Gabriele VillariniGabriele Villarini is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, and Director of IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2008 and his Execuive MBA in 2018 from the University of Iowa. His research interests focus on flood hydrology, hydroclimatology, and climate predictions and projections. He has received a number of awards, including the "Hydrological Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award" by the European Geosciences Union (2013), and the James B. Macelwane Medal by the American Geophysical Union (2016). He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2016). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, including articles in Nature, Science, Nature Climate Change, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Advances in Water Resources. He served as a member of the U.S.-CLIVAR Working Group on Hurricanes and Climate. Read More Read Less