Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Fellow: Andrea Rinaldo, EPF/UP
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2021-04-12

Andrea Rinaldo gave this presentation on "Reflected in Water: Notes on Development, resilience & Inequalities" on March 31, 2021. He is a Professor of Hydrology & Water Resources at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy. He received his PhD (1983) in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. He is world-renowned as an authority and co-founder of the field of Ecohydrology and for his theory of self-organized fractal river networks and efficient transport networks and as ecological corridors. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. National Academy of Science, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is also the recipient of the Horton Award from the American Geophysical Union, and the Dalton Medal from the European Geoscience Unions.

ABSTRACT: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NADVF/Events/reflected-in-water-notes-on-development-resilience-inequalities

BIO: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NADVF/Faculty/andrea-rinaldo

More about Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Fellows: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NADVF

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