13. Prof. Andrea Rinaldo

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Andrea Rinaldo of EPFL and Università di Padova. Andrea was the 2005 John Dalton medallist of the EGU and the 2023 Stockholm Water Prize laureate. He is interviewed by Professor Keith Beven at EPFL, Switzerland, March 1, 2023.The original YouTube video can be found here.Timestamps:0:00:00 Start0:00:30 Introduction by Keith Beven0:01:16 Family background; 1966 Venice flood; studying Hydraulic Engineering in Padua0:05:18 PhD at Purdue University (USA)0:09:28 Return to Italy and University of Padua0:12:00 Appointed Full Professor at Trento at age 300:13:37 First encounter with Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe0:16:17 Ignacio’s influence on Italian hydrology0:17:39 Collaboration with Ignacio at MIT and Iowa0:18:58 Meeting Jack Kennedy in Iowa0:20:33 Geomorphological Unit Hydrograph; Scale Problems meeting in Caracas0:21:54 First WRR paper with Alessandro Marani on catchment-scale solute transport0:24:33 Fractal river basins book0:26:34 Summer schools at Venice Academy of Sciences and Arts; Per Bak and self-organised criticality0:30:33 Meeting Luna Leopold; river networks; minimum energy dissipation0:38:15 Serendipity in research; ecohydrology of networks; biological invasions and biodiversity models0:43:05 EPFL and ERC grant0:45:40 Zebra mussels in the Mississippi0:48:22 Network-conditioned disease propagation0:50:20 Predicting cholera in Hawaii0:57:44 Predicting COVID spread in Italy0:59:29 Residence times of water in catchments1:02:36 Working with younger researchers1:04:20 Awards1:06:21 Playing rugby for Italy1:11:25 Why hydrology is exciting1:12:27 Closure1:12:42 Stockholm Water PrizeLicense: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0Podcast: Pau Wiersma