Universita' degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma (Italy), M.S. in Civil Engineering, 1990
Universita' degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma (Italy), Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering, 1995
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Israel), Postdoctoral, 1995
Ricercatore Universitario (1994-1997)
Ricercatore Universitario confermato (1997-2002)
Professore Incaricato di Idrologia (1998-2001)
Professore Associato (2002-2004)
Professore Associato confermato (2004-2011)
Professore Straordinario (2012-2014)
Professore Ordinario (2015-)
Theory of flow and solute transport in heterogeneous porous media
Subsurface stochastic hydrology
Water flow toward wells and inverse problem
Anomalous transport in porous media
Flow and transport processes in the vadose zone
Streamflow generation processes
Flow and solute transport at the hillslope scale
Statistical hydrology
Design and verification of hydraulic structures
President of the International Committee on Ground Water (ICGW), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) (2015-2021)
Editor, Hydrological Sciences Journal (2019-)
Associate Editor, ARC Geophysical Research (2024-)
Associate Editor, Water (2019-2022)
Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology (2012-2018)
Associate Editor, Hydrological Sciences Journal (2013-2019)
Associate Editor, Water Resources Research, AGU, (2003-2009)
Associate Editor, Hydrogeology Journal (2010-2012)
Associate Editor, Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment (2017-)
VicePresident of the International Committee on Ground Water (ICGW), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) (1999-2003)
Secretary of the International Committee on Ground Water (ICGW), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) (2003-2007)
Member of the Editorial Committee, L’Acqua, Associazione Idrotecnica Italiana (1999-2006)
Auditor, Associazione Idrotecnica Italiana (2008-2012)
Councilor, Associazione Idrotecnica Italiana (2023-)
Referee for the international journals Water Resources Research, Transport in Porous Media, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Computational Geosciences Journal of Hydrology, Geophysical Research Letters, SERRA and others.
Referee for italian and foreign research institutions
World Top 2% Scientists, developed by Stanford University
Top Scholar by ScholarGPS (top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide), #92 (lifetime) in category Water Resources , 2024
Honorary Diplomate, European Academy of Water Resources Engineers & Scientists (EAWRES) (2025)
Outstanding Reviewer: Advances in Water Resources (2017), Science of the Total Environment (2017), Journal of Hydrology (2018)
Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Elsevier (2015)
Prize “Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refeering”, American Geophysical Union (2002)
Presidente della Commissione di Programmazione del Dipartimento di Ingegneria (2017-2023)
Membro della Giunta del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria Civile (1999-2002)
Coordinatore della Sezione Bibliotecaria del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile (2000-2013)
Coordinatore dei programmi Erasmus nell’ambito del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria Civile (2000-2003)
Membro della Commissione di Programmazione di Facoltà (2003-2007)
Membro del Consiglio Scientifico della Biblioteca dell’Area Scientico-Tecnologica (BAST) (2003-2007)
Membro del Collegio dei Docenti del Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Civile (2003-present)
Coordinatore del Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Civile (2013-2017)