Andrea Rinaldo

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Birth date: 13.09.1954

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GR C1 575 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne

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Fields of expertise

Eco-Hydrology
Water resources management
Geomorphology
Ecological patterns
River networks as ecological corridors
Spatially explicit ecological modeling
Basin-scale transport phenomena
Water borne diseases
Epidemic cholera and endemic schistosomaïoses transmission
Rainfall-runoff transformations

Biography

ANDREA RINALDO (Profile)
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) (19851992)
Director, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Università di Trento (Italy) (19891992)
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) (19931997)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A & M University (TX,USA) (19951998)
Director, International Centre for Hydrology "Dino Tonini", Università di Padova (Italy) (19931998, 2000-2007)
Visiting Professor & Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, USA) (19932001)
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-)

Publications

Infoscience publications

Journal Articles

2024

Epidemicity indices and reproduction numbers from infectious disease data in connected human populations

C. Trevisin; L. Mari; M. Gatto; A. Rinaldo

Infectious Disease Modelling. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.idm.2024.04.011.

Andrea Rinaldo

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Fields of expertise

Biography

Publications

Infoscience publications

Journal Articles

2024

Epidemicity indices and reproduction numbers from infectious disease data in connected human populations

Data-driven statistical optimization of a groundwater monitoring network

Morphometry of Tidal Meander Cutoffs Indicates Similarity to Fluvial Morphodynamics

2023

Short-term dynamics of drainage density based on a combination of channel flow state surveys and water level measurements

Spatially explicit effective reproduction numbers from incidence and mobility data

Comparison of Three Imputation Methods for Groundwater Level Timeseries

Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations

2022

Seeing the forest for the trees through metabolic scaling

Optimal control of the spatial allocation of COVID-19 vaccines: Italy as a case study

Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe (1942–2022): A review of a pathbreaking academic career combining chance and self-organization

Toward a Closure of Catchment Mass Balance: Insight on the Missing Link From a Vegetated Lysimeter

Applying the Principal Component Analysis for a deeper understanding of the groundwater system: case study of the Bacchiglione Basin (Veneto, Italy)

Applicability of the landscape evolution model in the absence of rills

The intrusion of ecology into hydrology and morphodynamics

Ecohydrology 2.0

Phloem water isotopically different to xylem water: Potential causes and implications for ecohydrological tracing

Epidemicity of cholera spread and the fate of infection control measures

Persistence of amphibian metapopulation occupancy in dynamic wetlandscapes

2021

A Note on the Role of Seasonal Expansions and Contractions of the Flowing Fluvial Network on Metapopulation Persistence

Scaling of joint mass and metabolism fluctuations in in silico cell-laden spheroids

Characterizing human mobility patterns in rural settings of sub-Saharan Africa

The epidemicity index of recurrent SARS-CoV-2 infections

Tracing and Closing the Water Balance in a Vegetated Lysimeter

Assessing the long-term sustainability of the groundwater resources in the Bacchiglione basin (Veneto, Italy) with the Mann-Kendall test: suggestions for higher reliability

True scale-free networks hidden by finite size effects

Dynamic spatio-temporal patterns of metapopulation occupancy in patchy habitats

Range of reproduction number estimates for COVID-19 spread

On the fractal structure of soil moisture fields

2020

Tree water deficit and dynamic source water partitioning

Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories

Estimation spatiale des précipitations et assimilation de données de débit pour la prévision hydrologique en milieu alpin

The geography of COVID-19 spread in Italy and implications for the relaxation of confinement measures

Biological fluid dynamics of airborne COVID-19 infection

Generation and application of river network analogues for use in ecology and evolution

Transport and Water Age Dynamics in Soils: A Comparative Study of Spatially Integrated and Spatially Explicit Models

Assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Switzerland

Earth and field observations underpin metapopulation dynamics in complex landscapes: Near-term study on carabids

Spread and dynamics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy: Effects of emergency containment measures

SESTET: A spatially explicit stream temperature model based on equilibrium temperature

2019

Comparative analysis of time-based and quadrat sampling in seasonal population dynamics of intermediate hosts of human schistosomes

Space and time predictions of schistosomiasis snail host population dynamics across hydrologic regimes in Burkina Faso

Stochastic analysis of groundwater temperature timeseries for characterizing check dams efficiency: case study on a Managed Aquifer Recharge site (Veneto, Italy)

Generalized size scaling of metabolic rates based on single-cell measurements with freshwater phytoplankton

Allometric Scaling of physiologically-relevant organoids

Effects of altered river network connectivity on the distribution of Salmo trutta: Insights from a metapopulation model

Modelled effects of prawn aquaculture on poverty alleviation and schistosomiasis control

Conditions for transient epidemics of waterborne disease in spatially explicit systems

Velocities, Residence Times, Tracer Breakthroughs in a Vegetated Lysimeter: A Multitracer Experiment

Evolving biodiversity patterns in changing river networks

Estimation of streamflow recession parameters: New insights from an analytic streamflow distribution model

Rainfall as a driver of epidemic cholera: Comparative model assessments of the effect of intra-seasonal precipitation events

A minimalist model of extinction and range dynamics of virtual mountain species driven by warming temperatures

On the probabilistic nature of the species-area relation

2018

Estimating species distribution and abundance in river networks using environmental DNA

Integration of satellite remote sensing data in ecosystem modelling at local scales: Practices and trends

Catchment drainage network scaling laws found experimentally in overland flow morphologies

The potential impact of case-area targeted interventions in response to cholera outbreaks: A modeling study

River networks as ecological corridors: A coherent ecohydrological perspective

Field migration rates of tidal meanders recapitulate fluvial morphodynamics

Analytical flow duration curves for summer streamflow in Switzerland

Near real-time forecasting for cholera decision making in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew

Epidemicity thresholds for water-borne and water-related diseases

River landscapes and optimal channel networks

Spread of proliferative kidney disease in fish along stream networks: A spatial metacommunity framework

2017

Classification and prediction of river network ephemerality and its relevance for waterborne disease epidemiology