Salvatore Manfreda is an Associate Professor of Water Management and Hydrology at the University of Basilicata in Italy. He is Chair of the COST Action Harmonious and Scientific Coordinator of the Flood Forecasting System of the Civil Protection of the Basilicata Region. He has broad interest in hydrology and ecohydrology, with particular emphasis on distributed modeling, flood prediction, stochastic processes in hydrology, soil moisture process, delineation of flood prone areas, vegetation patterns and UAS monitoring. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Ecohydrology (Winley) and Hydrology (MPDI).