BOTTER GIANLUCA

CURRICULUM VITAE of GIANLUCA BOTTER

• PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Botter Gianluca
Date of birth: February, 28, 1976
Nationality: Italian
Researcher unique identifier: 0000-0003-0576-8847 (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0576-8847)
URL for web site: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/G_Botter

• EDUCATION
2005 PhD in Hydrodynamics and Environmental Modeling
University of Padova, Italy (PhD Supervisor: Andrea Rinaldo)
2001 BSc and MSc Master Degree in Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

• CURRENT POSITION
2019 - present Full Professor (Professore Ordinario Confermato SSD ICAR/02), University of Padova, Italy

• PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2008 – 2014 Assistant Professor (Ricercatore Universitario Confermato SSD ICAR/02), University of Padova, Italy
2014 – 2019 Associate Professor with tenure (Professore Associato Confermato SSD ICAR/02),
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

• FELLOWSHIPS
2005 – 2006 Visiting Research Associate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, USA
2006 – 2007 Post-doctoral fellow, Department IMAGE, University of Padova, Italy
2008 Research fellow, Department IMAGE, University of Padova, Italy

• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE and PHD STUDENTS
Supervision of 60 Master Students in Civil and Environmental Engineering; Supervision of 13 PhD Students in Italy, Switzerland and US (4 ongoing, 2 within an EU-ITN Marie Curie action).

• TEACHING ACTIVITIES (as MAIN TEACHER)
2011 – Hydrology, Bachelor Degree in Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
2007 – Water resources management, M.Sc. Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
2007 – 2011 Stochastic processes, Doctoral School in Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
2012 – 2018 Statistics and data analysis, Doctoral School in Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

• BIBLIOMETRY
More than 90 published papers in major peer reviewed international journals including PNAS (IF=9.8), Applied Energy (IF = 8.6), Earth's Future (IF = 6.2) and Geophysical Research Letters (IF=4.2). 21 papers as first author, 40 as last (main) author. Google scholar H index = 35 (3500 citations)

• RESEARCH PROJECTS
He has been involved as PI or co-PI in several national/international research projects founded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research, the Italian Research Council, the European Research council and the European Community, including the following:
- National Research Projects (PRIN), funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, “Analysis of flow and transport processes at the hillslope scale” (80 keuro), co-PI and coordinator of the University of Padova Research Unit (2010 - 2013);
- Italian Ministry of Education grant (ex-60% MIUR) “Eco-hydrological approach for quantifying water in natural and anthropogenic rivers” (10 keuro), PI (2009 - 2011);
- University Research Grant “Impact of hydrologic regimes on trophic dynamics in river ecosystems” (56 keuro), PI (2010 - 2012);
- ex-60% MIUR “Memory functions for modelling transport processes at catchment scale” (10 keuro), PI (2013-2015);
- EU-ITN Marie Curie training network ADVOCATE (800 keuro), associate partner (2013-2015);
- SNSF project “RIPARIAN” (280 keuro), co-PI (2013-2017);
- EU-ITN Marie Curie training network “INSPIRATION” (500 keuro), associate partner (2016-2020);
- ERC-Consolidator Grant “DyNET” (2,000 keuros), PI (2018-2023).

• COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2018 – Editor, Hydrological Processes, Wiley, USA
2011 – Editorial Board, Advances in Water Resources, Elsevier, USA
2013 – Review Board of PNAS, Nature Climate Change, PRSA, Geophysical Research Letters
2012 – Review Panel Member, Swiss National Science Foundation,Switzerland
2012 – Review Panel Member, Fond National de la Recherche, Luxembourg
2010 – Review panel member, Italian Ministry of Education, Italy

• MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2006 – Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Germany
2008 – Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), USA
2009 – Member of the Hydraulics Italian Association (GII), Italy

• MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Prof. Mario Schirmer, Hydrogeology and flow regimes, Dept. of Water Resources and Drinking Water, EAWAG, Zurich, Switzerland;
Prof. Suresh Rao, Wetland dynamics and solute transport, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Purdue University, USA;
Proff. Chris Soulsby and Doerthe Tetzlaff, Fish migration and flow regimes, Northern Rivers Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK;
Prof. Kevin McGuire, Biogeochemical cycling in forested catchments, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA;
Prof. Jean Braun, Erosion rates in bedrock rivers, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Potzdam, Germany.

• PRIZES/AWARDS
2010: TORRICELLI PRIZE as best under-34 Italian researcher in the fields of hydrology and hydraulics, National Hydraulics Society (GII), Roma, Italy;
2011: OUTSTANDING NOMINATION AWARD for Excellence in Refereeing (Water Resources Research), American Geophysical Union, USA;
2013: OUTSTANDING REVIEWER AWARD for Advances in Water Resources, Elsevier, USA;
2018: ERC (EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL) AWARD: Dynamical River Network: climatic controls and biogeochemical function.

• MAJOR BREAKTHROUGHS and RESEARCH IMPACT
A major achievement of the research activity concerns the development of a novel classification of flow regimes and the analysis of the related implications for flood frequency, sediment transport, erosional rates and sensitivity to climate/environmental change. Two types of regimes with distinct temporal dynamics, a different sensitivity to hydroclimatic patterns and diverse potential to flooding and erosion were identified based on quantifiable rainfall and landscape attributes.

A second breakthrough relates to the study of flow and transport processes at catchment scale. I have developed a novel theory for the spatially integrated description of transport processes in complex heterogeneous domains, which provides a theoretical basis for the parsimonious and consistent modelling of water fluxes and solute concentration in rivers. Such a theory gave rise to a new class of models based on the concept of “dynamical travel time distributions”, which is becoming increasingly widespread in the literature.

• INVITED PRESENTATION AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
The visibility of my research activity within the scientific community is witnessed by a number of invited talks at national and international conferences, including the following:

Characterizing spatial and temporal patterns of stream network dynamics, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, US, 2020.
What do they have in common? Hydrologic drivers of streamflow correlation and spatial patterns of flow regimes, 14th General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria 2018;
Age distributions to model river hydrochemistry, theory and lessons learned from 5 years of applications, Integrated Hydrosystem Modelling Conference, Tübingen, Germany, 2018;
Modeling river hydrochemistry through dynamical traveltime distributions: theoretical foundations and lessons learned from 5 years of applications, catchment Science Symposium @ the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, New Orleans (LU), US, 2017
Modeling river hydrochemistry through dynamical travel time distributions: theoretical foundations and applications, Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Bates College, Lewistone (ME), US, 2017.
Freshwater, Energy Production and Ecosystem Services of River Networks, International Conference “Freshwater & Culture” @ EXPO2015: Feeding the Plant – Energy for life, Milano, Italy, 2015.
StorAGE Selection Functions: a new tool for characterizing dispersion processes and catchment scale solute transport, 11th General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, 2015.
Modeling river hydrochemistry using dynamic travel time distributions, 11th General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, 2015.