Education
I received the Master's degree in Hydraulic Engineering in May 2006 from Politecnico di Torino, Italy and the Ph.D. degree in Water and Land Management in March 2010 also from Politecnico di Torino, with a dissertation entitled “Regional meso-scale habitat models for environmental flows assessment”.
Research activities
My main research interests has been focused on a large range of disciplines, including theoretical and applied research in the field of fluvial hydraulics, hydrology, aquatic ecology and biology, sediment transport. Since I got the PhD in 2007, I worked as post-doctoral fellow in Italy, Spain and UK. From 2011 to 2013, I held a Marie Curie Fellowship hosted by the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV, Spain) in the framework of the HolRiverMed project (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF-275577). I am currently based at Politecnico di Torino working as Associate Professor at the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI). In the last ten years I have collaborated in several research projects framed in different European countries (Italy, Spain, UK, Latvia, Sweden) as well as in Latin America, Asia and Africa to study diverse aspects of river restoration, conservation of aquatic ecosystems and water resources management. I also had an active role in projects focused on hydropower production, evaluating the impacts of flow regulation on the aquatic community and assessing the effectiveness of different river restoration measures.
Teaching and tutoring activities
I have been teaching in graduate courses of "River engineering and Restoration", "Hydrology", "Fluid mechanics", "Climate Change Adaptation" and in the post-graduate courses of "Ecohydraulics: hydropower and aquatic ecosystems" and "Access to Water and Sanitation" at Politecnico di Torino. I'm also participating as a teacher in courses on habitat modelling organized by Italian environmental agencies and universities. I held seminars on my research activities at the International School for Water and Development, ILO-UN, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (Costa Rica), USGS - Fort Collins Science Center (CO, USA), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan), Karlstad University (Sweden), Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), Fisheries Research Institute (Kavala, Greece), Centre for Environmental Design and Renewable Energy (Trondheim, Norway), Trento and Salerno University (Italy). Moreover, I supervised 4 PhD students in the doctorate school of Civil and Environmental Engineering and 20 Master Thesis in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Architecture at Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
Dissemination and editorial activities
Since January 2007 with the beginning of my Ph.D., I have been carrying out my academic research and editorial activities. The papers accepted or submitted on renown peer-reviewed journals, chapters and articles in edited books and conference proceedings are reported in section "Publications". A list of services in the scientific community follows:
- Member of Ph.D committee in European (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia – Spain, University of Southampton, UK), Colombian (Universidad Manuela Beltran, Bogota), Mexican (Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Santiago de Queretaro) and Italian Universities (Università degli Studi di Trento e Salerno, Politecnico di Torino);
- Guest editor for special issues in international journals: Frontiers in Environmental Sciences, Water;
- Referee for international journals: Scientific Reports, Journal of Hydrology, River Research and Applications, Water Resources Research, Advances in Water Resources, Water Resources and Management, Environmental Modelling & Software, Hydroinformatics, Plos ONE, Biodiversity and Conservation, Ecohydrology, Ecological modelling, Ecological applications; Ecological informatics;
- Organizing convener session: International Ecohydraulics Symposium (Tokyo, 2018), EGU (Wien, Austria, 2015-2016), IAEG Congress (Torino, Italy, 2014).
Awards and Honors
- European Commission Expert. 2020. Support to ECOSTAT activities on Environmental Flows;- Junior Marchi Lecturer. 2016. Napoli, Italy. Awarded by the Gruppo Italiano Idraulica;
- Advisory board member of the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea (MATTM) on Environmental Flows. 2016;
- Individual Marie Curie Fellow. 2011. Project Environmental River Management: An Innovative Holistic Approach for Mediterranean Streams (HolRiverMed).