About
Dr Eda Majtan joined the University of Liverpool in 2024 as a lecturer in civil engineering. She specialises in fluid–structure interaction, informed by experience as a dam design engineer and research on river flow, floating debris and masonry arch bridge behaviour. Her expertise includes field investigations, physical modelling, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and finite element analysis of hydraulic structures.
Before joining Liverpool, Dr Majtan was a lecturer at the University of Salford (2022–24). She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in 2022 on the behaviour of masonry arch bridges under flood flow and floating debris impact, producing the first quantification of flood-induced hydrodynamic and debris forces on bridge superstructures. Her PhD research was a finalist for the 2024 ICE–New Civil Engineer Bridges Awards in the Innovation in Climate Resilience category. From 2021 to 2023, she also contributed to the SENSUM – Smart SENSing of landscapes Undergoing hazardous hydrogeological Movement – project.
She is a reviewer for EPSRC Peer Review College and Q1 journals, e.g., the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Journal of Flood Risk Management and the ECR Reviewer Board member of the ICE - Bridge Engineering Journal and a member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), International Masonry Society (IMS), Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), SPHERIC, DualSPHysics, CCP-WSI, UK SPH SIG and UK Women in Fluid Dynamics SIG.