Gabriele

Villarini

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

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Research interests: Flood hydrology, extreme events, hydroclimatology, and climate predictions and projections.

A group of people gathered around a table, conversing over a meal. — Jürgen Hackl (right), assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, talks with students from the engineering Class of 2029 at a welcome event in the Friend Center courtyard. Photos by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Dean urges students to embrace uncertainty and curiosity

Cloud of volcanic ash above a landscape — The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Image by USGS

Tropical volcanic eruptions push rainfall across the equator

Gabriele Villarini named vice dean of engineering

Climate change and urbanization both increase storms’ flooding threat for coastal cities

Flooded farmhouse with debris in the water in the foreground — A Nebraska neighborhood during 2011 flooding along the Missouri River. Photo by Diana Fredlund, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Helping engineers design for waterways on a changing planet

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Three students look closely at a model of an architectural structure.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fundamental insights into the built and natural environments, and interactions between the two

Princeton campus and Guyot Hall

High Meadows Environmental Institute