Surface Water Systems
Catchment Lab
Maulana Ibrahim Rau
Co-Founder, Surface Water & Flood Risk Lead
The People Behind Reksar Lab
Four co-founders from different fields: water systems, environmental risk and the digital tools used for research.
Who leads which work
Independent. Based on evidence.
Groundwater Systems
Basin Lab
Luthfan Harisan Jihadi
Co-Founder, Groundwater & Drought Risk Lead
Works across both laboratories
Water Quality & Contamination Risk
Fikri Noor Azy
Co-Founder, Water Quality & Contamination Risk Lead
Digital systems for research
Data, Monitoring & Digital Systems
Alfred Louise Hutomo
Co-Founder, Technology Lead
Scientific lead designations refer to scientific responsibility within the research programme and are separate from any formal legal governance roles within the Foundation.
Founding Team
Fikri Noor Azy
Co-Founder · Water Quality & Contamination Risk Lead
Hydrogeologist and environmental scientist working on groundwater contamination, water quality and how those become risk.
Academic background
Master of Environmental Science, Universitas Indonesia
- Research focus
- Water quality, groundwater contamination and hydrogeology.
- Current strengths
- Hydrogeological assessment, land quality and remediation analysis.
- Reksar contribution
- Leads water-quality and contamination research that spans both laboratories.
- Groundwater contamination
- Hydrogeology
- Remediation
- Water quality risk
Maulana Ibrahim Rau
Co-Founder · Surface Water & Flood Risk Lead
Water resources specialist working across hydrology, hydraulics, flood modelling and geoinformatics.
Academic background
PhD Hydraulics & Water Management, Niigata University
- Research focus
- Surface-water systems, flood modelling and hydraulic analysis.
- Current strengths
- Flood-risk studies, water-resources engineering and geoinformatics.
- Reksar contribution
- Leads surface-water and flood-risk research through Catchment Lab.
- Hydrology
- Hydraulics
- Flood modelling
- Geoinformatics
Luthfan Harisan Jihadi
Co-Founder · Groundwater & Drought Risk Lead
Geological engineer who works with groundwater systems, drought risk and environmental data.
Academic background
Master’s study, Data Science, Institut Teknologi Bandung
- Research focus
- Groundwater systems, drought risk and environmental data.
- Current strengths
- Maps, geology and environmental records.
- Reksar contribution
- Leads groundwater and drought-risk research through Basin Lab.
- Drought risk
- Groundwater systems
- Spatial analysis
- Environmental data
Alfred Louise Hutomo
Co-Founder · Technology Lead
Software engineer who builds research websites, data systems and early tools.
Academic background
Bachelor of Information Technology, RMIT University
- Research focus
- Research websites, data systems and early tools.
- Current strengths
- Software engineering and putting research tools on the web.
- Reksar contribution
- Leads the digital systems used for data and research prototypes.
- Digital systems
- Research websites
- Web development
- Research prototypes
Selected Reksar outputs will be added as they are published.
See the research each person leads, or get in touch about working together.