Dr. Elisa Arnone is an Associate Professor in the Department Polytechnic of Engineering and Architecture (DPIA) at the University of Udine (Italy), and she is affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) for Research/Collaboration. In Italy, she teaches Hydrology and Hydraulic Infrastructures. Her research activities focus on physically-based hydrological modeling of rainfall-driven geomorphic processes, root-reinforcement modeling for hydro-geological risk mitigation, and rainfall extremes. She has been collaborating with Bras Hydrology Group for many years on developing physically-based tools to simulate the shallow-landslide hazard across the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico