About

I am a civil engineer, with hydraulics as main topic. I'm currently working as a postdoc researcher at Politecnico di Torino (Italy), where I got the PhD (Jan 2024) with a thesis about the assessment of flood hazard sensitivity on infrastructures in small ungauged watersheds. My research interests cover: i) hydrological and hydraulic hazard on large infrastructures and river intersections; ii) flood hazard assessment in ungauged watersheds; iii) climate change effects on flood risk in mountain areas.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Watershed hydrology, Mountain areas, Flood risk management, Reservoirs

Major Achievements:

- Visiting research positions at the University of Bristol (2023) and the Vienna University of Technology (2024). - Teaching Assistant for the Climatology and Hydrology course in the MSc Environmental Engineering program at PoliTO. - Co-Supervisor of 5 master's students. -Consulting activities for hydrological and hydraulic risk mitigation assessment. PUBLICATIONS 1. Claps, P., Evangelista, G., Ganora, D., Mazzoglio, P., and Monforte, I.: FOCA: a new quality-controlled database of floods and catchment descriptors in Italy, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 1503–1522, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1503-2024, 2024. 2. Evangelista, G., Ganora, D., Mazzoglio, P., Pianigiani, F., Claps, P.: Flood attenuation potential of Italian dams: sensitivity on geomorphic and climatological factors. Water Resour. Manag., 37, 6165-6181, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-023-03649-z, 2024. 3. Evangelista, G., Woods, R., Claps, P.: Dimensional analysis of literature formulas to estimate the characteristic flood response time in ungauged basins: a velocity-based approach, J. Hydrol., 627, 130409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130409, 2023. 4. Demateis Raveri, M., Evangelista, G., Monforte, I.: Taratura del modello FloodAlp su bacini dell’arco alpino nord- occidentale, L’Acqua, 4, 99-108, 2023 (in Italian). 5. Ganora, D., Evangelista, G., Cordero, S., Claps, P.: Design flood hydrographs: a regional analysis based on flood reduction functions, Hydrol. Sci. J., 68(2), 325-340, https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2022.2153051, 2023 - Selected as HSJ Featured Article 2023. RESEARCH PROJECTS FRISBEE (National funding) (Collaborator from Sep 2023) Flood pRediction In Small ungauged Basins of Italy through Enhanced runoff coefficient assessment. Topic: Runoff coefficient estimation through historical data and regionalization. RETURN (EU funding) (Collaborator from Apr 2023) Multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate. Topic: Hydrological hazard assessment over critical infrastructures. RESBA (EU funding) (Collaborator in Nov 2020) REsilienza agli SBArramenti - RESiliencedesBArrages. Topic: Flood volumes estimation.