(in bold the ongoing projects)
2025- : "Environmental impacts and mitigation measures for pumped storage hydropower in Norwegian reservoirs" (EnviPump), Research Council of Norway - as Research Unit leader.
2023-2025: "SpatiAlly Resolved veLocity and wAves from SAR images in laKES (SARLAKES)", PRIN (Progetto di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) - Italian Ministry of Research. Partners: CNR-IREA (coordinator), UniTrento, University of Brescia.
2022-2025: "Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem (iNEST)". PNRR Spoke 8, "S8_RT1 Biology of hydrosphere ecosystems”, Task S8_RT1.4 “Digital databases and modelling tools for assessing and quantifying freshwater habitat”. Partners: University of Trieste (leader), OGS, UNIPD, UNIVE, PNAEAS, UniTrento.
2021-2024: "Impacts of connecting Norwegian hydropower to continental Europe and the UK (HydroConnect)", Research Council of Norway. Partners: SINTEF Energy Research, NTNU, Fraunhofer IEE from Germany, UniTrento.
2021-2024: “Flood Risk Management: Prevention, Adaptation and Resilient Strategies in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Resilient approaches, Urban and landscape design, Hydraulic and water design”, PGR01302, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale. Partners: IUAV, UniTrento, Vietnam National University.
2021-2023: ALPLAKES. European Space Agency (ESA). Partners: Eawag (Switzerland), CNR-IREA, UniTrento.
2020-2021: “Development of an integrated monitoring and modelling system for Ypacaraí Lake (Paraguay)” (MOLYP), Consejo Nacional De Ciencia Y Tecnología (CONACYT), Paraguay. Partners: Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Catholic University (Paraguay), UniTrento.
2023-2024: "Strumenti di monitoraggio e previsionali sullo stato di QUalità delle Acque Superficiali (SQUAS)", Caritro Ricerca e Sviluppo 2022. PI: Sebastiano Piccolroaz.
2021-2023: “Research activities on lake eutrophication”, Provincia Autonoma di Trento. Partners: APPA Trento, UniTrento. PI: Marco Toffolon.
2019-2020: “Evaluation of the performances of the oxygenation system in Lake Serraia and identification of options to improve the efficiency of the system”, Provincia Autonoma di Trento. PI: Marco Toffolon.
2019-2020: “Estimate of the effects of the release of hypolimnetic withdrawal from Lake Caldonazzo in the Brenta River”, Provincia Autonoma di Trento . PI: Marco Toffolon.
2018: "Analysis of nutrient dynamics in Lake Caldonazzo and evaluation of management options to reduce deepwater phosphorous", Provincia Autonoma di Trento. PI: Marco Toffolon.
2025-2031: "Engineering for Environmental Sustainability and International Cooperation" (EESIC), Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters - as Project Coordinator: the University of Trento (Italy) with the participation of Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa (Portugal) and Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain).
2021-2023: "Engineering for Environmental Sustainability and International Cooperation" (EESIC),Erasmus Mundus Design Measures (EMDM) project coordinated by the University of Trento (Italy), with the participation of Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa (Portugal) and Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain).
2018-2021: “Tools for Enhancing and Assessing the Value of International Experience for Engineers” (TA VIE), Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for higher education (KA203). Coordinator: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
Research projects
"Glacier Retreat in the Alps: Characterising the Evolution of proglacial Lakes and Assessing New Dynamics in these Systems" (GRACELANDS), Research Südtirol/Alto Adige 2024 - as Project Coordinator (January 2025)
"Satellite and in situ Observations to support Numerical modeling of lake DynAmics" (S-ONDA), CNR PROgramma di RIcerca Spaziale di base (PRORIS) - as Research Unit Responsible (February 2025)
Events
Candidate as Host of the 2027 World Lake Conference (WLC) - as Head of the Scientific Committee and Local Organizing Committee (January 2025)
Cost Action "CA23160 - Effective Lake management: reducing cyanobacteria by actions in the catchment" (CYANOACTION)
Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON), 2015-present
UNESCO Chair in Engineering for Human and Sustainable Development, DICAM UniTrento, 2023-present
International Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters (PPNW), 2014-present
Local organizing committee of 10th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2017), Trento-Padova (Italy), 15-22 September 2017
Group “Global Lake Temperature Collaboration” (GLTC), 2015
Specialist Group on Lake and Reservoir Management of the International Water Association (IWA), 2015-2023
Steering Committee of the XXXIV Italian Conference of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions (IDRA14), Bari (Italy), 8-10 September 2014
Scientific Council of GII (Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica – Italian Group of Hydraulics), 2013-2016
Marie Curie fellow (project DEWAX, 2011)
Council of the Trentino-Alto Adige Section of the Federazione Italiana di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica, Automazione, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni (AEIT), 2005-2007.
International Society of Limnology (SIL), first time: 2016
Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA), first time: 2015
Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), first time: 2014
International Water Association (IWA), first time: 2013
European Geosciences Union (EGU), first time: 2008
Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica (GII, Italian Group of Hydraulics), the association of the Italian scholars in the field of hydraulics, hydrology, and hydraulic constructions, 2000-present