Prof. Dr. Attilio Castellarin has served a full professor at the University of Bologna since 2017, and previously an associate professor (since September 2014). He earned his Ph.D. in water engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy) in 2001, with a post-doctoral fellowship in 2001–2002 at the University of Bologna (Italy). He obtained the National Academic Qualification for Associate Professorship and Full Professorship on 2 February 2013. He collaborates with USGS (US), TUW (AT), GFZ (DE), and Tufts University (US) within their training and scientific research programs. He has served as the local coordinator or principal investigator for several national and international competitive research grants, as the author and co-author of more than 100 papers indexed on Scopus and Web Of Sciences, and as editor in chief of the Hydrological Sciences Journal (IAHS). His research interests include hydrological predictions in ungauged basins; modeling, assessment, and mitigation of flood hazards and risks; 1D and 2D hydrodynamic modeling; regional frequency analysis of hydrological extremes; and anthropogenic and climatic effects on hydrological processes.
Prof. Günter Blöschl heads the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). He received a diploma in civil engineering and a Doctorate in hydrology. His research interests revolve around understanding hydrological extremes, including climate change effects. He is a strong advocate of bridging the gap between fundamental process understanding and the practice of water resources management. Among other duties, he has served as president of the European Geosciences Union and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. He is currently leading a Doctoral Program on water resource systems funded by the Austrian Science Foundation. He is a member of the Academies of Sciences in Austria, Germany, and the US.
Prof.Dr. Pierluigi Claps has been a full professor of water engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin since 2000. He earned an M.Sc. degree in civil engineering, with honors, in 1986 and a Ph.D. in hydrology from the University of Naples in 1990. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 papers, mainly related to statistics and watershed hydrology topics, published in referenced journals and in proceedings of national and international conferences. From 1990 to 2005, he was involved in the activities of the CNR-GNDCI (Italian Group for Prevention of Hydro-Geologic Disasters), working on topics related to flood risk estimation at a regional scale. Within GNDCI, in 2001, he was in charge of the research unit 1.54 at the Polytechnic University of Turin and in 1999, he became a member of the scientific committee, providing support to the coordination of Line #1 research. His research interests include regional statistical analysis of extreme rainfalls and floods; assessment of extreme thunderstorm hazard over large areas; radar and remote sensing applications for the assessment of the spatial distribution of extreme rainfall; parsimonious statistical methods for the representation of hydrological processes; climate change effects assessment in mountain regions; the effect of climatic factors on the mechanisms of flood formation; methods for water resources assessment at the regional scale; and regional analysis of flow duration curves.
Dr.Alberto Viglione has been a research fellow at the Vienna University of Technology since 2007. He graduated magna cum laude from the Polytechnic University of Turin in environmental engineering in 2002. In 2003-2004, he received a scholarship to study the physical and hydrological characterization of river catchments in Piedmont, financed by Regione
Piemonte (Italy). In 2004-2007, he carried out his Ph.D. studies in the Hydraulic
Department of the Polytechnic University of Turin. In 2009, he received the AMGA prize for
the best Ph.D. thesis on water resources. He has authored or co-authored several papers and book chapters and has organized sessions at conferences such as the EGU and AGU. He has been involved in several research and consulting projects related to hydrological modeling, specifically focusing on flood frequency analysis, in Italy, Austria, and at the European level. He developed software for regional frequency analysis in the R environment, which is available
online. He acts as associate editor and as a reviewer for several journals in the area of hydrology. His research objectives include understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of climatic, hydrologic, and human processes in river basins, with the goal of deciphering the implications of these dynamics on the probabilities of extreme hydrological events (in particular, river floods) and their evolution in space and time.
Prof. Dr. Richard Vogel is currently an emeritus professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, after 33 years on the faculty at Tufts University. He is the former Director of the interdisciplinary graduate program in water: systems, science and society. In 2020, he was elected as Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers “for a lifetime of fundamental contributions to stochastic hydrology and its novel applications”. In 2020, he also received the Ven Te Chow Award from the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute for “his extensive contributions in the fields of probabilistic and stochastic methods in hydrology, environmental engineering and water resources.” In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of AGU. In 2017 he was awarded the Maass-White visiting fellowship from the Institute for Water Resources of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 2009, he was awarded the Julian Hinds Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for his advancement of the practice and science of water resource planning and management. He was a contributing editor for the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management for over a decade. He was editor of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Water Resource Monograph series and editor of the AGU National Report to the IUGG–Contributions in Hydrology. His research interests include stochastic and statistical hydrology, environmental statistics, and natural hazards.
