Franz Tscheikner-Gratl

About

Background

Franz Tscheikner-Gratl has a Master in Civil Engineering (2011) and a PhD in Technical Sciences (2016) from the University of Innsbruck. After his PhD he was part of the Quantifying Uncertainty in Integrated Catchment Studies (QUICS) FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) at TU Delft. In 2019 he joined the Water and Wastewater Group at NTNU.

In 2013 he was awarded with the Eduard-Wallnöfer-Price of appreciation of the Tyrolean Industry and in 2016 with the Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. He is currently secretary of the working group for Urban drainage asset management (UDAM) of the Joint committee on Urban Drainage (JCUD), where he is also a part of the leadership team. Furthermore, he is an active reviewer for several scientific journals and a member of the editorial board of Urban Water Journal.

Research

Research interests

Rehabilitation and adaptation management of urban (water) infrastructure
Urban water management
Sewer asset management
Decision making processes in environmental engineering
Hydrodynamic urban drainage modelling
Uncertainties in modelling
Deterioration processes of urban water infrastructure
Interactions between multiple urban infrastructures

Publications

Asset Management of Urban Drainage Systems: If anything exciting happens, we've done it wrong!

Asset Management of Urban Drainage Systems is the first comprehensive handbook that deals with the asset management of infrastructure dedicated to both sewage and stormwater, including blue-green infrastructure.

2024

Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Clemens, Francois Henri Leon; Cherqui, Frédéric; van Duin, Bert. (2024) Asset Management of Urban Drainage Systems: If anything exciting happens, we've done it wrong!. IWA Publishing IWA Publishing
Non-fiction book
Mohan Doss, Prasanna; Roghani, Bardia; Bosco, Camillo; Abdalla, Elhadi Mohsen Hassan; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Sewer Network and Smart Water Meter Data for Modelling and Analysis of Water Distribution and Sewer Networks.
Database
Chen, Siling; Brokhausen, Florian; Wiesner, Philipp; Hegyi, Dóra; Citir, Muzaffer; Huth, Margaux. (2024) Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda. Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS)
Academic literature review
Daulat, Shamsuddin; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Bruaset, Stian; Langeveld, Jeroen; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Evaluating the generalizability and transferability of water distribution deterioration models. Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Academic article
Salehi, Sattar; Fontanta, Marcele Elisa; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Herrera, Manuel; Sadiq, Rehan; Mian, Haroon R.. (2024) A fuzzy group decision-making model for Water Distribution Network rehabilitation. Urban Water Journal
Academic article
Mohan Doss, Prasanna; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) The performance of encoder–decoder neural networks for leak detection in water distribution networks. Water Supply
Academic article
Pritsis, Spyridon; Pons, Vincent Jean-Michel Thierry; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Clemens-Meyer, François H.L.R.; Kleidorfer, Manfred; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) The role of hyetograph shape and designer subjectivity in the design of an urban drainage system. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Kerimov, Bulat; Taormina, Riccardo; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Towards transferable metamodels for water distribution systems with edge-based graph neural networks. Water Research
Academic article
Bahrami, Mahdi; Roghani, Bardia; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Rokstad, Marius Møller. (2024) A deep dive into green infrastructure failures using fault tree analysis. Water Research
Academic article
Daulat, Shamsuddin; Roghani, Bardia; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Hotspot analysis for integrated multi-infrastructure asset management. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Roghani, Bardia; Bahrami, Mahdi; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Cherqui, Frédéric; Muthanna, Tone Merete; Rokstad, Marius Møller. (2024) A comparative analysis of international guidelines for green infrastructure performance assessment. Blue-Green Systems
Academic article
Mohan Doss, Prasanna; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Leak Localization Using Autoencoders and Shapley Values. Engineering Proceedings
Academic article
Pons, Vincent; Strømberg, Merethe Arntsen; Blecken, Godecke-Tobias; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Viklander, Maria; Muthanna, Tone Merete. (2024) Embracing epistemic uncertainty: a risk evaluation method for pollutants in stormwater. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Daulat, Shamsuddin; Roghani, Bardia; Langeveld, Jeroen G.; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Metrics to quantify the degree of co-location of urban water infrastructure. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Vargas Alvarez, Kevin Alberto; Waak, Michael; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Rokstad, Marius Møller. (2024) Tool to Model the Potential Risk of Legionella Growth in Premise Plumbing Systems. Engineering Proceedings
Academic article

