Professor

Elfatih Eltahir

FAGU, FTWAS
الفاتح الطاهر
Born
Elfatih Ali Babiker Eltahir

October 1961 (age 62)
Omdurman, Sudan
CitizenshipUSA[1]
Sudan
Alma materUniversity of Khartoum (BSc)
National University of Ireland (MSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MSc, Sc.D.)
AwardsPECASE (1997)
Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences (1999)
Hydrologic Sciences Award, AGU (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsHydrology
Water Resources
Climate change
Meteorology
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisInteractions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin (1993)
Doctoral advisorRafael L. Bras
Websitehttps://eltahir.mit.edu/

Elfatih Ali Babiker Eltahir (Arabic: الفاتح علي بابكر الطاهر, born October 1961) is a Sudanese[2] -American[1] Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and Director of the MIT-UM6P Research Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Early life and education

Elfatih Eltahir was born in Omdurman, Sudan, in October 1961 to Ali Babiker Eltahir and Nafisa Hassan Musa.[3]

He earned a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in civil engineering from the University of Khartoum in 1985.[4] He won the university Merghani Hamza Prize. He then completed a Master of Science (First Class Honours) in hydrology at the National University of Ireland in 1988, and winning the McLaughlin Award.[1][5] Eltahir then completed another Master of Science in meteorology and a Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) in Hydro-climatology, both in 1993, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[6][7] His project was about the “interactions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin”, which was funded by the NASA Fellowship in Global Change Research and was supervised by Rafael L. Bras.[3][8]

Career and research

Eltahir continued working at MIT after his Sc.D. as a post-doctoral associate before being promoted to Assistant Professor in 1994. In 1995, he became the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Chair (1995-1998). In 1998, he became an Associate Professor and then a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2003.[9] He is the H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and the Director of the MIT-Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) Research Program which focuses on sustainable development in Africa.[6][5][10]

Eltahir's research focuses on developing numerical models, that are verified against satellite observations, to study how global climate change[11][12] may impact society through changes in water availability[13][14] and disease outbreaks,[15][16] especially in Africa[17][18] and Asia.[19][20]

Award and honours

Eltahir received NASA’s New Investigator Award in 1996,[9] US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1997,[21] and Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences for his work on Climate Change in 1999.[2][22] He was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2008, and then received AGU's Hydrologic Sciences Award in 2017.[23]

In 2023, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE),[24][25] and a Fellow of The World Academy of Science (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries.[1] Eltahir is a member of the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Sudan Engineering Society, and the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences.[1][9]

Personal life

Eltahir has six siblings, and married Shahinaz Ahmed Badri in December 1991.[3] He has two children, Nafisa (Reuters’ Correspondent for Sudan and Egypt[26]) and Mohamed.[27]

