Miklas Scholz

Scholz's main research areas are treatment wetlands, integrated constructed wetlands (ICW), sustainable flood retention basins (SFRB), permeable pavement systems, decision support systems, ponds and capillary suction time. He has published 4 books and over 240 articles in various journals. He has also served as an Editor of several scientific journals. In 2020, his work has been cited over 6800 times according to Google Scholar, with an h-index of 42.

In 2019, Scholz was awarded €7,000,000 for the EU H2020 REA project Water Retention and Nutrient Recycling in Soils and Streams for Improved Agricultural Production (WATERAGRI). He received €1,520,000 in 2018 for the JPI Water Project 2018.

Scholz started his academic career as a lecturer at the University of Bradford. He worked at the University of Edinburgh between 2002 and 2010. He left the University of Edinburgh and joined University of Salford as a full professor. There he was appointed as Chair in Civil Engineering and later as the Director of the Civil Engineering Research Centre (CERC). From 2016 till 2019, he served as a Guest Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at the Central University of Technology and of Civil Engineering Science at the University of Johannesburg. He is a Professor of Water Resources Engineering at Lund University.

Scholz completed his M.Sc. in Water Resources Engineering from City, University of London in 1995. He did his doctoral studies in Civil Engineering from the University of Birmingham in 1997. He then completed his PgC in Higher Education Practice from the University of Bradford in 2002. Scholz obtained a DSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Salford in 2017.