Andrea Castelletti

Andrea Castelletti is a professor of natural resources management and environmental systems analysis at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and an academic guest at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received an MSc degree in environmental engineering and a PhD in information engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1999 and 2005. He was a visiting scholar at Cornell University, ETH Zurich, Lancaster University, and University of Western Australia. From 2007 to 2015 he was adjunct professor at the Centre for Water Research of the University of Western Australia. He is the head of the Environmental Intelligence for Global Change Lab at Politecnico di Milano.
Dr Castelletti's research interests include water systems planning and control under uncertainty and risk, decision-making for complex engineering systems, big environmental data analytics and smart sensing, information theory and selection for environmental decision making. He is co-author of two international books on integrated water resource management, more than 180 publications in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. In 2009 he was awarded a senior fellowship by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, in 2010 an Early Career Excellence Award by the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, in 2013 the Italy-Canada Innovation prize, in 2016 the EFARRI award, and in 2018 he was Biennial Medalist for the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society.
Dr Castelletti serves the scientific community as the chair of the EGU Program Committees on water policy, management and operation and member of the ASCE/EWRI Environmental and Water Resources Systems Technical Committee (since 2011). He is the past chair and current deputy chair of the IFAC Technical Committee TC8.3 on Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems (2008-2014). He is associate editor of Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Environmental Modelling and Software, and Socio-Ecological Systems Modelling.