Books

  • Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (2019-11-11). A Path Forward for Sharing the Nile Water: Sustainable, Smart, Equitable, Incremental. Eltahir Research Group. ISBN 978-1734069617. OCLC 1243325049.
  • Eltahir, Elfatih A. B.; Bomblies, Arne; Yamana, Teresa K. (2020-09-28). Projecting the Impacts of Climate Change on Malaria Transmission in Africa. Eltahir Research Group. ISBN 978-1734069631.
  • Eltahir, Elfatih A. B.; Wang, Guiling; Siam, Mohamed S. (2021-05-14). Natural Variability of the Nile Floods: From Pharaoh's Dream to El Niño / La Niña. Eltahir Research Group. ISBN 978-1734069662.
  • Eltahir, Elfatih A. B.; Tuel, Alexandre (2022-05-31). Future Climate of the Mediterranean and Southern Europe. Eltahir Research Group. ISBN 978-1734069679.
  • Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (2022-08-01). Hotspots for Heat Stress in a Changing Climate: Persian Gulf, South Asia, and Eastern China. Eltahir Research Group. ISBN 979-8986287409.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 s.r.l, Interfase. "TWAS elects 50 new Fellows". TWAS. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  2. 1 2 Mohareb, Esraa (2022-06-08). "Sudanese Hydrologist Calls for Tackling Root Causes of Nile Water Crisis". Al-Fanar Media. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  3. 1 2 3 Eltahir, Elfatih (1993-02-17). "Interactions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin" (PDF). MIT (Thesis). p. 188.
  4. ↑ "Professor Elfatih Eltahir | Community Jameel". www.communityjameel.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  5. 1 2 Arabic, M. I. T. (2020-03-16). "تعرف على الباحث السوداني الفاتح الطاهر وجهوده في مواجهة التحديات المناخية". إم آي تي تكنولوجي ريفيو (in Arabic). Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  6. 1 2 "Eltahir, Elfatih | MIT Centre for Global Change Science". cgcs.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  7. ↑ "Research". mit.edu. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ "CGC Host DB | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science". cpaess.ucar.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  9. 1 2 3 "Eltahir CV". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  10. ↑ "Elfatih A. B. Eltahir". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  11. ↑ Siam, Mohamed S.; Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (2017-05-01). "Climate change enhances interannual variability of the Nile river flow". Nature Climate Change. 7 (5): 350–354. Bibcode:2017NatCC...7..350S. doi:10.1038/nclimate3273. ISSN 1758-6798.
  12. ↑ "Climate Change and Muslim Societies: Examples from Africa and Asia by Elfatih Eltahir". islamicstudies.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  13. ↑ Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (1998-04-01). "A Soil Moisture-Rainfall Feedback Mechanism: 1. Theory and observations". Water Resources Research. 34 (4): 765–776. Bibcode:1998WRR....34..765E. doi:10.1029/97WR03499. S2CID 29397268.
  14. ↑ Findell, Kirsten L.; Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (2003-06-01). "Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interactions. Part I: Framework Development". Journal of Hydrometeorology. 4 (3): 552–569. Bibcode:2003JHyMe...4..552F. doi:10.1175/1525-7541(2003)004<0552:ACOSML>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1525-7541.
  15. ↑ Yamana, Teresa K.; Bomblies, Arne; Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (2016-11-01). "Climate change unlikely to increase malaria burden in West Africa". Nature Climate Change. 6 (11): 1009–1013. Bibcode:2016NatCC...6.1009Y. doi:10.1038/nclimate3085. ISSN 1758-6798.
  16. ↑ Jr, Donald G. Mcneil (2008-12-22). "In Poor Villages, Low-Tech Efforts Can Help Prevent Insects and Disease". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  17. ↑ Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (1996-01-01). "El Niño and the Natural Variability in the Flow of the Nile River". Water Resources Research. 32 (1): 131–137. Bibcode:1996WRR....32..131E. doi:10.1029/95WR02968.
  18. ↑ Gong, Cuiling; Eltahir, Elfatih (1996-10-01). "Sources of moisture for rainfall in West Africa". Water Resources Research. 32 (10): 3115–3121. Bibcode:1996WRR....32.3115G. doi:10.1029/96WR01940.
  19. ↑ Shalaby, A.; Rappenglueck, B.; Eltahir, E. a. B. (2015-01-19). "The climatology of dust aerosol over the Arabian peninsula". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions. 15 (2): 1523–1571. Bibcode:2015ACPD...15.1523S. doi:10.5194/acpd-15-1523-2015.
  20. ↑ Marcella, Marc P.; Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. (2012-01-15). "Modeling the Summertime Climate of Southwest Asia: The Role of Land Surface Processes in Shaping the Climate of Semiarid Regions". Journal of Climate. 25 (2): 704–719. Bibcode:2012JCli...25..704M. doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4080.1. hdl:1721.1/72524. ISSN 0894-8755. S2CID 14028082.
  21. ↑ "Researcher wins presidential award for work on rain forests and rainfall". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  22. ↑ "التقدم العلمي نظمت محاضرة علمية للفاتح الطاهر". الانباء (in Arabic). 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  23. ↑ AGU (2017-10-27). "Eltahir Receives 2017 Hydrologic Sciences Award". Eos. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  24. ↑ "Dr. Elfatih A.B. Eltahir". NAE Website. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  25. ↑ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 106 Members and 18 International Members". NAE Website. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  26. ↑ "Nafisa Eltahir". www.reuters.com. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  27. ↑ "سودانيون في اميركا (10):د. الفاتح الطاهر، بروفسير في معهد ماساجوستس للتكنولوجيا/واشنطن: محمد علي صالح". sudaneseonline.com. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
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