2023

Pons, Vincent Jean-Michel Thierry; Abdalla, Elhadi Mohsen Hassan; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Alfredsen, Knut Tore; Sivertsen, Edvard; Bertrand-Krajewski, Jean-Luc. (2023) Practice makes the model: A critical review of stormwater green infrastructure modelling practice. Water Research
Academic article
Mohan Doss, Prasanna; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Steffelbauer, David; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2023) Uncertainties in different leak localization methods for water distribution networks: a review. Urban Water Journal
Academic literature review
Kerimov, Bulat; Bentivoglio, Roberto; Garzón, Alexander; Isufi, Elvin; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Steffelbauer, David. (2023) Assessing the performances and transferability of graph neural network metamodels for water distribution systems. Journal of Hydroinformatics
Academic article

2022

Meier, Robert; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Steffelbauer, David; Makropoulos, Christos. (2022) Flow Measurements Derived from Camera Footage Using an Open-Source Ecosystem. Water
Academic article
Langeveld, Jeroen G.; Cherqui, Frédéric; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Muthanna, Tone Merete; Fernandez-Delgado Juarez, Marina ; Leitao, Joao. (2022) Asset management for blue-green infrastructures: a scoping review. Blue-Green Systems
Academic article
Daulat, Shamsuddin; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Klein-Paste, Alex; Langeveld, Jeroen G.; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2022) Challenges of integrated multi-infrastructure asset management: a review of pavement, sewer, and water distribution networks. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article

2021

Fugledalen, Thomas; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2021) On the influence of input data uncertainty on sewer deterioration models–a case study in Norway. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article

2020

Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Caradot, Nicolas; Cherqui, Frédéric; Leitão, João P.; Ahmadi, Mehdi; Langeveld, Jeroen. (2020) Sewer asset management – state of the art and research needs. Urban Water Journal
Academic literature review
Ambauen, Noemi; Muff, Jens; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Trinh, Thuat; Halle, Cynthia; Meyn, Thomas. (2020) Application of electrochemical oxidation in cold climate regions – Effect of temperature, pH and anode material on the degradation of Bisphenol A and the formation of disinfection by-products. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
Academic article

2019

Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Bellos, Vasilis; Schellart, Alma; Moreno-Rodenas, Antonio; Muthusamy, Manoranjan; Langeveld, Jeroen. (2019) Recent insights on uncertainties present in integrated catchment water quality modelling. Water Research
Academic literature review
Vonach, Tanja; Kleidorfer, Manfred; Rauch, Wolfgang; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2019) An Insight to the Cornucopia of Possibilities in Calibration Data Collection. Water resources management
Academic article
Moreno-Rodenas, Antonio; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Langeveld, Jeroen; Clemens, Francois. (2019) Uncertainty analysis in a large-scale water quality integrated catchment modelling study. Water Research
Academic article

2018

Kleidorfer, Manfred; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Vonach, Tanja; Rauch, Wolfgang. (2018) What can we learn from a 500-year event? – Experiences from urban drainage in Austria. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Leimgruber, Johannes; Steffelbauer, David; Krebs, Gerald; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Muschalla, Dirk. (2018) Selecting a series of storm events for a model-based assessment of combined sewer overflows. Urban Water Journal
Academic article
Vonach, Tanja; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2018) A Heuristic Method for Measurement Site Selection in Sewer Systems. Water
Academic article
Winkler, Daniel; Haltmeier, Markus; Kleidorfer, Manfred; Rauch, Wolfgang; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2018) Pipe failure modelling for water distribution networks using boosted decision trees. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article

2017

Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Egger, Patrick; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2017) Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods for Integrated Rehabilitation Prioritization. Water
Academic article
Mikovits, Christian; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Jasper-Tönnies, Alrun; Einfalt, Thomas; Huttenlau, Matthias; Schöpf, Martin. (2017) Decision Support for Adaptation Planning of Urban Drainage Systems. Journal of water resources planning and management
Academic article

2016

Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Sitzenfrei, Robert; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2016) Integrated rehabilitation planning of urban infrastructure systems using a street section priority model. Urban Water Journal
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Sitzenfrei, Robert; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2016) Enhancement of limited water supply network data for deterioration modelling and determination of rehabilitation rate. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Zeisl, Peter; Kinzel, Carolina; Leimgruber, Johannes; Ertl, Thomas; Rauch, Wolfgang. (2016) Lost in calibration: why people still don’t calibrate their models, and why they still should – a case study from urban drainage modelling. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2016) Integrated Approach for Multi-Utility Rehabilitation Planning of Urban Water Infrastructure – Focus on small and medium sized Municipalities. Innsbruck University Press Innsbruck University Press
Academic monograph

2014

Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Mikovits, Christian; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2014) Adaptation of sewer networks using integrated rehabilitation management. Water Science and Technology
Academic article

