1985) from the University of Porto, Portugal, and a M.Sc. (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) from Queen’s University. She previously worked for the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC), Lisbon, Portugal (1985-1989), the US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Mississippi (1996-1997), and the University of Windsor, Canada (1997-2000).
Her main research interests are Environmental Fluid Mechanics, River Mechanics, and Large-Scale River Morphology and Morphodynamics. She has published extensively in these topics, and especially on large-scale bed forms, resistance to flow, and the hydro-morphodynamics of meandering rivers. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and presently serves as Vice-President of IAHR.