Luca Carraro
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Research interests
Ecohydrology; freshwater environmental and ecosystem modelling; spatial processes in river networks; environmental DNA in rivers; stream temperature and nutrient dynamics; metapopulation and metacommunity models; spatial epidemiology.
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Education and professional positions
| 2022 - 2025 | Independent Group Leader (SNSF Ambizione Fellow), Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Hosted at Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 2019 - 2022 | Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Hosted at Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 2018 - 2019 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Ecohydrology, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2014 - 2018 | Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory of Ecohydrology, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2012 - 2014 | M.Sc. in Hydraulic Engineering, University of Padua, Italy |
| 2008 - 2012 | B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Padua, Italy |
Selected publications
- Carraro L., Altermatt F. (2022). Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks. Communications Earth, 3:125. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00454-1
- Jacquet C., Carraro L., Altermatt F. (2022). Meta-ecosystem dynamics drive the spatial distribution of functional groups in river networks. Oikos, 2022(11). DOI: 10.1111/oik.09372 (shared 1st authorship)
- Carraro L., Mächler E., Wüthrich R., Altermatt F. (2020). Environmental DNA allows upscaling spatial patterns of biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. Nature Communications, 11(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17337-8
- Carraro L., Bertuzzo E., Fronhofer EA., Furrer R., Gounand I., Rinaldo A., Altermatt F. (2020). Generation and application of river network analogues for use in ecology and evolution. Ecology and Evolution, 10(14), 7537-7550. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6479
- Carraro L., Hartikainen H., Jokela J., Bertuzzo E., Rinaldo A. (2018). Estimating species distribution and abundance in river networks using environmental DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(46), 11724-11729. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813843115
- Carraro L., Bertuzzo E., Mari L., Fontes I., Hartikainen H., Strepparava N., et al. (2017). Integrated field, laboratory, and theoretical study of PKD spread in a Swiss prealpine river. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(45), 11992-11997. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713691114
