Andrea Rinaldo - Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Professors - Purdue University

Andrea Rinaldo is a professor emeritus, honorary professor at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the former professor of hydrology and water resources and director of the Laboratory of Ecohydrology.

Rinaldo received his PhD (1983) in civil engineering at Purdue University. He is world-renowned as an authority and co-founder of the field of ecohydrology and for his theory of self-organized fractal river networks and efficient transport networks. He is a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. National Academy of Science, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the recipient of the Horton Award from the American Geophysical Union and the Dalton Medal from the European Geoscience Unions. In 2023, he received The Stockholm Water Prize, the world’s most prestigious water award.

Rinaldo worked with faculty members from the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering and was hosted by Suresh Rao, professor emeritus of civil engineering, and Satish Ukkusuri, the Hubert and Audrey Kleasen Professor in Civil Engineering.