Brunella Bonaccorso, RTD in Hydraulic constructions and Hydrology, Department of Engineering, University of Messina

Brunella Bonaccorso, RTD in Hydraulic constructions and Hydrology, Department of Engineering, University of Messina

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After graduating in Civil Engineering at the University of Catania (Italy), she received her PhD degree in Hydraulic Engineering in 2003. From May 2003 to September 2011 she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Catania (Italy), developing a research program titled “Models for drought identification and stochastic characterization and definition of drought mitigation measures in water supply systems”. Since October 2011 she is Assistant Professor of Hydrology and Hydraulic Constructions at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Messina (Italy), teaching graduate courses and carrying out research activities in the field of stochastic hydrology applied to the analysis of extreme hydrometeorological events. She collaborated to several national and European research projects focusing on drought analysis and management, such as: “Secheresse et Desertification dans le bassin Mediterranée, SEDEMED” – (European Programme INTERREG IIIb-MEDOCC) and “Mediterranean Drought Preparedness and Mitigation Planning, MEDROPLAN” (European Programme MEDA Water). She has been part of the Organizing Committee of  IAHS-STAHY Workshop on “Advances in statistical hydrology”, held in Taormina, 23-25 May 2010 and of the VI EWRA International Symposium “Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment”, held in Catania, 29 June -2 July 2011. Since 2014, she is Co-convener of the EGU General Assembly Session on “Drought and water scarcity: hydrological modeling and forecasting to improve water management”. 
She has written over 30 scientific papers and is the co-author of the books ""Methods and Tools for Drought Analysis and Management", Springer, and of the chapter “Methods for Drought Analysis and Forecasting” in Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Atmospheric and Earth Sciences (N. Balakrishnan, editor), John Wiley and Sons.

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Industry experience

Education: PhD

Seniority: Trainee, Intern

Years of experience: 10 to 20 years

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