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Andrea Rinaldo Laboratory of Ecohydrology Director birth date: 13.09.1954 web site: http://echo.epfl.ch/ office(s): GRC1575 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 38034,33775,33725 BIOGRAPHY ANDREA RINALDO born in Venice (Italy) on 13/09/1954 Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Director, Laboratory of Ecohydrology ECHO/ISTE/ENAC Facultè ENAC, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne GR C1 565 Station 2 CH-1015 Lausanne (CH) e-mail: andrea.rinaldo@epfl.ch RESEARCH INTERESTS Transport phenomena in the hydrological cycle. Hydrogeomorphology. Ecohydrology. Stochastic Modeling of Natural Phenomena. Networks in Nature. Scaling in Ecosystems. Ecohydrology. River networks as ecological corridors for species, populations, pathogens. EDUCATION: Ph.D. 1983 Purdue University, Fluid Mechanics Dott. Ing. (BS+MS) 1978 Università di Padova, Civil Engineering (110/110 summa cum laude) AWARDS and FELLOWHIPS (excerpta): E. Munson Award, Purdue University, 1982 P. Gatto Research Award, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome (1984) Fellow, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice (1995), Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Padova (2003), The Water Academy, Oslo (1999), Istituto Lombardo di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Milan (2007) Hydrology Section Award (Horton Award), American Geophysical Union (1999) Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2000) Dalton Medal, European Geosciences Union (2005) Foreign Member, US National Academy of Engineering, Washington (2006) Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm (2006) ERC Advanced Grant Fellowship (2008) Name Lectures (excerpta): DALTON Lecture, Vienna (2005); KOVACS Lecture, Paris (2006) ; MOORE Lecture, Charlottesville (2006) ; BERNHARD Lecture, Stockholm (2008) ; BOUSSINESQ Lecture, Amsterdam (2008) ; ACADEMIC RECORD (excerpta) Full Professor, Chair of Hydrology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Università di Trento (Italy) (1985–1992) Director, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Università di Trento (Italy) (1989–1992) Chair of Hydraulics, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica, Marittima e Geotecnica, Università di Padova (Italy) (1992-) Director, Istituto di Idraulica "G. Poleni" Università di Padova (Italy) (1993–1997) Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A & M University (TX,USA) (1995–1998) Director, International Centre for Hydrology "Dino Tonini", Università di Padova (Italy) (1993–1998, 2000-2007) Visiting Professor & Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, USA) (1993–2001) Visiting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University (NJ,USA) (2004-2006) Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Faculté ENAC, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (CH), Director, Laboratory of Ecohydrology ECHO/ISTE/ENAC (2008-) MAIN PUBLICATIONS Journal Paper 2011 E. Bertuzzo, L. Mari, L. Righetto, M. Gatto, R. Casagrandi, M. Blokesch, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Prediction of the spatial evolution and effects of control measures for the unfolding Haiti cholera outbreak, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 38, pp. L06403, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Rinaldo, M. Blokesch, E. Bertuzzo, L. Mari, L. Righetto, M. Murray, M. Gatto, R. Casagrandi and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, A transmission model of the 2010 cholera epidemic in haiti, Annals of internal medicine, Vol. 155, Nr. 6, pp. 403-4, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, K.K. Caylor and A. Rinaldo, Metabolic principles of river basin organization, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 108, Nr. 29, pp. 11751-11755, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] F. Altermatt, A. Bieger, F. Carrara, A. Rinaldo and M. Holyoak, Effects of Connectivity and Recurrent Local Disturbances on Community Structure and Population Density in Experimental Metacommunities, Plos One, Vol. 6, Nr. 4, pp. e19525, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Konar, C. Dalin, S. Suweis, N. Hanasaki, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Water for food: The global virtual water trade network, Water Resources Research, Vol. 47, pp. W005520, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] G. Botter, E. Bertuzzo and A. Rinaldo, Catchment residence and travel time distributions: The master equation, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 38, pp. L11403, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Muneepeerakul, S. Azaele, S.A. Levin, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Evolution of dispersal in explicitly spatial metacommunities, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 269, Nr. 1, pp. 256-265, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] E. Bertuzzo, S. Suweis, L. Mari, A. Maritan, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 108, Nr. 11, pp. 