Prof. Francesco Ballio

Politecnico di Milano

Sezione Hidraulica

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About

Born in 1966, full professor of Hydraulics at Politecnico di Milano. Associate member of CNR (National Research Council). Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE). Approximately 100 publications, 40 of them on international journals. 1 patent. 1 book. Research keywords: scour, sediment mechanics, flood risk management, vulnerability, hydraulic monitoring. Rector’s delegate for Relations with the Gulf Countries and Iran. Tenure of courses: Hydraulics (Bach); Fluid Mechanics, Emergency Planning for Hydrogeological Risk (MSc); Experimental Thermo Fluid Dynamics (PhD).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Sediment Transport Flood Risk Bridge Engineering

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Flood Risk Management
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Ecohydraulics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Committee on Flood Risk Management	Co-opted	2022-06-19	Now
Committee on Flood Risk Management	Co-opted	2017-10-30	2019-11-03
Committee on Flood Risk Management	Member	2015-07-15	2022-06-19
IAHR Italy Young Professionals Network	Student Advisor	2012-01-01	Now

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
River Bridge Failures in Italy Along the 21st Millennium	2022
The Movida Project to Support the Update of Flood Risk Maps in the Po River District: Methodology for Flood Damage Assessment	2022
On Experimental Censorship of Particle Hops in Bed-Load Transport	2018
Particle motion and diffusion at weak bed load: accounting for unsteadiness effects of entrainment and disentrainment	2015
Aquatic interfaces: a hydrodynamic and ecological perspective	2014
On the definition of solid discharge in hydro-environment research and applications	2014
Diffusive Properties of Bed Load Moving Sediments at Short Time Scales	2013
Implementing the Floods Directive: A Procedure for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping	2013
Coherent Particle Motion in Bed Load	2010
Turbulent Flow Field Around a 45° Wing-Wall Bridge Abutment in Different Scour Conditions	2010
Applying Image Analysis to Measure the Kinematics of the Solid Phase in Different Phenomena	2009
Local scour at a trapezoidal abutment: sediment motion pattern	2009
Experimental Observations on Sediment Motion Under Weak One-Dimensional Bed Load	2007
An Investigation of the 3D Oscillating Flow Around an Array of Cylinders	2003
A Model for Probabilistic Estimation of Steady-State Catchments of Pumping Wells in Heterogeneous Aquifers	1995

My Videos

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IAHR Awards

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