Institutional positions (selection)

• Former Director of Water Resources Research & Documentation Center (WARREDOC)
• Visiting Professor at the Institute of Environment of Florida International University (FIU, Miami, USA)
• Owner (contract teacher) of the Hydraulic Infrastructures course at the University of Florence
• Member of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Water Security” at FIU (Miami, USA)
• Scientific coordinator of the “Water and SDGs” theme at the ENI Enrico Mattei Foundation (FEEM)
• Coordinator of the European Nexus-Ness project (2021-2024) financed with 3M euros from the PRIMA program Horizon 2020 on the Water Energy Food Ecosystem Nexus
• Coordinator of the European project CITI4GREEN on behalf of the ENI Enrico Mattei Foundation (FEEM) financed within the EU DG REGION COHESION POLICY 2020
• MIUR appointed expert for Climate Action, Resource Efficiency and Raw Material HORIZON 2020
• Italian representative in the Natural Sciences Commission at the 38th and 39th General Conferences of UNESCO
• Scientific coordinator of agreements and programs for the development of national research activities international on behalf of international organizations (Horizon 2020, Water JPI, Climatic Kic) and bodies national (ISPRA, Lazio Region, CREA, Tiber Basin Authority) for projects on water and environment
• Chair Working Group “Citizens and Hydrology” (CANDHY) International Association of Hydrological Sciences
• Coordinator and Responsible for the Guidelines of the project to update the Structure Plan Hydrogeology of the Tiber and Aniene rivers and of the secondary network for Rome Capital and Basin Authority of Tevere river

Training and academic-professional path

• (2023 – ongoing) University of Rome Tor Vergata – Associate Professor (from October 2023) in the Hydraulic, Maritime and Hydrology Constructions sector (ICAR/02) of the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering (DICII).
• (2021– ongoing) Founder and Honorary President of the Academic Spinoff GRIDDIT SRl specialized in the hydraulic engineering and hydrogeological risk sector, Spinoff University for Foreigners of Perugia.
• (2011 – 2023) University for Foreigners of Perugia – Associate Professor (since November 2017, previously since December 2011 as university researcher) in the Hydraulic Construction, Maritime and Hydrology sector (ICAR/02); Since March 2016 he has been Director of the Water Resources Research and Documentation Center (WARREDOC).
• (2006) Sapienza University of Rome (XVIII cycle) – PhD in Hydraulic Engineering with thesis entitled “Dem Processing for Hydrogeomorphic Applications”. Main research activities. Fluvial hydrology and geomorphology, GIS and hydrological and hydraulic models for hydrogeological risk. PhD tutor: Prof. R. Bras (MIT, USA) Prof. Enrique Vivoni (New Mexico Tech, USA) Prof. Salvatore Grimaldi (Tuscia Univ. Viterbo).
• (2003 – 2006) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) – PhD student at Sapienza/Rome and winner of a CNR-MIT program research grant, carries out research activities mainly abroad as Visiting Phd at the “Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering” of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the Parsons Lab hydrometerology group. 3-year period abroad.
• (A.A. 2000-2003) Sapienza University of Rome / Columbia University of New York. Degree in Civil Engineering, Hydraulics, obtained in 2001 at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome. Master’s thesis entirely developed at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering of Columbia University in New York. 12 month period abroad. After graduating he collaborates with the Department of Hydraulics of Sapienza University and carries out professional scientific consultancy in Italy and abroad as a hydrological-hydraulic modeller.

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