Carlo De Michele is a Professor of Hydrology at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, as of 2019. Previously, he was an Associate Professor (2007–2019) and Assistant Professor (1999–2006) at Politecnico di Milano. His interests include: hydrological extremes: rainfall, snow, floods and droughts; compound climate-related events; multivariate extreme values; scaling issues in hydrology; snow hydrology; climate change’s impact on the hydrologic cycle; ecohydrology; the reliability and resilience of existing water engineering works. His scientific activity includes more than 160 Publications in ISI journals and one book, “Extremes in nature: an approach using copulas” (Springer). H-index: 36 (SCOPUS), with about 5000 citations (SCOPUS). He is an Editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Journal (EGU), and Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE) and Water. He received the Outstanding Editor Award 2012 of European Geosciences Union in recognition of his excellence services as Editor of the EGU Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences Journal in 2012. He received the Best Paper Award 2009 by ASCE - Journal of Hydrologic Engineering; and the Best Paper Award 2015 by STAHY-IAHS.