2013

Kleidorfer, Manfred; Möderl, Michael; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Hammerer, Max; Kinzel, Heiko; Rauch, Wolfgang. (2013) Integrated planning of rehabilitation strategies for sewers. Water Science and Technology
Academic article

Journal publications

Chen, Siling; Brokhausen, Florian; Wiesner, Philipp; Hegyi, Dóra; Citir, Muzaffer; Huth, Margaux. (2024) Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda. Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS)
Academic literature review
Daulat, Shamsuddin; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Bruaset, Stian; Langeveld, Jeroen; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Evaluating the generalizability and transferability of water distribution deterioration models. Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Academic article
Salehi, Sattar; Fontanta, Marcele Elisa; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Herrera, Manuel; Sadiq, Rehan; Mian, Haroon R.. (2024) A fuzzy group decision-making model for Water Distribution Network rehabilitation. Urban Water Journal
Academic article
Mohan Doss, Prasanna; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) The performance of encoder–decoder neural networks for leak detection in water distribution networks. Water Supply
Academic article
Pritsis, Spyridon; Pons, Vincent Jean-Michel Thierry; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Clemens-Meyer, François H.L.R.; Kleidorfer, Manfred; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) The role of hyetograph shape and designer subjectivity in the design of an urban drainage system. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Kerimov, Bulat; Taormina, Riccardo; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Towards transferable metamodels for water distribution systems with edge-based graph neural networks. Water Research
Academic article
Bahrami, Mahdi; Roghani, Bardia; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Rokstad, Marius Møller. (2024) A deep dive into green infrastructure failures using fault tree analysis. Water Research
Academic article
Daulat, Shamsuddin; Roghani, Bardia; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Hotspot analysis for integrated multi-infrastructure asset management. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Roghani, Bardia; Bahrami, Mahdi; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Cherqui, Frédéric; Muthanna, Tone Merete; Rokstad, Marius Møller. (2024) A comparative analysis of international guidelines for green infrastructure performance assessment. Blue-Green Systems
Academic article
Mohan Doss, Prasanna; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Leak Localization Using Autoencoders and Shapley Values. Engineering Proceedings
Academic article
Pons, Vincent; Strømberg, Merethe Arntsen; Blecken, Godecke-Tobias; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Viklander, Maria; Muthanna, Tone Merete. (2024) Embracing epistemic uncertainty: a risk evaluation method for pollutants in stormwater. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Daulat, Shamsuddin; Roghani, Bardia; Langeveld, Jeroen G.; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Metrics to quantify the degree of co-location of urban water infrastructure. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Vargas Alvarez, Kevin Alberto; Waak, Michael; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Rokstad, Marius Møller. (2024) Tool to Model the Potential Risk of Legionella Growth in Premise Plumbing Systems. Engineering Proceedings
Academic article
Pons, Vincent Jean-Michel Thierry; Abdalla, Elhadi Mohsen Hassan; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Alfredsen, Knut Tore; Sivertsen, Edvard; Bertrand-Krajewski, Jean-Luc. (2023) Practice makes the model: A critical review of stormwater green infrastructure modelling practice. Water Research
Academic article
Mohan Doss, Prasanna; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Steffelbauer, David; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2023) Uncertainties in different leak localization methods for water distribution networks: a review. Urban Water Journal
Academic literature review
Kerimov, Bulat; Bentivoglio, Roberto; Garzón, Alexander; Isufi, Elvin; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Steffelbauer, David. (2023) Assessing the performances and transferability of graph neural network metamodels for water distribution systems. Journal of Hydroinformatics
Academic article
Meier, Robert; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Steffelbauer, David; Makropoulos, Christos. (2022) Flow Measurements Derived from Camera Footage Using an Open-Source Ecosystem. Water
Academic article
Langeveld, Jeroen G.; Cherqui, Frédéric; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Muthanna, Tone Merete; Fernandez-Delgado Juarez, Marina ; Leitao, Joao. (2022) Asset management for blue-green infrastructures: a scoping review. Blue-Green Systems
Academic article
Daulat, Shamsuddin; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Klein-Paste, Alex; Langeveld, Jeroen G.; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2022) Challenges of integrated multi-infrastructure asset management: a review of pavement, sewer, and water distribution networks. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article
Fugledalen, Thomas; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2021) On the influence of input data uncertainty on sewer deterioration models–a case study in Norway. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Caradot, Nicolas; Cherqui, Frédéric; Leitão, João P.; Ahmadi, Mehdi; Langeveld, Jeroen. (2020) Sewer asset management – state of the art and research needs. Urban Water Journal
Academic literature review
Ambauen, Noemi; Muff, Jens; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Trinh, Thuat; Halle, Cynthia; Meyn, Thomas. (2020) Application of electrochemical oxidation in cold climate regions – Effect of temperature, pH and anode material on the degradation of Bisphenol A and the formation of disinfection by-products. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Bellos, Vasilis; Schellart, Alma; Moreno-Rodenas, Antonio; Muthusamy, Manoranjan; Langeveld, Jeroen. (2019) Recent insights on uncertainties present in integrated catchment water quality modelling. Water Research
Academic literature review
Vonach, Tanja; Kleidorfer, Manfred; Rauch, Wolfgang; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2019) An Insight to the Cornucopia of Possibilities in Calibration Data Collection. Water resources management
Academic article
Moreno-Rodenas, Antonio; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Langeveld, Jeroen; Clemens, Francois. (2019) Uncertainty analysis in a large-scale water quality integrated catchment modelling study. Water Research
Academic article
Kleidorfer, Manfred; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Vonach, Tanja; Rauch, Wolfgang. (2018) What can we learn from a 500-year event? – Experiences from urban drainage in Austria. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Leimgruber, Johannes; Steffelbauer, David; Krebs, Gerald; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Muschalla, Dirk. (2018) Selecting a series of storm events for a model-based assessment of combined sewer overflows. Urban Water Journal
Academic article
Vonach, Tanja; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2018) A Heuristic Method for Measurement Site Selection in Sewer Systems. Water
Academic article
Winkler, Daniel; Haltmeier, Markus; Kleidorfer, Manfred; Rauch, Wolfgang; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2018) Pipe failure modelling for water distribution networks using boosted decision trees. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Egger, Patrick; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2017) Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods for Integrated Rehabilitation Prioritization. Water
Academic article
Mikovits, Christian; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Jasper-Tönnies, Alrun; Einfalt, Thomas; Huttenlau, Matthias; Schöpf, Martin. (2017) Decision Support for Adaptation Planning of Urban Drainage Systems. Journal of water resources planning and management
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Sitzenfrei, Robert; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2016) Integrated rehabilitation planning of urban infrastructure systems using a street section priority model. Urban Water Journal
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Sitzenfrei, Robert; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2016) Enhancement of limited water supply network data for deterioration modelling and determination of rehabilitation rate. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Zeisl, Peter; Kinzel, Carolina; Leimgruber, Johannes; Ertl, Thomas; Rauch, Wolfgang. (2016) Lost in calibration: why people still don’t calibrate their models, and why they still should – a case study from urban drainage modelling. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Mikovits, Christian; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred. (2014) Adaptation of sewer networks using integrated rehabilitation management. Water Science and Technology
Academic article
Kleidorfer, Manfred; Möderl, Michael; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Hammerer, Max; Kinzel, Heiko; Rauch, Wolfgang. (2013) Integrated planning of rehabilitation strategies for sewers. Water Science and Technology
Academic article

