Davide Ceresetti
Davide Ceresetti is in charge of hydro-meteorological measurements at the Cantonal Water Office of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, since 2018. He obtained a master's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, complemented by a PhD in hydro-meteorology on multi-scale properties of extreme precipitation at Grenoble-Alpes University.
Since 2011, he has been involved in water engineering projects in Switzerland (as Development Manager in "Hydrology, Hydrometry and Basin Management") for a large Swiss engineering firm, where he has developed projects in urban drainage network design, stream revitalization, flood risk maps, with a strong focus on numerical modeling. In 2016 he obtained the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Water Management and Policy at the University of Geneva. He is currently in charge of the real-time management of the hydro-meteorological surveillance platform of the canton of Geneva, managing a team of 6 collaborators and ensuring the operation and data flow of more than 60 measurement stations. He is involved in the working group in charge of hydro-meteorological forecasting and flood protection for Geneva Canton. In addition Dr. Ceresetti is an expert in traditional flow measurement methods: mechanical and electromagnetic current meters, saline and fluorescent tracers, ADCP (doppler profiler).
