Giovanni De Cesare is the operational director of the Platform of Hydraulic Constructions PL-LCH (formerly Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions LCH) of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is in charge of the technology transfer of the hydraulic laboratory, as well as research and teaching. He has more than 25 years of experience in physical and numerical modelling in all domains of hydraulic structures and schemes with more than 100 studies performed, as well as several commissioned studies and expert reports in applied hydraulics and hydraulic constructions. He specialises in various fields, such as reservoir sediment management and river training work. Giovanni De Cesare holds an MSc in Civil Engineering and a PhD in technical sciences from the EPFL where he studied reservoir sedimentation by turbidity currents with on-site measurements, numerical simulation as well as experimental tests. He is author of more than 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, publications and conference proceedings.