Paolo BenettinI 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.
Cara Christine TobinCARA C. TOBIN, PE
Civil Engineer
EDUCATION
PhD in Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Fulbright Fellowship
01/2007-present
Master's in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Recipient
06/2001
Bachelor's in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow
06/1999
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, MINERVE2011
Research on Predicting floods and managing hydropower in the Swiss Alps. Project includes improving knowledge of hydrological processes and conducting uncertainty analysis.
10/2007 - present
Asian Development Bank / World Bank, Baku, Azerbaijan
Environmental engineering specialist in charge of reviewing environmental aspects of water supply and wastewater discharge designs. Environmental Assessments Performed and managed the local environmental, social and resettlement specialists.
02/2009 - 07/2009
Asian Development Bank / World Bank, Yerevan, Armenia
Environmental engineering specialist for the assessment of water supply designs. Performed Environmental Assessments and Resettlement due diligence.
01/2008 - 04/2008
Temple University, Department of Civil Engineering, Philadelphia, USA
Adjunct Professor for Environmental Engineering,
Introduction to the Environment and Environmental Engineering
10/2005-06/2006
CH2M HILL, Environmental Engineering Consultancy, Philadelphia, USA
Project leader for river discharge ammonia toxicity study
Engineer in charge of over $ 100,000 in WWTP design upgrades
10/2004-06/2006
MWH Ltd., Environmental Engineering Consultancy, Christchurch, NZ and Brisbane, AU
Lead engineer for major hydraulic components of a $ 150 million wastewater and desalination project
Head shape for a dozen water and groundwater projects
02/2003-09/2004
Kennedy / Jenks Consultants, Civil Engineering Consultancy, San Francisco, USA
Environmental engineer in charge of Drinking Water Source Assessments and water quality sampling programs
08/2001-01/2003
Stanford Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab, USA
Developer of a 3D computer model simulating turbulent mixing at lateral boundaries due to steepening and breaking of internal waves
08/2000-06/2001
Georgia Instititute of Technology, Civil Engineering Labs, USA
Analyzed influence of copper sorption rates on particle flocculation kinetics
Developed PIV experiments in turbulent hydraulic flume
06/1998-06/2000
AFFILIATIONS and SPECIALIZATIONS
Professional Civil Engineer (PE072050), ASCE, AGU, Fulbright Alumnus
Experienced with ArcGIS, Matlab, R Statistical Analysis, MapInfo, MODFLOW, H2OMap, AutoCAD, Idrisi, Unix / Lenox, Fortran, NetCDF, Visual Basic
Fluent in Anglais and Français. Proficient in Spanish
