Fatichi Group
Environmental Biophysics and Ecohydrology
Simone Fatichi conducts research in hydrology, biogeosciences, and climate change. His work explores how global environmental change impacts water and soil resources, vegetation, the carbon cycle, and ecosystem services in both natural and urban environments.
Research Areas:
• Terrestrial ecohydrology and carbon cycle modeling
• Plant physiology and tree-leaf hydraulic modeling
• Modeling of soil biogeochemistry and soil physics
• Distributed hydrological modeling and hydrological transport processes
• Urban ecohydrology and urban climate modeling
• Extreme rainfall and convective storms in a changing climate
Publications
Chen L, Brun P, Buri P, Fatichi S, Gessler A, McCarthy M, Pellicciotti F, Stocker B, Karger DN. 2025. Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts. Science. 387(6731), 278–284. View
Buri P, Fatichi S, Shaw T, Miles ES, McCarthy M, Fyffe CL, Fugger S, Ren S, Kneib M, Jouberton A, Steiner J, Fujita K, Pellicciotti F. 2023. Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: On the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high-elevation catchment. Water Resources Research. 59(10), e2022WR033841. View
Publications: Simone Fatichi
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Career
Starting 2026 Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
2024 – 2026 Full Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2020 – 2024 Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2011 – 2020 Research Associate and Lecturer, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2010 – 2011 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Firenze, Italy
2010 PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, joint between the University of Firenze, Italy and T.U. Braunschweig, Germany
Selected Distinctions
2023 Young Researcher Award (National University of Singapore, College of Design and Engineering)
2020 Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award (American Geophysical Union)
2019, Antonio Feltrinelli Giovani Prize in Engineering of Complex Systems (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
2014 Evangelista Torricelli Prize
