Tommaso Caloiero is a Civil Engineer (specialization in Hydraulic).
He graduated from the University of Calabria, received a Second Level Master’s Degree from the same University and a Ph.D. from the Polythecnics of Milan.
He is a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy – Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (CNR- IRPI).
His research interests focus on surface hydrology and its climatological and meteorological implications, and therefore on the analysis, at different spatial and temporal scales, of climate trends and drought risk, and the impact that climate change has on water resource management in the Mediterranean basin.
He received the National Scientific Qualification pursuant to art. 16 of Law 240/2010 for the functions of Full Professor (from 09/06/2023 to 09/06/2035) and Associate Professor (from 28/07/2017 to 28/07/2029) for the Scientific Discipline 08/A01 – Hydraulics, hydrology, hydraulic and marine constructions.
Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of the Research Cooperation Agreement between the Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and the University of Agriculture in Krakow (Poland).
He has been Scientific Coordinator for the National Research Council (CNR) for the Goal 3.2 – Pilot Project 1 – Spoke 3 of the projects Technologies for climate change adaptation and quality of life improvement (Tech4You). Moreover he has been AI of the projects “ERA-NET COFUND WATERWORKS 2015 – Innovative Options for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean (INNOMED)” and “PRIN 2015 – Reconciling precipitation with runoff: the role of understated measurement biases in the modeling of hydrological processes”.
He is a Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD in Geology, Engineering and Science of Sustainable Earth and Energy Transition (GESET) (past PhD in Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Construction and Energy – SIACE) at the University of Calabria. Furthermore, for the same PhD, since 2019 he has been responsible for the PhD Course “Climate Change Analysis” which he regularly teaches.
He published more than 100 scientific papers on international WOS/SCOPUS academic journals.
He is Section Editor-in-Chief (Hydrology–Climate Interactions) for the journal Hydrology, he is Associate Editor for the Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration and he is member of the Editorial Board for the journals Scientific Reports, Acta Scientiarum Polonorum serie Formatio Circumiectus – Environmental Processes, Earth, Hydrology, Sustainability and Hydroecology and Engineering.
He has been featured on the Stanford University’s list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022 (single-year), 2023 (single-year and career-long), 2024 (single-year and career-long) and 2025 (single-year and career-long).
