About
Prof. Dr. Yoshihide Wada is a Chair Professor of Global Water and Food Security at Utrecht University’s Faculty of Geosciences and Director of Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). His work focuses on Earth Surface Hydrology, integrating human impacts with global water systems.
- Key affiliations: Utrecht University (Netherlands), IIASA (Austria)
- Academic leadership: Modeling global water resources, assessing sustainability
Dr. Wada’s research spans water scarcity projections, groundwater depletion, and climate-water-energy-food nexus, with significant contributions to Nature, Nature Geoscience, and PNAS. His Physical Geography group develops models like PCR-GLOBWB to quantify water use and availability.
Recent publications highlight
- Global water quality trends (2023 Environmental Research Letters)
- Asian water tower vulnerability (2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
- Groundwater sustainability (2021 Geoscientific Model Development)
Scientific accolades include
- 2018 EGU Arne Richter Award
- 2017 Dutch Hydrological Society Prize
- 2017 MEXT NICE STEP Award
- 2012 AGU Horton Grant
- Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science/Scopus)
As Editor of Water Resources Research and One Earth, he advances hydrological science through 300+ peer-reviewed works and 200+ conference invitations. His projects with World Bank, IPCC, and UNEP shape water policy in East Africa, Zambezi Basin, and Developing Asia.
