Andrea Rinaldo

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Birth date : 13.09.1954

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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

2021

The epidemicity index of recurrent SARS-CoV-2 infections

L. Mari; R. Casagrandi; E. Bertuzzo; D. Pasetto; S. Miccoli et al.

Nature Communications. 2021-05-12. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-021-22878-7.

Andrea Rinaldo

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Fields of expertise

Biography

Publications

Infoscience publications

Journal Articles

2021

The epidemicity index of recurrent SARS-CoV-2 infections

Range of reproduction number estimates for COVID-19 spread

Dynamic spatio-temporal patterns of metapopulation occupancy in patchy habitats

True scale-free networks hidden by finite size effects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conditions for transient epidemics of waterborne disease in spatially explicit systems

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

Evolving biodiversity patterns in changing river networks

On the probabilistic nature of the species-area relation

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

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)

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

2018

Estimating species distribution and abundance in river networks using environmental DNA

River landscapes and optimal channel networks

Epidemicity thresholds for water-borne and water-related diseases

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

Analytical flow duration curves for summer streamflow in Switzerland

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

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

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

2017

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

Entropy and optimality in river deltas

The scaling structure of the global road network

Demographic stochasticity and resource autocorrelation control biological invasions in heterogeneous landscapes

A generalized definition of reactivity for ecological systems and the problem of transient species dynamics

Integrated field, laboratory, and theoretical study of PKD spread in a Swiss prealpine river

Heterogeneity in schistosomiasis transmission dynamics

Young runoff fractions control streamwater age and solute concentration dynamics

Covariations in ecological scaling laws fostered by community dynamics

Using SAS functions and high-resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments

2016

On the probability of extinction of the Haiti cholera epidemic

Climate-driven endemic cholera is modulated by human mobility in a megacity

An epidemiological model for proliferative kidney disease in salmonid populations

Statistical characterization of spatiotemporal sediment dynamics in the Venice lagoon

Real-time projections of cholera outbreaks through data assimilation and rainfall forecasting

Reply to comment by Porporato and Calabrese on "Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes''

Field study on drainage densities and rescaled width functions in a high‐altitude alpine catchment

Hydrology and density feedbacks control the ecology of intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis across habitats in seasonal climates

Mobile phone data highlights the role of mass gatherings in the spreading of cholera outbreaks

Geomorphic controls on elevational gradients of species richness

2015

Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA

Conference Papers

2017

Incorporating the ecology of intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis into spatially explicit models of disease transmission in seasonal climates