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Laboratory of Ecohydrology

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The Laboratory of Ecohydrology (ECHO) at EPFL focuses on understanding and modeling river networks as ecological corridors for species migration and disease spread. Their research combines laboratory, field work, and theoretical modeling to develop an integrated ecohydrological framework. ECHO investigates the spatial ecology of species, biodiversity in river basins, population dynamics, biological invasions along waterways, and the spread of waterborne diseases. They explore how the physical environment affects biodiversity, species invasions, survival, extinction, and waterborne disease infection spreads. ECHO collaborates on interdisciplinary studies such as metapopulation persistence, fish diversity patterns, zebra mussel invasion, kidney disease in fish, species distribution in river networks, and microbial co-occurrence networks.

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Andrea Rinaldo

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I was born in Padova, Italy, in 1986. After high school, I started the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Padova (Bachelor and Master), where I followed the 'soil protection' curriculum. During my Master studies I spent a semester as Erasmus student at Wageningen University (Wageningen, the Netherlands) to follow courses in Hydrology. After graduation, I decided to bring my education further and I started a Ph.D. at the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Padova. My Ph.D. thesis focused on hydrologic transport and travel time distributions at the catchment scale. My contribution to the subject included both new theoretical formulations and extensive numerical applications to real catchments. During my Ph.D., I also spent 7 months as visiting research fellow at Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, USA). Since I arrived at EPFL as post-doc in 2015, I started being involved in field and experimental activities, which allowed me to learn about practical experimental problems. In 2017 I had the opportunity to by hired by the ECHO laboratory as a permanent scientist, conducting research in the field of catchment hydrology.

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