Gianluca Botter
Full Professor
Address: Via Loredan, 20 - Padova
Phone: 049 8275434
E-mail: gianluca.botter@unipd.it
Scientific sector: ICAR/02 - MARITIME HYDRAULIC CONSTRUCTION AND HYDROLOGY
Gianluca Botter holds a degree in Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D in Environmental Modeling from the University of Padova, where he’s currently full professor.
He has contributed more than 90 papers in peer reviewed international journals including PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Research Communications, Earth’s Future (google scholar H-index=30).
He is Editor of the journal “Hydrological Processes” (Elsevier) and member of the Editorial Board of “Advances in Water Resources” (Wiley).
In 2017 he got an ERC Award from the European Union for the research project “DyNET: Dynamical river networks: climatic controls and biogeochemical function”.
His scientific interests include the characterization of river networks and streamflow regimes, the analysis of water quality patterns in space and time and the interactions between ecohydrological processes and anthropogenic activities, with particular emphasis on the effects of river regulation on freshwater.
