Kittiwet Kuntiyawichai (1977, Buriram, Thailand) received a BEng degree in Transportation Engineering from Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand (1999) and worked as lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Buriram Technical College. In 2004 he received his Master’s degree in Water Resources Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, with the thesis entitled ‘An application of INFOWORKS RS model for flood routing in Chi River Basin’. In 2005, he joined the Hydraulic Engineering - Land and Water Development (HELWD) Core, Department of Water Engineering, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, for his PhD study.