Andrea Ficchì

Post Doc Research Fellow​

Andrea Ficchì is a post-doctoral researcher at the EI Lab at Politecnico di Milano. He received a MSc degree in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2013, after an internship at IRSTEA (now INRAE) in Montpellier and a visiting period at TU Delft on real-time control of water reservoirs using ensemble weather forecasts. He received a PhD in Hydrology from University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 2017, after working as a researcher at IRSTEA in Antony (France) on the development of hydrological models across sub-daily temporal scales for flood forecasting applications. From 2017 to 2021, he has worked as part of the FATHUM project at the University of Reading and as a visiting scientist at ECMWF, contributing to the use and evaluation of a global flood prediction system (the Copernicus EMS – Global Flood Awareness System) to support humanitarian early actions across sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Mozambique and Uganda. His main research areas include hydro-meteorological forecasts, decision-making under uncertainty, forecast-based action, hydrological modelling, African hydrology, and climate teleconnections.