Prof. Dr. Attilio Castellarin has served a full professor at the University of Bologna since 2017, and previously an associate professor (since September 2014). He earned his Ph.D. in water engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy) in 2001, with a post-doctoral fellowship in 2001–2002 at the University of Bologna (Italy). He obtained the National Academic Qualification for Associate Professorship and Full Professorship on 2 February 2013. He collaborates with USGS (US), TUW (AT), GFZ (DE), and Tufts University (US) within their training and scientific research programs. He has served as the local coordinator or principal investigator for several national and international competitive research grants, as the author and co-author of more than 100 papers indexed on Scopus and Web Of Sciences, and as editor in chief of the Hydrological Sciences Journal (IAHS). His research interests include hydrological predictions in ungauged basins; modeling, assessment, and mitigation of flood hazards and risks; 1D and 2D hydrodynamic modeling; regional frequency analysis of hydrological extremes; and anthropogenic and climatic effects on hydrological processes.