Soil Physicist/Hydrologist

Professor and Hydrologist

Department of Environmental Sciences

University of California Riverside

Riverside, CA, 92521

Phone/Fax: (951) 827-7854

Email: Jiri.Simunek@ucr.edu

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D. 1993 Hydrology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

M.S. 1984 Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

Positions:

2003-present - Professor and Hydrologist, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside

2000-2002 - Associate Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside

1995-2000 - Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside

1994 - Visiting Postdoctoral Soil Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside

1993-1994 - Research Associate, Research Institute of Soil Protection, Prague Czech Republic

1990-1992 - Visiting Postdoctoral Soil Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside

1988 - Visiting Scientist, Department of Catchment Hydrology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

1984-1990 - Research Associate, Research Institute of Soil Amelioration, Prague, Czech Republic

Professional Activities:

American Geophysical Union (1990 - Present)

International Society of Soil Science (1994 - Present)

Soil Science Society of America (2001 - Present)

European Geophysical Society (1996 - Present)

International Association of Hydrological Sciences (1996 - Present)

Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan, 1996.

W-188, The Western Regional Research Committee (1994-present)

Secretary of ICASVR (International Committee on Atmosphere-Soil-Vegetation Relations) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (1999 - 2003)

Associate editor of the Vadose Zone Journal (2001 - 2012, 2017-present)

Associate Editor of Water Resources Research (2004-2010)

Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrological Sciences (2004 - 2010, 2019-present)

Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology (2012 - present)

Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics (2009 - 2015)

Co-Editor of the Vadose Zone Journal (2013 - 2016)

Co-Editor of the Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics (2016 - 2018)

Chair of S1 (Soil Physics) Division of Soil Science Society of America (2006-2007).

Research Interests:

Numerical Modeling of water flow and solute transport

Parameter Estimation of soil hydraulic properties

Major Ion Chemistry modeling of biogeochemical processes

Transport Processes in one and multi dimensions with various equilibrium and nonequilibrium solutes in variably saturated porous media

Specific Applications:

Carbon Dioxide Transport and Production

Multicomponent Transport of Major Ions  involving both Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium kinetic reactions

Nonlinear Nonequilibrium Transport of multiple solutes involved in first-order decay reactions

Current Major Research Objectives:

Development of tools (numerical models) to study these processes

Making the models available in user-friendly software packages

Recent Work:

Identification of soil hydraulic parameters from transient two- and three-dimensional variably-saturated flow experiments, with e.g., tension disc infiltrometers, cone penetrometers, or multiple tension extraction devices.

Development of various new modules for the HYDRUS codes, such as modules for specific irrigation methods, colloid and virus transport, geochemical transport (coupling with the geochemical model PHREEQC), overland flow, transport of dissolved organic liquids (MTBE), transport of pharmaceuticals, and coupled vapor/water and heat transport.

Honors and Awards:

Don and Betty Kirkham Award, 2005

ESR International Fellow 2006

CRCIF (Cooperative Research Center Irrigation Futures, Australia) Visiting Fellow, 2007.

Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.

“Distinguished Visitor” of the Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation of the Sede Boqer Campus, Ben Gurion University, Israel, 2009.

Soil Science Society of America Fellow, 2010.

American Geophysical Union Fellow, 2012.

University of Southern Queensland (Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia) Research Giant Award, May 2015        Journal of Hydrology Associate Editor Award Winner 2015

American Society of Agronomy Fellow, 2016

Sir Frederick McMaster Fellowship, 2016, CSIRO, Australia.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2016

CSIRO (Australia) Agriculture & Food Director's Award 2016.

Publications

Publication Record:

ISI: h-factor = 61, 326 publications; over 12,500 citations, 27 papers with 100+ citations, 215 papers with >10+ citations, 292 papers with >1+ citations; over 1,000 citations in each of the last five years (since 2013).

Google Scholar (includes other texts than peer-reviewed journal articles): h-factor = 86, g-factor = 151, i10-index: 313, over 27,800 citations, 67 papers with 100+ citations; over 2,000 citations each year since 2013, and over 2,500 citations since 2017.

ResearchGate: RG Score 46.09 (max 46.09); h-factor = 70, over 19,000 citations, over 86,000 reads.

Mendeley: h-factor = 63, 303 publications; over 13,700 citations, 14,661eaders, 222 k views; 576 co-authors.

Web Sites:

http://www.envisci.ucr.edu/faculty/simunek.html

http://www.pc-progress.com/en/Default.aspx?jirka-simunek