Nemanja Trifunovic is an Associate Professor of Water Supply Engineering at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands. He is a specialist in the field of water distribution, in general, and in the application of computer models in urban distribution networks, in particular. Apart from lecturing assignments, the author is involved in the guidance of MSc research as well as in organising various forms of training, including the development and implementation of online courses in water distribution. Numerous lecturing missions that he has conducted all over the world include participation in various capacity development projects and educational and training programmes. In addition to his academic duties, in his nearly 30-years long career at IHE the author served as the programme coordinator of The Sanitary Engineering Masters programme and was the director of large capacity development projects conducted at universities and water utilities in Ghana, South Africa and Mozambique.