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Full Professor of Hydraulics, University of Padua, Italy, since 1976, he has been Director of the Department of Hydraulic, Maritime, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering (IMAGE) from 1996 till 2002. Author of more than 100 papers, in the last years he has mostly worked in the field of fluvial and coastal hydraulics, with special emphasis on large-scale morphological effects of human interventions and climatic change. Committee member of the Fluvial Hydraulics Section of the IAHR (Int. Ass. for Hydraulics Research), which has chaired from 1991 to 1995; he also chaired the IAHR's Division of Geophysical Hydraulics from 1995 to 1999. He has organized the 32nd Congress of IAHR in Venice in 2007. Vice-president of the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER) and then President since 2010. Member of the Italian delegation in the UNESCO's Full Professor of Hydraulics, University of Padua, Italy, since 1976, he has been Director of the Department of Prof. Fuentes was Secretary of the Latin American Division of IAHR during the period 1978-2006. In this role he strongly influenced for three decades, Latin American researchers and engineers in participating and organising the regular Latin America Division biennial congresses -15 during his term - which in the most recent editions received more than 400 technical International Hydrological Programme (IHP), he is a member of the Steering Committee of the Unesco’s ISI (International Initiative on Sedimentation) He has frequently served as referee for the Journal of Hydraulic Research, the International Journal of Sedimentation, the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, the Continental Shelf Research and several other periodicals. He has been lecturer and advisor for post-graduate students in Italy and other countries. Consultant of engineering firms he has taken part in several projects of hydraulic works and water resources management in Italy, very often regarding the defence of Venice and its lagoon, and abroad. He has also consulted in various developing countries as Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Somalia and Venezuela.

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