Summary
Fernando Nardi is an associate professor and hydraulic engineer with a PhD in Hydrology who blends academic leadership and entrepreneurship to tackle water, flood and climate risk through geospatial analytics and numerical modelling. As director of WARREDOC and co-founder/president of GRIDDIT, he commercializes EO and non-EO data–driven tools to help organizations mitigate floods and climate impacts while actively fundraising and coordinating multi-million-euro EU projects. His background includes formative stints at Columbia and MIT, long-term contributions to FLO-2D hydraulic modelling, and a track record of building interdisciplinary teams that span remote sensing, GIS, crowdsourcing and gamification. Passionate about translating applied research into impact, he mentors young PhDs and postdocs to better valorize their technical skills into societal and economic value.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Visiting PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Civil hydraulic engineering (focus hydrology), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Civil hydraulic engineering (focus hydrology) at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, French