CV

Professional Preparation

• 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

Academic positions

• 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-)

Principal Research Interests

• 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

Activities

• 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

Citations

• International Hydrology Prize - Dooge Medal (2023)

• 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)

Faculty Service

• 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)