Personale docente

Andrea Maranzoni

Associate Professor of Hydraulics (S.S.D. ICAR/01 – Hydraulics)

Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma

Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, Parma, I-43124, Italy

E-mail: andrea.maranzoni@unipr.it

ORCID 0000-0001-8841-1397

Metrics Overview (Scopus; June, 2021): Documents 24; Citations: 397; h-index: 11

Personal

Born on July 22, 1973 in San Secondo Parmense (Parma, Italy)

Education

- March 2004: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Curriculum: Hydraulic Engineering), University of Parma, Italy. Ph.D. thesis on “Numerical and physical modelling of 2D unsteady free surface flows”.

- February 2000: Degree in Civil Engineering (cum laude), University of Parma, Italy. Master Degree thesis on “Numerical simulation and experimental verification of mixed flows in pipes”.

Academic Experience

- February 2019- today: Associate Professor of Hydraulics at the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

- December 2008-February 2019: Assistant Professor of Hydraulics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

- January 2005-December 2008: Assistant Professor of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Structures at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.

2004: Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

Research Interests

- Numerical and physical modelling of unsteady free surface flows

- Shallow water equations

- Assessment of flood hazard due to levee breach or dam-break

- Probabilistic mapping of flood hazard

- Mathematical modelling of mixed (free surface-pressurized) flows

- Flood routing in rivers and mitigation of flood hazard

- Hydrodynamic actions of floods on structures

- Finite volume methods for shallow water models

- Imaging techniques for water surface measurement

- Analysis of seismic-induced flow motions

- Analysis of the performance of side weirs

- Analysis of spatially varied flows

Teaching Experience

- 2017-today: Environmental and Coastal Hydraulics, 2^nd Module (Master’s Degree Course in Civil Engineering, University of Parma, Italy)

- 2016-today: Fluid Mechanics (Bachelor’s Degree Course in Mechanical Engineering, University of Parma, Italy)

- 2009-2015: Hydraulics (Bachelor’s Degree Course in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Parma, Italy)

- 2007-2008: Hydraulics AB, 1^st Module (Bachelor’s Degree Course in Civil Engineering, University of Parma, Italy)

- 2005-2008: Environmental Hydraulics (Master’s Degree Course in Environmental and Land Management Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy)

Advising PhD students

Susanna Dazzi, Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering, University of Parma, 2013-2015.

Advising Master and Bachelor students

Advisor and co-advisor of 30 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree theses at the Universities of Parma and Brescia, Italy.

Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Advances in Dam-Break Modeling for Flood Hazard Mitigation: Theory, Numerical Models, and Applications in Hydraulic Engineering”, MDPI Water (ISSN 2073-4441). Co-Editors: Francesca Aureli and Gabriella Petaccia.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/dam_model_flood_hydraulic

Referee activities

Reviewer for: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Wiley), Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE), Applied Mathematical Modelling (Elsevier), Environmental Fluid Mechanics (Springer), Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics (Taylor & Francis), Advances in Water Resources (Elsevier), Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Canadian Science Publishing), Plos One (Public Library of Science), Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management (ICE Publishing), Urban Water Journal (Taylor & Francis), Water (MDPI), Water Science and Technology (IWA Publishing).

https://publons.com/researcher/1414425/andrea-maranzoni/

Funding

2018 - Annual funding for basic research (FFABR) of the Italian Ministry for Education, MIUR (€ 3000)

Research projects

RELAID: REnaissance of LArge Italian Dams, financed by the Italian Ministry for Education, MIUR, 2020-2022 (total 600000 €). Participant in the Parma University Research Unit.

https://relaid.wordpress.com/

Coordination activities

2020-today: Vice Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy

https://dia.unipr.it/en/Faculties_Board

Memberships

Member of the Italian Hydraulic Group (GII)

Member of the Faculty Board of the PhD Programme in Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy

Member of CIDEA - Interdepartmental Center for Energy and the Environment, University of Parma, Italy

Member of  the Order of Engineers of Parma, Italy, since 2000.