Professor of hydrology double-award winner

Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Professor of Hydrology at the Department of Earth Sciences and Director of the Centre for Natural Disaster Science, has recently won two very prestigious scientific awards within just a few days.

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Giuliano Di Baldasarre has been selected for the Witherspoon Lecture Award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s largest association of researchers in earth sciences, atmospheric sciences, oceonography, hydrology, planetary sciences and space physics, and has also been awarded the Plinius Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

“It is pleasing and rewarding to receive attention from the two largest organisations in earth sciences research. It constitutes an endorsement for many years of hard work,” he says.

This recognition not only means greater international visibility for Di Baldassarre, but it also means sharing the glory with his research teams at the Department of Earth Sciences and the Centre for Natural Disaster Science (CNDS).

“Receiving these awards will give us an extra energy boost in our day-to-day research. Moreover, international awards can help us play an important role in the advancement of research linked to the interaction between natural disasters and human societies.”

Interview conducted by Johan Ahlenius