Ronny Berndtsson
Ronny Berndtsson, honorary president of SICR, is a professor in water resources engineering at Lund University, Sweden. He currently is the director for the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. His expertise is surface-groundwater systems, water, nutrient, and pollution transport in agricultural systems, and effects of climate change. Presently he is coordinating two major European Union projects: the Horizon 2023 FarmWise project (Future Agricultural Resource Management and Water Innovations for a Sustainable Europe) and the SmartWater4Future (Coupled Urban-Rural Water Infrastructure Management under Hydroclimatic Extremes with Decision Support System). He has published extensively on water resources and sustainable development including climate change and safe access to water (Google scholar H-index 72, +16000 citations). He has acted as an expert on water resources development, planning, and management in various countries for the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and United Nations Habitat.
Some recent publications
Bahmani, M.J., Z. Kayhomayoon, S. Ghordoyee Milan, F. Hassani, M. Malekpoor, and R. Berndtsson (2025) Development of a new hybrid model to enhance streamflow prediction using artificial neural network and reptile search algorithm, Sci. Rep., 15, 6098, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-90550-x.
Bolatova, Z., R. Sharapatova, Y. Kabiyev, R. Berndtsson, K. Tussupova (2025) Towards sustainable solutions: assessing rural access to safe drinking water and sanitation in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, Water, 17, 664, https://doi.org/10.3390/w17050664.
Bour, S., Z. Kayhomayoon, F. Hassani, S. Ghordoyee Milan, O. Bazrafshan, and R. Berndtsson (2025) Enhancement of standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index predictions by machine learning based on regression and soft computing for Iran's arid and hyper-arid region, PLoS One, 18, ;20(3):e0319678,. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0319678. PMID: 40100897.
Jia, M., C. Hana, J. Niu, M. Wang, L. Zhang, and R. Berndtsson (2025) Vegetation runoff and sediment reduction benefits and influential factor in the Loess Plateau of China: A meta-analysis, Ecol. Indic., 171, 113221, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113221.
Kayhomayoon, Z., N.A. Azar, S. Ghordoyee Milan, O. Bazrafshan, and R. Berndtsson (2025) Integration of the Reptile Search Algorithm and the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System enhances Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index forecasting, Sci. Rep., 15, 14647, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98772-9.
Mourad, K.A., J. Oele, W. Yacoob, J. Greenwalt, M. Zain, A. Al-Okaishi, A. Aulaiah, and R. Berndtsson (2025) Hydrological assessment under climatic and socioeconomic scenarios using remote sensing, QGIS and climate models: A case study of the Tuban Delta Yemen, Sustainability, 17, 2258, https://doi.org/10.3390/ su17052258.
