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Dr Pedro Martin-Moreta
Honorary Lecturer

Howell Building 205

Summary

Pedro (CEng, PhD, MEng) is a Lecturer in Flood and Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Brunel University London.

He has 15 years of experience in flood risk, flood modelling and river engineering, both as a consultant and researcher.

His principal research interests are flood hydraulics, flood defences, numerical modelling in rivers and geotechnical structures (tailing dams).

Qualifications

  • PhD, Technical University of Catalonia.
  • MEng in Civil Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, 1998.

Responsibility

  • MSc Flood and Coastal Engineering. Course Director (2023 - now)
  • Module Leader:
    • BE1611 (BEng - EY1)
    • CE3615 (BEng)
    • CE5640-5641 (MSc and MEng)
  • Centre of Flood Risk and Resilience (Member since 2018).
  • Deputy Course Director for FaCE Programme sponsored by the EA (2018-2023)
  • Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics and Geotechnical Design, University of West London (2015-2017).
  • Lecturer in Hydraulic Structures and River Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha (2001-2003).

Newest selected publications

Chan, KL., Lopez-Querol, S. and Martin-Moreta, P. (2025) 'Numerical Analysis of Jacked and Impact-Driven Pile Installation Procedures in Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations'. Geotechnics, 5 (1). pp. 1 - 15.Open Access Link

Journal article

Martin-Moreta, P. and Herrera-Granados, O. (2025) 'Calibration and Validation of 3D Numerical Models of a Straight Channel with Leaky Barriers', in Kalinowska, M., Mrokowska, M. and Rowiński, PM. (eds.) XLII International School of Hydraulics FRESHWATER SYSTEM HEALTH: A HYDRAULIC PERSPECTIVE. Warsaw : INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. , vol. 453 (E-14), 2025.. pp. 27 - 30.

Book chapter

Martin-Moreta, P., Lopez-Querol, S. and Martín-Vide, JP. (2023) 'Sediment Transport Capacity in a Gravel-Bed River with a Sandy Tributary'. CivilEng, 4 (4). pp. 1214 - 1232.Open Access Link

Journal article

Lopez-Querol, S., Spyridis, M., Moreta, PJM. and Arias-Trujillo, J. (2020) 'Simplified Numerical Models to Simulate Hollow Monopile Wind Turbine Foundations'. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8 (11). pp. 1 - 25.Open Access Link

Journal article

Martin-Moreta, PJM., Karugaba, D., Badji, SO., Elliman, M. and Honeychurch, R. (2020) 'Numerical analysis of river flood defences'.River Flow 2020 Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics. Delft, Netherlands. 22 - 10 July. CRC Press. pp. 1881 - 1889.Open Access Link

Conference paper
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