Dr. Elena Matta is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Environmental Intelligence Lab of Prof. Castelletti, based at the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is also project manager of AWESOME (PRIMA Foundation, EU) and collegiate of the interdisciplinary research training group UWI (Urban Water Interfaces) funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at TU Berlin. Her research interests include the interdisciplinary management of water resources in complex free-surface bodies/hydrosystems through the implementation of multi-dimensional numerical modeling, hydrological modeling and machine learning approaches, as well as the integration among them. She gained experience in management coordinating the master program in Water Engineering at TU Berlin, where she worked as PhD student and Postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Water Resources Management and Modeling of Hydrosystems until May 2020. Dr. Matta is co-author of more than 30 publications in international peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.