Rafael Schmitt, former PhD student at DEIB (Andrea Castelletti supervisor), received the Young Researcher Award of the International Hydropower Association (IHA) as an "emerging talent in the hydropower sector" for his  PhD work on modeling sediment transport and selecting optimal dam portfolios in the lower Mekong River done in collaboration with the University of California Berkeley.  The award is given by-annually at the IHA world congress.
The award ceremony will take on May 9th in Addis Ababa during the IHA world congress.

Further information is available at https://www.hydropower.org/iha-young-researcher-award.