Ehab was born in 1965 in Delta Barrage, Egypt. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1987 in Egypt, his master’s in 1991 and his PhD in 1994 at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (IIHR) in Iowa City, IA. In 1997, he was appointed assistant professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was promoted to associate professor in 2001, then to full professor in 2006. He is currently the Director of the Center of Louisiana Water Studies under the Institute of Coastal Ecology and Engineering.

Ehab has nearly 20 years experience in hydrologic/hydrodynamic modeling, contaminant fate and transport and morphologic modeling development and applications. He is involved in large-scale coastal ecosystem restoration programs in south Louisiana and the South Florida’s Everglades. In addition to his duties as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Research and the Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), he is active with the American Society of Civil Engineers as a member and a former chair of the “Computational Hydraulics” National Committee. He is also serving as a referee for numerous highly reputable technical journals and has participated in the steering and organizing committees for national and international conferences.

He is considered an expert in the following areas:

• Hydro-ecological modeling of coastal wetlands
• Numerical modeling of riverine and estuarine systems
• Sediment and constituents transport