Simone Fatichi received his BSc (cum laude) in Earth and Environmental Engineering at the University of Firenze (Italy) in 2004 and his MSc (cum laude) in Earth and Environmental Protection Engineering at the University of Firenze (Italy) in 2006.  In 2010, he obtained an International PhD title (outstanding evaluation) joint between the T.U. Braunschweig (Germany) and University of Firenze (Italy) with the thesis 'The modeling of hydrological cycle and its interaction with vegetation in the framework of climate change'. 

He was visiting researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan (USA) in 2008 and 2009 and in the Institute of Applied Ecology at Auckland University of Technology (NZ) in 2014. He was recipient of Evangelista Torricelli prize in 2014. 

Simone Fatichi is currently researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich Institute of Environmental Engineering since 2011. He is mainly working on ecohydrology, biogeoscience and climate change related issues. Research interests range from distributed hydrological and ecohydrological modeling, modeling of plant physiological processes and tree-leaf hydraulic, modeling of soil biogeochemistry and nutrient dynamics, weather generators and stochastic hydro-meteorological forcing realizations, downscaling techniques to study climate change impacts and uncertainties, to arrive to more general questions related to global change and its interaction with vegetation functioning, water resources and ecosystem services. 

View his publication here.