About

Full Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano since 2003 and Director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2017. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Arizona (USA). Main research activity is related to qualitative and quantitative aspects of groundwater systems and underground energy resources (more than 190 ISI publications; h-index(SCOPUS) = 38). Key roles in EU framework projects (FP5-FP7, H2020: Coordinator, Deputy Coordinator, Project leader, Supervisory Board member, and PI of numerous research projects funded by the industrial sector). Chair of the Communication Committee of the International Society for Porous Media (Interpore). Chair of the Committee on Groundwater Hydraulics and Management of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). Chief Executive Editor of the Journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (EGU) and Associate Editor of the Journals Water Resources Research (AGU) and Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. Recipient of the Chaire Gutenberg and Prix Gutenberg 2018 (Award by Cercle Gutenberg and Région Grand-Est, France, for research on Climate change and water cycle in Upper Rhine Basin). Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2021).

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Universities and Academia

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Research experience spans theoretical/numerical and experimental projects, motivated and funded through applications to real problems, and focused on subsurface flow dynamics of (variably) saturated soils, parameter estimation, inverse modeling, geostatistics, stochastic analyses of flow and transport in geo-chemically active subsurface environments, scaling in hydrology & geophysics, data assimilation, model reduction techniques for the solution of flow and transport problems, and uncertainty quantification in groundwater systems, from the pore- to the laboratory-, field- and basin-scale. Current research activities include (i) environmental protection of groundwater bodies; (ii) stochastic groundwater hydrology, (iii) delineation of wellhead and groundwater source protection regions, (iv) multiscale flow and solute transport in aquifers and reservoirs, (v) multiphase flows, enhanced oil recovery, and shale gas development, (vi) risk based corrective actions of subsurface energy development, (vii) environmental impacts of competitive use of groundwater.

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