Mathew Herrnegger

Mathew Herrnegger is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources Management (HyWa) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). He completed his doctorate in hydrology after studying Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Management. His research focuses on hydrological modeling, integration of remote sensing data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in water management applications, climate change impacts on water resources, and big data analytics.

• Primary research areas: Hydrology, Water Resources Management, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, Remote Sensing, Machine Learning

Dr. Herrnegger leads research groups since 2013 and has published extensively on hydrology and water management, particularly in alpine and East African contexts. His work includes flood risk assessment, groundwater recharge modeling, and soil erosion studies using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques. He actively participates in international conferences and collaborates with institutions in Kenya, Uganda, and Austria.

His recent article analyses span from 2023 to 2025, covering glacier melt contributions to runoff under climate change, water quality degradation mapping, and extreme flood estimation using synthetic weather data. Key subtopics include snow-hydrology coupling, transboundary river basin management, and AI applications in stream temperature prediction.

Dr. Herrnegger contributes to university teaching and supervises student theses while engaging in knowledge transfer through GIS training workshops in Uganda and Kenya. He maintains active roles in international hydrological conferences and local Austrian climate change initiatives.