Personale docente

Born in Novara (Italy), 6 Jul. 1955

1980: Degree in Civil Engineering (Hydraulic section) at Milan Polytechnic, 1980, cum laude.

1989: PhD in Hydraulic Engineering at Milan Polytechnic.

PRESENT POSITION (september 2020)

• March 2012- now: Full Professor in Hydraulic Structures at Department of Engineering and Architecture (DIA), University of Parma
• July 2002- now: member of Academic Senate, University of Parma
• Teacher of Hydrology (9 CFU), Civil and Environmental Engineering Course, University of Parma
• Teacher of River Basin Management (I module, 6 CFU), Environmental and Land Management Engineering Course, University of Parma

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• Director of Department of Civil, Environmental, Land Management and Architecture (DICATeA) (July 2012-dec. 2016), University of Parma
• Chairman of the Environmental and Land Management Engineering Course, University of Parma (nov. 2002- Oct. 2010), University of Parma
• Coordinator of the Doctorate in Civil Engineering (from XVI to XXII course), University of Parma
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Parma University
• Head of the Parma University Hydraulic Laboratory
• Chairman of one of the North Italian Sections of the “Associazione Idrotecnica Italiana” (AII)
• Scientific consultant of the Hydraulic laboratory of the Interregional Agency of the Po River (AIPo)
• Member of the High Risks Commission of Regione Emilia Romagna

MAIN COLLABORATIONS

• Autorità di Bacino del Fiume Po;
• Agenzia Interregionale per il fiume Po (AIPo);
• Servizio Tecnico dei Bacini degli affluenti del Po della Regione Emilia-Romagna (RER);
• Protezione Civile della RER;
• Regione Emilia-Romagna.
• Consorzio di Bonifica di Piacenza;
• Consorzio di Bonifica Parmense.

MEMBERSHIP

• Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica (GII)
• Italian Hydrological Society
• Associazione Idrotecnica Italiana (A.I.I.)
• International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR).

REVIEWER ACTIVITY

Reviewer of national and international Journals (L’Acqua, International Journal of Hydraulic Research, Advances in Water Resources, Applied Ocean Research; WATER, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Modelling and Software, etc.)

MAIN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TOPICS

Author of about 160 papers, published in national and international Journals and Conferences mainly in the following topics:

• urban drainage;
• numerical and physical modelling of unsteady free surface flows;
• dam-break flows; levee breach
• flooding scenarios;
• flood control structures;
• inverse problems applied to surface waters;
• Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) techniques.

THIRD PARTY ENGAGEMENT

Scientific supervisor of more than 50 contracts with Public and Private Agencies mainly on the following topics:

• Physical models of hydraulic structures;
• Hazard scenarios due to levee breaches;
• Hydrologic-Hydraulic assessment of extreme events;
• Flood control reservoirs design and verification;
• Rainfall-runoff models.

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY AND CITATION IMPACT (September 2020)

SCHOLAR: Number of citations: 1553; h-Index: 19; I10-Index: 40 

SCOPUS: Number of citations: 962; h-index: 17; Documents: 58