#1 - Joao P. Leitao: Engineers never say never and never say always - a new take on flood models

João Paulo Leitão is a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and lecturer at ETH Zurich working on data-driven flood models and urban water asset management. On this inaugural episode of the Grand Challengers Podcast, we discuss how João's Portuguese heritage has influenced his work and how he is using models and unconventional data sources to improve the way we understand historical urban development and potential future flood hazards in our ci...