Books

Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz; Clemens, Francois Henri Leon; Cherqui, Frédéric; van Duin, Bert. (2024) Asset Management of Urban Drainage Systems: If anything exciting happens, we've done it wrong!. IWA Publishing IWA Publishing
Non-fiction book
Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2016) Integrated Approach for Multi-Utility Rehabilitation Planning of Urban Water Infrastructure – Focus on small and medium sized Municipalities. Innsbruck University Press Innsbruck University Press
Academic monograph

PRODUKT

Mohan Doss, Prasanna; Roghani, Bardia; Bosco, Camillo; Abdalla, Elhadi Mohsen Hassan; Rokstad, Marius Møller; Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz. (2024) Sewer Network and Smart Water Meter Data for Modelling and Analysis of Water Distribution and Sewer Networks.
Database

Teaching

Courses

Supervision

Current PhD-Students:

Shamsuddin Daulat - Interdependencies in multi-infrastructure asset management

Prasanna Mohan Doss - Leak detection and localization tools for improving water smartness in Water Distribution Networks

Bulat Kerimov - Interpretable Models with Graph Neural Networks to support the Green Transition of Critical Infrastructures

Spyros Pritsis - Evolving calibration: How advances in measurements can affect our approach to rainwater modeling

Co-Supervisor for:

Mahdi Bahrami - Developing a digital tool for infrastructure asset management and decision support of nature-based solution

Kevin Vargas Álvarez - Development of a new hybrid hydraulic-machine learning model to assess and forecast the potential risk for Legionella growth and performance of building water systems

Språkvelger

Franz Tscheikner-Gratl