Prof. Rainer Haldenwang spent his first 10 years in the employment of the SA Port authorities in their harbour engineering division. During this period stationed at Saldanha Bay Harbour, he gained experience in management, general harbour maintenance and design, hydrographical and land survey, contract management and supervision, and research. As Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and now Associate Professor at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology he has been lecturing several civil engineering subjects over a period of 26 years. He has been involved in the Flow Process Research Centre since 1997. From Jan 2009 he is heading the FPRC as well as being head of research and Associate Professor in the department of Civil Engineering and Surveying