I'm Aun Dastgir, a hydraulic engineer working on alpine flood protection in Tirol. Ten years of water engineering across Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Europe and the US, now focused on 2D river modelling, hazard zone planning and the Python tools that make both faster.
I grew up in Lahore, a city on the Ravi. My first job site was Tarbela Dam on the Indus, the largest earth-filled dam in the world. Since then my work has followed rivers across three continents: the Var in Nice, the drainage networks of Berlin, the Colorado in Austin, and today the rivers and torrents of Tirol.
At Patscheider und Partner in Schwaz, I build 2D hydraulic models for flood protection and river engineering projects, working in German with municipalities, planners and authorities. Alongside that, I am in the final stage of a PhD at the University of Innsbruck on the resilience of urban water networks.
What makes my work different is the combination: practical alpine river engineering, research-level network analysis, and the habit of writing Python tools that turn slow modelling workflows into fast ones.
2D hydraulic modelling for flood protection and river engineering projects across Tirol: HYDRO_AS-2D and SMS models, inputs for hazard zone planning, GIS analysis, and Python tools that automate result post-processing.
Six-month research stay on a US EPA project: contributing to the development of SWMM5+, the next generation of the EPA's stormwater management model.
Full-time research position on graph-based resilience of urban water networks: network skeletonization using edge betweenness centrality, Global Resilience Analysis, and automated SWMM simulation pipelines in Python. Thesis in its final stage.
Six-month thesis internship developing a flood management concept for Al Uwayqilah, Saudi Arabia.
Hydroinformatics and water management across three universities, including the international Water Europe team project on the River Var in Nice.
Full-time civil engineering role after graduation, November 2017 to August 2018.
Three-month summer internship at the world's largest earth-filled dam.
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
2D models for Tyrolean rivers and torrents, water surface comparisons at bridge structures (Dorfbach, Fellentaler Bach), flood extent and difference mapping, and custom Python tools that automate the post-processing.
Contributed to the development of SWMM5+ during a six-month research stay in Texas, working on the next generation of the world's most widely used stormwater model.
Graph theory methods to simplify and stress-test drainage networks: skeletonization with edge betweenness centrality and Global Resilience Analysis driven by automated SWMM simulations.
Flood management concept for an arid-region city, developed in Berlin as a six-month master thesis project.
HYDRO_AS-2D · SMS · SWMM / SWMM5+ · 1D/2D flood modelling · bedload transport
ArcGIS / ArcMap · flood extent mapping · hazard zone planning inputs · raster analysis
Python · workflow automation · network analysis · result post-processing
Flood protection · torrent control · river engineering · urban drainage · resilience analysis
Questions about a model, a research idea, or a project in the DACH region? I'm happy to hear from you, in German or English.