New Branco Weiss Fellow
This year Society in Science – The Branco Weiss Fellowship has selected Dr. Gabriele Manoli as one of five new fellows. Dr. Manoli will investigate the functioning of “green cities” working in our group and the Singapore ETH Center.
Green urbanism, eco-cities and innovative green infrastructures are being promoted and adopted worldwide to improve urban well-being. However, all these efforts are guided by aesthetic, conceptual, and qualitative principles rather than a quantitative understanding of the underlining biophysical processes, scales and feedbacks.
As a Branco Weiss fellow, Dr. Manoli aims to fill this knowledge gap by combining scaling laws, dynamical system theories and ecohydrological modeling. His cross-cutting objective is to introduce quantitative biophysical tools in the design of future green cities.
The fellowship grant is giving Dr. Manoli up to five years of complete academic freedom.
For more information, please visit external pagehttp://www.society-in-science.org/gabriele-manoli.html and this article on ETH news.