4346-4351, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] L. Mari, E. Bertuzzo, R. Casagrandi, M. Gatto, S.A. Levin, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Hydrologic controls and anthropogenic drivers of the zebra mussel invasion of the Mississippi-Missouri river system, Water Resources Research, Vol. 47, Nr. 3, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] L. Righetto, E. Bertuzzo, R. Casagrandi, M. Gatto, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Modelling human movement in cholera spreading along fluvial systems, Ecohydrology, Vol. 4, pp. 49-55, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Suweis, A.M. Porporato, A. Rinaldo and A. Maritan, Prescription-induced jump distributions in multiplicative Poisson processes, Physical Review E, Vol. 83, Nr. 6, pp. 061119, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Suweis, M. Konar, C. Dalin, N. Hanasaki, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Structure and Controls of the Global Virtual Water Trade Network, Geophysical Research Letter, Vol. 38, pp. L08405, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] C. Tobin, L. Nicotina, M. Parlange, A. Berne and A. Rinaldo, Improved interpolation of meteorological forcings and hydrologic implications for a Swiss alpine region, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 401, Nr. 1-2, pp. 77-89, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] L. Nicotina, D.G. Tarboton, T.K. Tesfa and A. Rinaldo, Hydrologic controls on equilibrium soil depths, Water Resources Research, Vol. 47, pp. W04517, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] L. Mari, E. Bertuzzo, R. Casagrandi, M. Gatto, S.A. Levin, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Hydrologic controls and anthropogenic drivers of the zebra mussel invasion of the Mississippi-Missouri river system, Water Resources Research, Vol. 47, pp. W03523, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2010 A. D'Alpaos, S. Lanzoni, M. Marani and A. Rinaldo, On the tidal prism–channel area relations, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, Nr. F1, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Azaele, R. Muneepeerakul, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Inferring plant ecosystem organization from species occurrences, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 262, Nr. 2, pp. 323-329, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Lovison, G. Manzini, A. Maritan, M. Putti and A. Rinaldo, Spanning traceroutes over modular networks and general scaling degree distributions, Physical Review E, Vol. 81, Nr. 3, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] G. Botter, S. Basso, A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Natural streamflow regime alterations: Damming of the Piave river basin (Italy), Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, Nr. 6, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] J.J. Mcdonnell, K. Mcguire, P. Aggarwal, K.J. Beven, D. Biondi, G. Destouni, S. Dunn, A. James, J. Kirchner, P. Kraft, S. Lyon, P. Maloszewski, B. Newman, L. Pfister, A. Rinaldo, A. Rodhe, T. Sayama, J. Seibert, K. Solomon, C. Soulsby, M. Stewart, D. Tetzlaff, C. Tobin, P. Troch, M. Weiler, A. Western, A. Wörman and S. Wrede, How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis, Hydrological Processes, Vol. 24, Nr. 12, pp. 1745-1754, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] G. Botter, N.B. Basu, S. Zanardo, P.S.C. Rao and A. Rinaldo, Stochastic modeling of nutrient losses in streams: Interactions of climatic, hydrologic, and biogeochemical controls, Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, Nr. 8, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] J.R. Banavar, M.E. Moses, J.H. Brown, J. Damuth, A. Rinaldo, R.M. Sibly and A. Maritan, A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, Nr. 36, pp. 15816-15820, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] M.J. Todd, R. Muneepeerakul, D. Pumo, S. Azaele, F. Miralles-Wilhelm, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Hydrological drivers of wetland vegetation community distribution within Everglades National Park, Florida, Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 33, Nr. 10, pp. 1279-1289, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Muneepeerakul, S. Azaele, G. Botter, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Daily streamflow analysis based on a two-scaled gamma pulse model, Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, Nr. 11, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] N.B. Basu, G. Destouni, J.W. Jawitz, S.E. Thompson, N.V. Loukinova, A. Darracq, S. Zanardo, M. Yaeger, M. Sivapalan, A. Rinaldo and P.S.C. Rao, Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 37, Nr. 23, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Marani, A. D'Alpaos, S. Lanzoni, L. Carniello and A. Rinaldo, The importance of being coupled: Stable states and catastrophic shifts in tidal biomorphodynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, Nr. F4, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. D'Odorico, F. Laio, A. Porporato, L. Ridolfi, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ecohydrology