Gabriele Villarini Editor

Gabriele 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 Executive 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. Gabriel Vecchi is Professor in the Department of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Since July 2021 he has been Director of the High Meadows Environmental Institute. He is also the Deputy Director of the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES), a joint institute between Princeton University and NOAA, and from July 2019 to July 2021 was its Director. Prior to coming to Princeton University in 2017, he was a Research Oceanographer and the Head of the Climate Variations and Predictability Group at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, New Jersey, where he was since 2003. His research focuses on understanding short- and long-term changes to the oceans and atmosphere, including the monsoons, El Niño, and the impact of climate on tropical cyclones, weather extremes, and global patterns of rainfall and drought. Enrico Scoccimarro is Senior Scientist at euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), and deputy director of the Climate Simulations and Predictions division (CMCC-CSP). He has 20 years of experience in climate modelling with a special focus on the coupling between the atmosphere and ocean components of General Circulation Models (GCMs). During this period, he has contributed to the development of several GCMs (e.g., INGV-SXG, CMCC-Med, CMCC-CM CMCC-CM2) and has performed a number of climate scenario simulations and projections participating to the different Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects (CMIP3, CMIP5, CMIP6) providing climate data for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports. He has been partner and WP leader in several international projects mainly dealing with high resolution modelling and impacts associated to extreme events. His main research interest is on extreme events such as Tropical Cyclones with particular focus on their interaction with the Climate System.