David Johnny PERES
David J. Peres has been an Associate Professor since December 2024. He previously served as a tenure-track researcher (Type B) in the ICAR/02 sector – Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions and Hydrology – at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Catania from December 2021 to November 2024. He obtained his first-class National Scientific Qualification on July 1, 2024, in the 08/A1 macro-sector and his second-class qualification in 2018. Between 2013 and 2021, he held various research grants and fellowships.
In 2013, he earned his Ph.D. in Hydraulic, Sanitary-Environmental, and Transportation Infrastructure Engineering with a dissertation titled The hydrological control on shallow landsliding: empirical and physically based Monte Carlo approaches (Supervisor: Prof. A. Cancelliere). He has conducted research abroad as a visiting researcher at Colorado State University, USA (2012), and Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (2017).
He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences.
Up-to-date information on his publications is available through the following profiles:
- Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4387-6291
- Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55413034800
- Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PrimdLAAAAAJ&hl=it
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-peres-32052857/
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Peres-2
- Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/1429542/david-j-peres/
The main research interests include: hydrological modeling of landslide initiation, identification of rainfall thresholds useful for developing early warning systems, analysis of climate projections to assess the impacts of climate change on water resource management and hydrological extremes, generation of synthetic hydro-meteorological series through stochastic models and artificial neural networks, probabilistic analysis of droughts, and active public engagement in geo-hydrological risk prevention.
Research activities have also been conducted within the framework of several national and European research projects (EU LIFE, PON Research and Innovation, PRIN, PON Governance, agreements with Regional Authorities, and external companies). He has collaborated, as an adjunct expert, in teaching Hydrology courses for Master's programs in Water and Transportation Engineering and Environmental and Land Engineering. The scientific activity, as of November 2024, is evidenced by more than 120 publications in indexed international scientific journals, book chapters, national and international conference proceedings, where he has disseminated his research findings (sometimes by invitation). He collaborates with numerous journals in the field of hydrology and natural disasters as a reviewer and is an Associate Editor for *Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences*. Further details are available in his CV (last updated: November 2024).