Robert Jüpner

Prof. Dr. Robert Jüpner is a professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), where he has led the Department of Hydraulic Engineering since February 2007.
Jüpner studied hydraulic engineering at the Technical University of Dresden, graduating with a Diplom-Ingenieur in 1990. He went on to complete his doctorate in geosciences at the Free University of Berlin in 1993. Following his PhD, he held a management role at IHU Geology & Analytics GmbH and later served as a technical assistant at the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) in Berlin, focusing on water standards.
From 1998 to 2007, he was a professor at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, where he also directed the Institute for Water Management and Ecotechnology from 2002 to 2007. During this period, he held visiting professorships at Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis in the United States.
At RPTU, Jüpner served as Director of the Kaiserslautern Institute for Flood Management and River Engineering (KLIFF) from 2009 to 2014, and as Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering from 2014 to 2017. He has also been a regular visiting professor at the University of Namibia since 2012, supported by the German development agency GIZ, and held a guest professorship in Nairobi, Kenya in 2011–2012.
His research focuses on flood risk management, flood-adapted planning and construction, and resilience in the context of extreme rainfall events. Since 2019, he has directed the M.Sc. program in Civil Engineering – Water and Mobility Infrastructure (BIWAM), and from 2022 to 2025 he led the Hydrological Sciences division of the German Water Association (DWA).