Paolo D’Odorico

Dr. D’Odorico is the Thomas J. Graff Professor of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Padova (Italy), has been postdoc at Texas A&M and Princeton, and professor at the University of Virginia, where he held the Ernest H. Ern Chair in Environmental Science. His research focuses on the role of hydrological processes in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and societies. Through field observations and modelling studies, he is studying mechanisms of desertification and factors contributing to ecosystem resilience at the desert margins. 

His current work focuses on water, food and energy security, the globalization of water, water equity and justice. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, edited "Dryland Ecohydrology" (Springer, 2006; 2019); co-authored "Noise Induced Phenomena in the Environmental Sciences" (Cambridge, 2011); "Elements of Physical Hydrology" (Hopkins Press, 2014) and Global Deforestation (Cambridge, 2016). He is serving as Editor of Reviews of Geophysics and serves on the Editorial Board of Drylands, Environmental Research Water, and Advances in Water Resources. He has received the Sustainability Science Award (ESA), Witherspoon Lecture (AGU), Hydrological Science Medal (AMS), the Dalton Medal (EGU) and the Creativity International Water Prize (Prince Sultan International Water Prize). He is a Fellow of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, AGU, AMS, AAAS and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti.