**About the Editors**

**Armando Di Nardo** (professor), Ph.D. and Associate Professor with a National Academic Qualification as a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering of University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" and Associate Researcher at Institute of Complex Systems of Italian National Research Council. Engineer, expert in smart water networks, optimizations of water resources management and remediation, decision support system, hydroinformatic and hydraulic infrastructures. Coordinator of an European Action Group of EIP (European Innovation Partnership) on Water, titled CTRL+SWAN (Cloud Technologies & Real Time Monitoring + Smart Water Network). Cofounder of the academic spinoffs Environmental Technologies srl. and MedHydro srl. Author of 180 papers in national and international journals and conferences, with over 90 SCI papers, 3 books and 15 book chapters. The major research fields include water resources management, water network partitioning, groundwater remediation carried out with innovative approaches based on heuristic optimization techniques, complex network theory, spectral theory, etc. Creator and developer of the registered software SWANP (Smart Water Network Partitioning and Protection). Cofounder of three academic spinoff companies: Med.Hydro, ARTEMA and Environmental Technologies. Company advisor in the fundraising and development of research projects. Social innovator, cofounder of the foundation non-profit IISE and of the startup incubator HUB spa, experimenting with coworking, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, startup acceleration in South of Italy. Jury member in startup and company competitions. Copywriter, blogger and writer for blogs and newspapers.

**Dominic L. Boccelli** is a Professor and Department Head of the Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, Dominic was an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, where he was the founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Water Cluster. His research is broadly focused in the area of urban water infrastructure. More specifically, his research has emphasized drinking water distribution systems focused on real-time modeling, contamination warning systems, and water quality issues associated primarily with disinfectant dynamics and by-product formation. Dr. Boccelli's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Water Research Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Binational Science Foundation (a partnership between the US and Israel). He and his co-author received the Best Research-Oriented Paper in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (2016), and he received an Endevaour Executive Fellowship (2015) in support of his sabbatical at the University of Adelaide. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Hydroinformatics, and the *Journal of the American Water Works Association*.

**Manuel Herrera** (Ph.D.) is a Research Associate in distributed intelligent systems at the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is the recipient of the Frank Hansford-Miller Fellowship 2021, awarded by the Statistical Society of Australia (WA Branch). Manuel's research focuses on predictive analytics and complex (adaptive) networks for smart and resilient critical infrastructure. His interdisciplinary profile has proven to be successful in terms of the number and quality of publications; having a high academic impact. Manuel's latest work deals with the AI-enabled management and maintenance of the UK national infrastructure. This is the case of his participation in granted projects on telecommunication systems, urban water, and 5G ports. Manuel is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a member of associations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the International Water Association.

**Enrico Creac** Ph.D., Associate Professor, obtained his Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering in 2006 and has researched topics pertinent to water and environmental systems for over fifteen years. His career began at the Universities of Catania and then Ferrara, Italy. From May 2014 to June 2015, he took up a Research Fellow post at the University of Exeter and became an Assistant Professor at the University of Pavia in September 2015. He has been an Associate Professor at the University of Pavia since September 2018. He has been an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. In September 2018, he obtained the Full Professor Qualification in the Hydraulics, Hydrology and Hydraulic Infrastructure Sector. He has been a lecturer in hydraulic infrastructures at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has published more than 100 Scopus indexed papers, most of which are in international ISI indexed journals. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management—ASCE and participated in/coordinated with various national and international research projects. Research interests: design and management of water distribution systems; sewer and irrigation systems; numerical modeling of shallow waters and sediment transport; demand analysis; protection of water distribution systems from contamination.

**Andrea Cominola** (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Smart Water Networks at the Einstein Center Digital Future and Technische Universit´'at Berlin. In early 2017, he received his Ph.D. in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano (Environmental Intelligence group, formerly Natural Resources Management group) for his dissertation on "Modelling residential water consumers' behavior. From smart metered data to demand management". He is a Principal Investigator or Investigator of several national and international projects on urban water and energy demand modelling and management, smart meters, leakage and anomaly detection, behavioral modelling, data mining, and machine learning for water and coupled human-environment systems analysis. He is the author of 15 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals, 2 book chapters, 47 publications/presentations in international conferences, and a reviewer for several international journals. Since 2019, he has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (American Society of Civil Engineers) and, since 2020, of the ICE's Water Management journal. He has also been a Guest Editor of Special Issues in different journals. Among other recognitions, in 2020, he was awarded the Early Career Research Excellence (ECRE) biennial award by the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs).

**Riccardo Taormina** Taormina (Ph.D.) joined TU Delft's Department of Water Management in July 2019 as an Assistant Professor in Urban Water Infrastructure (tenure track). He has a BSc and an MSc in Environmental Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining TU Delft, Riccardo worked as a Postdoc at the iTrust Research Center of Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research activity involves the use of data, computational modelling, and machine learning/AI for solving complex water problems. He is also an expert in the cyber-physical security of water infrastructure, which was the main topic of his postdoctoral experience. Riccardo codirects AidroLab, TU Delft's AI lab in sustainable water management. He is the coauthor of over 20 peer-reviewed publications in international journals. Since 2020, he has served as an Associate Editor of AQUA—*Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society*, and since 2021, he has also been an Associate Editor of the ASCE *Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (JWRPM)*. He is also the recipient of the 2019 Best Research Paper Award from JWRPM.

**Robert Sitzenfrei** is full professor of urban water management at the University of Innsbruck. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences in 2010. As a researcher at the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in Innsbruck, he led and co-led basic and applied research projects in all areas of urban water management, publishing more than 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals, books and scientific conferences. He continuously serves as a scientific committee member of different international conferences and is/was a guest editor of Special Issues in different journals. In 2015, he became an Assistant Professor and subsequent Associate Professor at the University of Innsbruck. In 2018, he was appointed Full Professor of Urban Water Management at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests are in integrated and interdisciplinary approaches, resilience, urban water networks, complex network analysis, transition modelling, smart (water) cities, water and energy, sustainability, etc.
