Burlando, Paolo
Professor
Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
1985: Fellowship, “International Advanced Course on Water Resources Management”, Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia. 1986-1989: Ph.D. student at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 1990-1996: Research Associate at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, tenured position after 1994. 1994-1996: Professor in charge, “Basin and river training”, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 1997- today: Professor of “Hydrology and Water Resources Management”, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Research Interest
He actively carries out research as individual and research group leader in the fields of water resources planning and management, rainfall field analysis (mathematical models of precipitation, scaling properties of rainfall fields) hydrologic extreme forecasting and prediction (real-time prediction of temporal rainfall, flood forecasting and real-time rainfall prediction, design criteria of hydrological forecasting systems, extreme value analysis in the frequency domain), global change and water resources (downscaling of climate scenarios from Global Circulation Models, analysis of long-term hydrological time-series, impact of global change on the hydrological cycle and on water resources systems, impact of global change on urban drainage systems design), water resources in mountainous regions, hydrology and ecology interactions in mountain floodplains.
