dr Tesfaye Belay Senbeta EN

Education:

• 2019 – 2024 PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  Praca doktorska: The role of human footprint in shaping drought dynamics: Hydrological modelling approaches
• 2009 – 2011 MSc in Water Resources Engineering with distinction, University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium
  MSc Thesis: Evaluating the importance of hydrological model structural uncertainties in climate change impact assessment
• 2002 – 2006 BSc in Soil & Water Engineering with distinction, Hawassa University, Faculty of Technology, Hawassa, Ethiopia
  BSc: Comparison of potential evapotranspiration estimation methods in rainfall-runoff modelling: A case study of the Lake Hawassa catchment

Research interest:

• Groundwater hydrology
• Drought dynamics
• Human-environment interaction
• Climate and land cover change impact on hydrological processe

Employment:

• Since 2025: Principal Research Specialist | Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• 2024 – 2025: Research Specialist | Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IGF PAN), Poland
• 2014 – 2018: Lecturer | College of Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia
• 2012 – 2013: Lecturer | Faculty of Engineering, Wallaga University, Ethiopia
• 2006 – 2009: Assistant Lecturer | Assela Water Technology College, Ethiopia

Scholarships and awards:

• NAWA PROM Scholarship for two months research visit abroad, Poland
• 2019 – 2023: National Science Centre (NCN) scholarship for PhD studies, Poland
• 2019: Government scholarship for developing countries, Czech Republic
• 2009 – 2010: VLIROUS scholarship for MSc studies, Flanders, Belgium

Projects:

• 2025 – 2026: “Climate change, drought, and forestation expansions: Implications for surface-groundwater hydrological connectivity (2025/09/X/ST10/00212)”, grant funded by the National Science Center (NCN), Principal Investigator (PI
• 2019 – 2023: “HUMDROUGHT: Human and climate impact on drought dynamics (2018/30/Q/ST10/00654)”, SHENG-1 grant funded by the National Science Center (NCN) through the Polish-Chinese funding initiative, PhD Researcher

Publications:

• Senbeta TB, Napiórkowski JJ, Karamuz E, Kochanek K, Woyessa YE. 2024b. Impacts of water regulation through a reservoir on drought dynamics and propagation in the Pilica River watershed. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 53: 101812 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.101812
• Senbeta TB, Kochanek K, Karamuz E, Napiorkowski JJ. 2024a. Modelling human impacts on surface and subsurface hydrological drought. Proceedings of IAHS 385: 155–162 DOI: 10.5194/PIAHS-385-155-2024
• Senbeta TB, Karamuz E, Kochanek K, Napiórkowski JJ, Romanowicz RJ. 2023. Budyko-based approach for modelling water balance dynamics considering environmental change drivers in the Vistula River basin, Poland. Hydrological Sciences Journal 68 (5): 655–669 DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2023.2187297
• Napiorkowski JJ, Piotrowski AP, Karamuz E, Senbeta TB. 2023. Calibration of conceptual rainfall-runoff models by selected differential evolution and particle swarm optimization variants. 71: 2325–2338 DOI: 10.1007/s11600-022-00988-0
• Senbeta TB, Romanowicz RJ. 2021. The role of climate change and human interventions in affecting watershed runoff responses. Hydrological Processes 35 (12): e14448 DOI: 10.1002/HYP.14448
• Karamuz E, Bogdanowicz E, Senbeta TB, Napiórkowski JJ, Romanowicz RJ. 2021. Is It a Drought or Only a Fluctuation in Precipitation Patterns?—Drought Reconnaissance in Poland. Water 2021, Vol. 13, Page 807 13 (6): 807 DOI: 10.3390/W1306080
• Dams J, Nossent J, Senbeta TB, Willems P, Batelaan O. 2015. Multi-model approach to assess the impact of climate change on runoff. Journal of Hydrology 529: 1601–1616 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.08.023