of Terrestrial Ecosystems, BioScience, Vol. 60, Nr. 11, pp. 898-907, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] G. Botter, E. Bertuzzo and A. Rinaldo, Transport in the hydrologic response: Travel time distributions, soil moisture dynamics, and the old water paradox, Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, Nr. 3, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Azaele, A. Maritan, E. Bertuzzo, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Stochastic dynamics of cholera epidemics, Physical Review E, Vol. 81, Nr. 5, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Konar, R. Muneepeerakul, S. Azaele, E. Bertuzzo, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Potential impacts of precipitation change on large-scale patterns of tree diversity, Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, Nr. 11, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Suweis, A. Rinaldo, S. Van der Zee, D. Edoardo, A. Maritan and A. Porporato, Stochastic modeling of soil salinity, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 37, Nr. L07404, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Ceola, G. Botter, E. Bertuzzo, A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Comparative study of ecohydrological streamflow probability distributions, Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, pp. -, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Suweis, E. Bertuzzo, G. Botter, A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Impact of stochastic fluctuations in storage-discharge relations on streamflow distributions, Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, Nr. 3, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] E. Bertuzzo, R. Casagrandi, M. Gatto, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, On Spatially Explicit Models of Cholera Epidemics, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE , Vol. 7, Nr. 43, pp. 321-333, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2009 G. Botter, A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, Nonlinear storage-discharge relations and catchment streamflow regimes, Water Resources Research, Vol. 45, pp. W10427, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] G. Botter, E. Milan, E. Bertuzzo, S. Zanardo, M. Marani and A. Rinaldo, Inferences from catchment-scale tracer circulation experiments, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 369, Nr. 3-4, pp. 368-380, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] E. Bertuzzo, R. Muneepeerakul, H.J. Lynch, W.F. Fagan, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo, On the geographic range of freshwater ï¬�sh in river basins, Water Resources Research, Vol. 45, pp. W11420, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. D'Alpaos, S. Lanzoni, M. Marani and A. Rinaldo, On the O'Brien-Jarrett-Marchi law, Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche E Naturali, Vol. 20, Nr. 3, pp. 225-236, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Convertino, R. Muneepeerakul, S. Azaele, E. Bertuzzo, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, On neutral metacommunity patterns of river basins at different scales of aggregation, Water Resources Research, Vol. 45, pp. W08424, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Azaele, R. Muneepeerakul, A. Marian, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Predicting spacial similarity of freshwater fish biodiversity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106, Nr. 17, pp. 7058-7062, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] F. Simini, A. Rinaldo and A. Maritan, Universal scaling of optimal current distributions in transportation networks, Physical Review E, Vol. 79, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, R. Muneepeerakul, E. Bertuzzo, S.A. Levin and A. Rinaldo, River Networks as Ecological Corridors: a Complex Systems Perspective for Integrating Hydrologic, Geomorphological and Ecologic Dynamics, Water Resources Research, Vol. 45, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] Ph.D. Thesis 2011 S. Suweis and A. Rinaldo, Ecohydrological Footprints, Ph.D. Thesis, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] Book 2009 A. Rinaldo, Il governo dell'acqua. Ambiente naturale e Ambiente costruito, Venice : Marsilio Editore, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Rinaldo, Il governo dell'acqua. Riflessioni su Ambiente naturale e Ambiente costruito,  : Marsilio, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] Complete publication list (up till 2009) Prof. A. Rinaldo complete publication list

Teaching Environmental Sciences and Engineering Fourier analysis and boundary value problems [en] Hydrology for engineer [en] (SGM SSIE SGC) Water resources engineering [en] (SMX SEME SSIE SGC) Water, sand, stone and asphalt: Venezia [en] Phd programs Environment Civil and Environmental Engineering Phd Students Carrara Francesco Ceola Serena Giometto Andrea Queloz Pierre Claude Jean Righetto Lorenzo Tobin Cara POST DOC Enrico BERTUZZO Lorenzo MARI Ludovico NICOTINA