Degree in Hydraulic Civil Engineering with distinction in 1986, University of Bari. PhD in Hydrodynamics in 1993, Genoa, Padua, Florence, Trento. Post-doc at the University of Florence, from 1994 to 1996. Post-doc in the Human Capital Mobility Programme at Hydraulics Research Wallingford, UK. Participant in the Large Installation Plan at Delft Hydralics Lab, The Netherland, 1993. Confirmed Researcher in Hydraulics at the Faculty of Engineering of Parma since 1998. Associate Professor since 2005. Full Professor since 2018.
Academic appointments
Research and Third Mission Delegate of the Department, from 2017 to 2019. Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2020-2022. Director of the Doctoral School in Engineering and Architecture (SDIA), 2021-2022.
Member of the Selection Committee for the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) Sector 08/A1 Hydraulics, Hydrology, Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions, SSDD ICAR/01, ICAR/02 - biennium 2021/2023.
Internationalisation
Invited Professor at the University of Western Brittany, Brest (F) 1 May-8 June 2001. Invited Professor on sabbatical leave at CEAMA, University of Granada, Spain, March-July 2010. Invited Academic Visitor at CUED, University of Cambridge, UK, March-July 2012 By Fellow of Churchill College, Lent Term 2012, Cambridge, UK.
Responsible for research protocols with the University of Granada, of Cordoba, of Maryland (USA).
Coordinator for the Parma unit of the Italy-Spain co-operation project 2000, in collaboration with the University of Santander, Spain.
Research interests
Generation of gravity waves; numerical modelling of refraction and diffraction processes; transport of sediments in fluvial and marine environments; velocity measurements with LDA and Doppler profilometers, sediment concentration measurements; 2D and 3D PIV; study and modelling of turbulence; rheology of debris-flows; instability phenomena of roll-waves; self-similar solutions of gravity currents of Newtonian fluids, in inertial and viscous regimes, of non-Newtonian fluids, in viscous regimes.
Beneficiary of the "Fund for basic research activities" - FFABR (Associate Professor category), year 2017.
Editorial and publishing activities
Associate Editor for Water Resources Research (AGU). Associate Editor for Geoenergy Science and Engineering (Elsevier).
Author of more than 100 publications indexed on Scopus, author and co-author of 6 monographs and textbooks for Springer and McGraw-Hill.
Third Mission
He has carried out an intense consulting activity in the field of maritime hydraulics, with over 40 consultancies for the design of ports and coastal protection works, designing or participating in the creation of physical models of hydraulic and maritime works.
Non-judicial Magistrate of the Regional Court of Public Waters (TRAP) of Florence, 2004-2018.
