Dr Kifle Woldearegay Woldemariam is an Associate Professor at Mekelle University (MU), Ethiopia, specializing in Geo-engineering.
He had been working at the Ethiopian Geological Survey before joining Mekelle University in 1998. Since joining MU, he has been Teaching several courses (undergraduate and postgraduate), involved in different Research Projects, and assumed different Administrative Positions (at department and faculty levels).
Between 2006-2008, Dr Woldemariam was the Vice President for Academic and Research of Aksum University (a newly established public higher education institution) in Ethiopia.
He has been involved in several projects, among which are: (a) site investigations for infrastructural development (mainly roads, bridges, and railway) including landslide and earthquake evaluation and design of mitigation measures, (b) study, design and construction of different water harvesting schemes (such as dams, diversion weirs, and others), (c) hydrological effects of natural resources management/landscape restorations, (d) evaluation of the efficiency and sustainability of small-scale irrigation practices, (e) issues related to surface and groundwater irrigation, (f) water harvesting from roads and road catchments, and (g) natural hazards and challenges of infrastructural development in hilly/mountainous terrains, rift escarpments, and active rift systems.
