João Nuno Fernandes Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology of the ETH Zurich João Nuno Fernandes has a Ph.D in Civil Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon. The PhD thesis was concluded in 2013 and dealt with the flow characterization in compound channels and the interaction of the flow with the vegetation. He has approximately 12 years of experience. He worked in several research and consultancy projects mainly related to flood inundation, fluvial hydraulics and hydraulic structures. He was an invited assistant professor at the Science and Technology Faculty of the New University of Lisbon. Since January 2015 he become a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology of the ETH Zurich.