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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. Davide Wüthrich
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Davide Wüthrich\n16:00 – 17:00 – Prof. Davide Wüth
 rich\nAssistant Professor\, TU Delft\, NL\n\nSURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS -
  What can we learn from previous floods?\n\nThe world is changing\, not on
 ly its climate! Most recent studies agree that the future will experience 
 more frequent and severe hazards\, including extreme floods\, droughts\, s
 torms and tsunamis. The summer 2021 floods in Belgium\, Germany and the Ne
 therlands proved once again the catastrophic nature of these events\, that
  can no longer be considered too rare to be relevant and actions must be u
 ndertaken to guarantee safety\, mitigate damage and reduce reconstruction 
 costs. Also in Switzerland\, a report from the Federal Council showed that
  increasing temperatures will lead to more violent and unpredictable storm
 s\, harmful not only to people\, but also to critical infrastructure. In a
 ddition\, a warmer climate will favour the melting of mountain glaciers\, 
 generating supplementary resources for the achievement of the Energy Strat
 egy 2050. These will be associated with increasing pressure on our ageing 
 hydraulic infrastructure\, with potential damages to both people and the e
 nvironment.\n\nIn this context\, today’s race toward a safer and more su
 stainable adaptation to climate change questions the classical hydraulic d
 esign\, requiring a paradigm shift toward a multi-hazard approach with tra
 nsdisciplinary solutions and mitigation measures based on resilient green-
 blue infrastructure. Based on observations during a recent post-flood fore
 nsic survey in the Ahr Valley (Germany)\, this seminar initially focuses o
 n the consequences of highly unsteady flows on infrastructure\, showing th
 at a more comprehensive understanding of these phenomena and their driving
  mechanism is essential to develop innovative solutions to improve design 
 guidelines. Secondly\, this seminar presents additional challenges associa
 ted with extreme floods\, including stability of people\, air-entrainment\
 , the effect of debris accumulation and associated structural loading. Thi
 s reveals that a combination of innovative research\, quality education an
 d interdisciplinary collaborations is the only approach to successfully ov
 ercome the challenges that current and future infrastructures are facing.\
 n\n\nShort bio:\nDavide Wüthrich is a civil engineer specialized in hydra
 ulic structures\, currently Assistant Professor at Delft University of Tec
 hnology\, the Netherlands and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Queen
 sland\, Australia. After obtaining a Bachelor degree at Politecnico di Tor
 ino (Italy)\, he continued his studies at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale d
 e Lausanne (EPFL)\, where he obtained a Master in 2013 and a Ph.D in 2018 
 on the impact of waves on structures. He was a visiting Post-Doc for 3 mon
 ths at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) and 
 he was awarded a SNSF Post-Doctoral fellowship to conduct research at the 
 University of Queensland (Australia) on the air-entrainment in transient b
 ores. In December 2020 he joined TU Delft\, where his current research int
 erests focus on the impact of highly unsteady flows on critical infrastruc
 ture\, including post-flood forensic surveys\, laboratory experiments and 
 prototype measurements. Throughout his career he has been involved in many
  projects in the domain of hydraulic and coastal engineering\, co-authorin
 g more than 25 journal publications and receiving multiple international r
 ecognitions\, including the 2018 Best Paper award in Coastal Engineering J
 ournal (CEJ) and the 2019 Jean Valembois Fluid Mechanics award.
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