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62
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11641
World Ranking
1957
National Ranking
46

Overview

Andrea Castelletti is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a strong emphasis on water-related disciplines.

The scientist's work covers various subfields including Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Sociology and Political Science.

Main topics in their research include Water resources management and optimization, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Systems and Optimization, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Castelletti has published extensively in several venues that frequently feature their work:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Earth's Future

Notable recent papers include:

  • More than one million barriers fragment Europe's rivers (2020, Nature)
  • A State-of-the-Art Review of Optimal Reservoir Control for Managing Conflicting Demands in a Changing World (2021, Water Resources Research)
  • Exploding the myths: An introduction to artificial neural networks for prediction and forecasting (2023, Environmental Modelling & Software)
  • Save the Mekong Delta from drowning (2022, Science)
  • Persistent inequality in economically optimal climate policies (2021, Nature Communications)

Castelletti frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Matteo Giuliani
  • Patrick M. Reed
  • Andrea Cominola
  • Hamid Moradkhani
  • Marta Zaniolo

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics in water resources

    H.R. Maier;Z. Kapelan;J. Kasprzyk;J. Kollat

  • Bayesian Networks and participatory modelling in water resource management

    A. Castelletti;R. Soncini-Sessa

  • Benefits and challenges of using smart meters for advancing residential water demand modeling and management

    A. Cominola;M. Giuliani;D. Piga;A. Castelletti

  • Changing sediment budget of the Mekong: Cumulative threats and management strategies for a large river basin

    G. Mathias Kondolf;G. Mathias Kondolf;Rafael J.P. Schmitt;Rafael J.P. Schmitt;Paul Carling;Steve Darby

  • Curses, Tradeoffs, and Scalable Management: Advancing Evolutionary Multiobjective Direct Policy Search to Improve Water Reservoir Operations

    Matteo Giuliani;Andrea Francesco Castelletti;Francesca Pianosi;Emanuele Mason

  • Water reservoir control under economic, social and environmental constraints

    Andrea Castelletti;Francesca Pianosi;Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa

  • Robustness Metrics: How Are They Calculated, When Should They Be Used and Why Do They Give Different Results?

    C. McPhail;H. R. Maier;J. H. Kwakkel;M. Giuliani

  • An evaluation framework for input variable selection algorithms for environmental data-driven models

    Stefano Galelli;Greer B. Humphrey;Holger R. Maier;Andrea Castelletti

  • Value of long-term streamflow forecasts to reservoir operations for water supply in snow-dominated river catchments

    Daniela Anghileri;Nathalie Voisin;Andrea Francesco Castelletti;Francesca Pianosi

  • Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management. Theory

    Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa;Andrea Castelletti;Enrico Weber

  • Tree-based reinforcement learning for optimal water reservoir operation

    A. Castelletti;S. Galelli;M. Restelli;R. Soncini-Sessa

  • Position Paper: A general framework for Dynamic Emulation Modelling in environmental problems

    A. Castelletti;S. Galelli;M. Ratto;R. Soncini-Sessa

  • Many‐objective reservoir policy identification and refinement to reduce policy inertia and myopia in water management

    M. Giuliani;J. D. Herman;A. Castelletti;P. Reed

  • A Hybrid Signature-based Iterative Disaggregation algorithm for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

    Andrea Cominola;Matteo Giuliani;Dario Piga;Andrea Francesco Castelletti

  • Improved trade-offs of hydropower and sand connectivity by strategic dam planning in the Mekong

    Rafael J.P. Schmitt;Rafael J.P. Schmitt;Rafael J.P. Schmitt;Simone Bizzi;Andrea Castelletti;Andrea Castelletti;G.M. Kondolf;G.M. Kondolf

  • Tree‐based iterative input variable selection for hydrological modeling

    Stefano Galelli;Andrea Francesco Castelletti

  • A diagnostic assessment of evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective surface water reservoir control

    Jazmin Zatarain Salazar;Patrick M Reed;Jonathan D. Herman;Matteo Giuliani

  • A procedural approach to strengthening integration and participation in water resource planning

    Andrea Castelletti;Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa

  • Rival framings: A framework for discovering how problem formulation uncertainties shape risk management trade-offs in water resources systems

    J. D. Quinn;P. M. Reed;M. Giuliani;A. Castelletti;A. Castelletti

  • Putting humans in the loop: Social computing for Water Resources Management

    P. Fraternali;A. Castelletti;R. Soncini-Sessa;C. Vaca Ruiz

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick M. Reed
Patrick M. Reed Cornell University
Andrea Emilio Rizzoli
Andrea Emilio Rizzoli Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
Paolo Burlando
Paolo Burlando ETH Zurich
Holger R. Maier
Holger R. Maier University of Adelaide
Piero Fraternali
Piero Fraternali Polytechnic University of Milan
Peter C. Young
Peter C. Young Lancaster University
Jay R. Lund
Jay R. Lund University of California, Davis
Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni Polytechnic University of Milan
Rodney Anthony Stewart
Rodney Anthony Stewart Griffith University
Seth Westra
Seth Westra University of Adelaide

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