Paolo D’Odorico is Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources and Chair of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley.

He received his Ph.D. from the university of Padua (Italy), has been a postdoc at Texas A&M and Princeton, and a faculty member at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the role of hydrological processes in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and societies. He has published more than 240articles in peer reviewed journals, edited a volume on Dryland Ecohydrology (Springer, 2006); co-authored Noise-Induced Phenomena in the Environmental Sciences (Cambridge, 2011); Elements of Physical Hydrology (Hopkins Press, 2014), and Global Deforestation (Cambridge, 2016).

In the 2^nd level Specializing Master's programme in Climate Change: adaptation and mitigation solutions he will lecture Food-Water Nexus in a Changing Climate in the course Climate Change Adaptation.