Professor ceesimo
ACCEPTING PHD STUDENTS
Faculty & Department
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Florence, Italy
Bio
Simone Fatichi received his BSc and MSc (cum laude) in Environmental Engineering at the University of Firenze (Italy). In 2010, he obtained an International PhD title (outstanding evaluation) joint between the T.U. Braunschweig (Germany) and University of Firenze (Italy). Subsequently, he was a researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Institute of Environmental Engineering, before starting as associate professor at National University of Singapore in 2020. In 2024 he has been promoted to full professor. He was recipient of the prestigious Antonio Feltrinelli Giovani prize in 2019, of the Hydrologic Sciences Early Career award of the American Geophysical Union in 2020, and of the NUS College of Design and Engineering Young Researcher award in 2023. He is mainly working on hydrology, biogeosciences, and climate change related topics addressing questions associated to global change and its impacts on vegetation functioning, water and soil resources, carbon cycle, and ecosystem services in natural and urban environments.
Contact Information
- Distributed hydrological modeling and hydrological transport processes
- Terrestrial ecohydrology and carbon cycle modeling
- Plant physiology and tree-leaf hydraulic modeling
- Modeling of soil biogeochemistry and soil physics
- Urban ecohydrology and urban climate modeling
- Stochastic weather and rainfall generators
- Downscaling and climate change impacts on hydrology
- Hydro-geomorphology in a changing climate
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