Degrees and Posts

2018-2024, national habilitation (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale) enabling to cover the role of Full Professor in any Italian university in the field of Geophysics.

2017-2023, national habilitation (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale) enabling to cover the role of Full Professor in any Italian university in the field of Hydraulics, Hydrology, Hydraulic and Coastal Structures.

2016-present, Associate Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (University of Trento, Italy).

2012-2016, Professore Aggregato (Aggregate Professor), Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento (Italy).

2005-2016, Ricercatore confermato (roughly equivalent to Assistant Professor or Lecturer), Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (formerly Faculty of Engineering and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), University of Trento (Italy).

2003-2005, Post-doc fellow (University of Trento, Italy): “Morphodynamic models of tidal systems. Analysis of the hydrodynamic behaviour and of the plano-altimetric evolution of tidal channels”.

2000-2003, Dottorato di ricerca (equivalent to Ph.D. or Doctorate of research) in “Hydraulic Engineering and Modelling of Environmental Systems” (University of Padua, Italy): “Hydrodynamics and morphodynamics of tidal channels”.

1999, Laurea (five years, equivalent to M.Sc. Degree) in “Environmental Engineering”, 110/110 with honours (University of Trento, Italy): “On the formation of tidal meanders: linear stability theory”.

International Experience

2016, 2017: Visiting professor at School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China).

2014 (March-April): Visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL), collaborating with prof. A. Wüest (EPFL and Eawag).

2011 (May-November): Guest Scientist at the Department of Surface Waters - Research and Management, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland, within the project DEWAX (Modelling DEep WAter miXing in lakes), co-funded by European Commission and Provincia Autonoma di Trento (Marie Curie actions, project Trentino - PCOFUND-GA-2008-226070, Researcher 2010 outgoing - Call 4), in collaboration with prof. A. Wüest.

2001 (September-November): Visiting scientist at the Section of Hydraulic Engineering, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). Research project: Macro-scale morphological characterisation of the Western Scheldt (Delft Cluster). Supervisor prof. Huib de Vriend (TUDelft).

Main Departmental Activities

• Head of the Study Programme in Environmental Engineering (M.Sc. and B.Sc.), Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (since 2018).

• Deputy Director for International Relations, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (since 2016).

• Departmental Delegate for Erasmus projects (European student exchange network) for “Environmental Engineering” (2009-2018) and “Energy Engineering” (2014-2018).

Editorial Activities and Boards

Associate Editor:

• Journal of Hydrology (ISSN 0022-1694) since 2014.

• Journal of Limnology (eISSN 1723-8633) since 2015.

• Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water management (ISSN 1741-7589), 2012-2016.

Guest Editor:

• Special Issue (2016) “Ecogeomorphological feedbacks of water fluxes, sediment transport and vegetation dynamics in rivers and estuaries” of Advances in Water Resources (ISSN: 0309-1708).

• Special Issue (2018) “Understanding the Impact of Human Interventions on Estuarine Systems, Using Pearl River Delta as a Model System” of Ocean and Coastal Management (ISSN: 0964-5691).

Editorial Boards:

• Member of the “Comitato scientifico” (Scientific committee) of the Quaderni di Idrodinamica (Società Editrice Esculapio, Bologna, Italy) since 2019.

Reviewer:

• Peer review of more than one hundred manuscripts in almost 50 international journals.

• Reviewer for projects funded by several national and international institutions.

• Italian assessment of the quality of research (VQR 2004-2010, VQR 2011-2014).

Scientific Committees:

• Member of the International Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters (PPNW), 2014-present.

• Chair of the workshop GARDEN (Lake Garda Environmental System) 2017, Trento, 2 February 2017.

• Chair of the Organizing Committee of 17th International Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters (PPNW), Trento (Italy), 1-4 July 2014.

• Member of the Local organizing committee of 10th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2017), Trento-Padova (Italy), 15-22 September 2017.

• Member of the Steering Committee of the XXXIV Italian Conference of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions (IDRA14), Bari (Italy), 8-10 September 2014.

• Convener – session “Mescolamento, trasporto e dinamiche termiche in fiumi, laghi e mare: dialogo tra fisica e biologia”, XXV Congresso dell’Associazione Italiana di Oceanologia e Limnologia (AIOL), 30 June - 2 July 2021.

• Convener – session “Water temperature in a changing climate: processes, implications, and managing strategies” at the 5th IAHR Europe Congress 2018, Trento (Italy), 12-14 June 2018.

• Convener – session “Temperature dynamics and thermal structure in lakes and rivers” at XXXIII Congress of the International Society of Limnology (SIL 2016).

• Convener – session “Ecogeomorphology of estuarine systems” at 55th and 56th Conference of Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA 2015-2016).

• Convener – session “Estuarine processes” at EGU General Assembly (2008-2015).

• Member of the Scientific Council of GII (Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica – Italian Group of Hydraulics), 2013-2016. The Scientific Council is the steering committee composed by six representatives elected at the national level among the scholars involved in hydraulic and hydrologic disciplines.

Other activities

• Owner of the “lakes list” (lakes@list.dicam.unitn.it), a distribution list created after PPNW2014 and used by the physical limnology community worldwide.

• Marie Curie fellow (project DEWAX, 2011).

Awards

2016, “Coastal Engineering Journal Award” of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) .

2013, "Enrico Marchi Junior Lecture” invited by the Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII).