BRUNELLA BONACCORSO is an Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Management at the Department of Engineering, University of Messina (Italy). She holds an MSc in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of Catania. She held a postdoc position at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Catania until September 2011, carrying out research activities on the identification and stochastic characterization of hydrological droughts and the definition of drought mitigation measures in water supply systems. Then she held the academic position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Messina before holding the current position of Associate Professor at the beginning of 2021. She has published more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications on the topic of risk assessment and management of extreme hydrological events and, more recently, on the study of the effects of climate change on the availability of water resources. She was co-editor of the book “Methods and Tools for Drought Analysis and Management” published by Springer (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5924-7). She is Associate Editor of the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Copernicus) and the Hydrological Sciences Journal (Taylor and Francis). She has collaborated on various research projects at the national and European levels on the topic of water management in the Mediterranean area, such as MEDROPLAN (MEDA program) and SEDEMED (Interreg IIIB program). Currently, she is the local coordinator of the national projects funded by NextGenerationEU:

• PRIN PNRR “INnovative FOrecast-informed REServoir operations for sustainable use of water resources and climate change adaptation  –  INFORES”
• “Water Management Strategies and Climate Change Adaptation in Southern Italy – WaterWISE” within the PNRR project “Multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate (RETURN)”

Since 2015 she has been the main convener or one of the co-conveners of the EGU session HS4.2 “Drought and water scarcity: monitoring, modelling and forecasting to improve drought risk management”. She was the guest editor, together with Dr Carmelo Cammalleri and Prof Athanasios Loukas, of the special issue on “Recent advances in drought and water scarcity monitoring, modelling, and forecasting” published on Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences between 2019 and 2020. She is also a member of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA).

Currently, she is supervising three PhD students whose research topics deal with water resources management under the threat of climate change and anthropogenic pressure.