2009-2015     PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources,    UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, & Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

2009-2015    Post-graduate Diploma, Netherlands Research School for the Socio‐Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE)

2005-2007     MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1998-2002     BSc in Soil and Water Conservation, Mekelle University, Ethiopia

Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University (Since December 2021)

Head, Center for Environment and Development Studies, College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University

Awards (if any): Best Academic performance awards from Addis Ababa Technical School, Butajira High School and Butajira Elementary and Junior schools (1989 and 1997); WOTRO research grant award; NUFFIC grant award; UKRI-GRCF research grant award

Membership of international journals: reviewers for journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Land, Remote Sensing, CATENA, Journal of Hydrology, etc.

Membership of Editorial roles: Guest editor for Land Journal

Building name:

Office room no.: 2

Office tel.: +251111544200

Mobile: +251911317389

University email ID: Ermias.teferi@aau.edu.et

Alternative email: ermias52003@yahoo.com

2.      Remote Sensing and GIS analysis

3.      Landscape Transformation and Land degradation

4.      Climate and Disaster Risk Management

· Damtew, Addisu, Ermias Teferi, and Victor Ongoma. “Farmers’ perceptions and spatial statistical modeling of most systematic LULC transitions: Drivers and livelihood implications in Awash Basin, Ethiopia.” Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 25 (2022): 100661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100661

· Tesfaw, A., Senbeta, F., Alemu, D. and Ermias Teferi., (2021). Value Chain Analysis of Eucalyptus Wood Products in the Blue Nile Highlands of Northwestern Ethiopia. Sustainability, 13(22), p.12819. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212819

· Worku, Gebrekidan, Ermias Teferi, Amare Bantider, and Yihun T. Dile. “Modelling hydrological processes under climate change scenarios in the Jemma sub-basin of upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia.” Climate Risk Management 31 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100272

· Ewunetu, A.; Simane, B.; Ermias Teferi; F. Zaitchik, B. Relationships and the Determinants of Sustainable Land Management Technologies in North Gojjam Sub-Basin, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6365. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116365

· Worku, Gebrekidan, Ermias Teferi, and Amare Bantider. “Assessing the effects of vegetation change on urban land surface temperature using remote sensing data: the case of Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia.” Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100520

· Ewunetu, Alelgn, Belay Simane, Ermias Teferi, and Benjamin F. Zaitchik. “Mapping and Quantifying Comprehensive Land Degradation Status Using Spatial Multicriteria Evaluation Technique in the Headwaters Area of Upper Blue Nile River.” Sustainability 13, no. 4 (2021): 2244. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042244

· Ewunetu, Alelgn, Belay Simane, Ermias Teferi, and Benjamin F. Zaitchik. “Land Cover Change in the Blue Nile River Headwaters: Farmers’ Perceptions, Pressures, and Satellite-Based Mapping.” Land 10, no. 1 (2021): 68.  https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010068.

· Worku, G., Ermias Teferi, Bantider, A. and Dile, Y.T., (2020). Prioritization of watershed management scenarios under climate change in the Jemma sub-basin of the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 31, p.100714.

· Worku, G., Ermias Teferi, Bantider,A., Dile, Y. T (2019). Statistical bias correction of regional climate model simulations for climate change projection in the Jemma sub-basin, upper Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-019-03053-x.

· Befikadu Esayas, Belay Simane, Ermias Teferi, Victor Ongoma, and Nigussie Tefera, (2019) “Climate Variability and Farmers’ Perception in Southern Ethiopia,” Advances in Meteorology, vol. 2019, Article ID 7341465, 19 pages.  https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/7341465

· Befikadu Esayas, Belay Simane, Ermias Teferi, Victor Ongoma, and Nigussie Tefera, “Trends in Extreme Climate Events over Three Agroecological Zones of Southern Ethiopia,” Advances in Meteorology, vol. 2018, Article ID 7354157, 17 pages, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7354157

·  Worku, G., Ermias Teferi, Bantider,A., Dile, Y. T., & Taye M. T. (2018) Evaluation of Regional Climate Models Performance in Simulating Rainfall Climatology of Jemma Sub-basin, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 83, 53-63, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2018.06.002 .

· Worku, G., Ermias Teferi, Bantider, A., & Dile, Y. T. (2018). Observed changes in extremes of daily rainfall and temperature in Jemma Sub-Basin, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 1-16, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2412-x .

· Gebrehiwot, K., Desalegn, T., Woldu, Z., Demissew, S., & Ermias Teferi. (2018). Soil organic carbon stock in Abune Yosef afroalpine and sub-afroalpine vegetation, northern Ethiopia. Ecological Processes, 7(1), 6.

·  Yalew, S. G., Mul, M. L., van Griensven, A., Ermias Teferi, Priess, J., Schweitzer, C., & van Der Zaag, P. (2016). Land-Use Change Modelling in the Upper Blue Nile Basin. Environments, 3(3), 21.

· Ermias Teferi, Woldeamlak Bewket, and Belay Simane (2016). “Effects of land use and land cover on selected soil quality indicators in the headwater area of the Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia.” Environmental monitoring and assessment188.2: 1-12.

· Ermias Teferi., Uhlenbrook, S., & Bewket, W. (2015). Inter-annual and seasonal trends of vegetation condition in the Upper Blue Nile (Abbay) basin: dual scale time series analysis. Earth Syst. Dynam., 6, 617-636, doi:10.5194/esd-6-617-2015

· Ermias Teferi, Woldeamlak Bewket, Jochen Wenninger, Stefan Uhlenbrook (2013). Understanding recent land use and land cover dynamics in the source region of the Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia: Spatially explicit statistical modeling of systematic transitions. Agriculture Ecosystem & Environment 165, 98 – 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2012.11.007

· T. Gebretsadkan, Y.A. Mohamed, G.D. Betrie, P. van der Zaag, Ermias Teferi (2012). Trend Analysis of Runoff and Sediment Fluxes in the Upper Blue Nile Basin: A Comparative Analysis of Statistical, Physically-based Model, and Land use maps. Journal of Hydrology 482, 57-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.12.023

· Ermias Teferi, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Woldeamlak Bewket, Jochen Wenninger and Belay Simane (2010). The use of remote sensing to quantify wetland loss in the Choke Mountain range, Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14: 2415-2428. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-14-2415-2010 .

· Woldeamlak Bewket and Ermias Teferi (2009). Assessment of soil erosion hazard and prioritization for treatment at the watershed level: case study in the Chemoga watershed, Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia. Land Degradation & Development. 20: 609-622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.944