DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY FOR EUROPE-AFRICA

Dr. Schalk Els

Associate Professor
University of Pretoria
Private Bag X20
Hatfield, 0028
Pretoria
South Africa

 schalk.els@up.ac.za

DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY FOR
ASIA-PACIFIC

Dr. Taizo Kobayashi

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ritsumeikan University
Shiga 525-8577
Japan

kobat@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp
website

DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY FOR AMERICAS

Dr. Mehari Tekeste

Associate Professor
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
USa

mtekeste@iastate.edu

GENERAL SECRETARY

Massimo Martelli

CNR - STEMS
Branch office of Ferrara
(formerly IMAMOTER)
National Research Council of Italy
Via Canal Bianco, 28
44124 Ferrara
Italy

Tel: +39 0532-735636
gs@istvs.org

STAFF

Renee Melendy
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
renee.d.melendy@usace.army.mil

Jenna Dixon
DIGITAL OPERATIONS
hello@istvs.org

STUDENT COORDINATORS

Varsha Swamy
vswamy@vt.edu

Mohit Shenvi
mshenvi@vt.edu

Andries Peenze
andriespeenze@tuks.co.za

Past ISTVS Presidents

1962–1965 | James J. Murray (General Secretary), USA
1965–1969 | Alan R. Reece,  United Kingdom
1969–1972 | Norman W. Radforth, Canada
1972–1975 | Walter Söhne, Germany
1975–1978 | Dean R. Freitag, USA
1978–1981 | Stig A. K. Areskoug, Sweden
1981–1984 | I. Robert Ehrlich, USA
1984–1987 | Klaus-Jürgen Melzer, Germany
1987–1990 | Robert. D. Wismer, USA
1990–1993 | Michael John Dwyer, United Kingdom
1993–1996 | Raymond N. Yong, Canada
1996–1999 | Masanori Kitano, Japan
1999–2002 | Helmut Schwanghart, Germany
2002–2005 | J. Y. Wong, Canada
2005–2008 | Iwan Wästerlund, Sweden
2008–2011 | Kazuyoshi Tateyama, Japan
2011–2014 | Sally Shoop, USA
2014–2017 | Péter Kiss, Hungary
2017–2020 | Dr. Hiroshi Nakashima, Japan
2020–2024 | Dr. Corina Sandu, USA