Education
2013-2015
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sciences of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Italy) (Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Gambolati).
2014
Colorado State University (Colorado, USA), research period at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Domenico Baù).
2009-2012
Master degree in Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Italy). Thesis title: Spatial Distribution of Tidally-averaged diffusion coefficient in the Venice Lagoon (Advisor: Prof. Andrea Defina)
2011
Technical University of Denmark (Denmark), Erasmus program.
2006-2009
Bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Italy). Thesis title: Evaluation of bioaccumulation and translocation of heavy metals in suitable plant species for Phytoextraction (Advisor: Prof. Luca Palmeri).
Academic Experience
2023 – present
Research Fellow, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Italy).
2020 – 2022
Research Technologist, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Italy).
2019 – 2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Italy). Research topic: Data assimilation techniques for the simulation of an offshore gas reservoir.
2018 – 2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Italy). Research topic: Geomechanical modelling of transitional coastal environments.
2016 – 2017
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Italy). Research topic: Data Assimilation algorithms for reservoir geomechanics and induced seismicity.
Teaching
2022/2023 Teaching Assistant of Underground Fluids, Energy and Environment (master class in Environmental Engineering), University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
2021/2022 Teaching Assistant of Underground Fluids, Energy and Environment (master class in Environmental Engineering), University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
2020/2021 Teaching Assistant of Underground Fluids, Energy and Environment (master class in Environmental Engineering), University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
2019/2020 Teaching Assistant of Numerical Methods and Programming undergraduate class in Aerospace Engineering), University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
2017/2018 Teaching Assistant of Numerical Methods and Programming (undergraduate class in Civil Engineering), University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
2016/2017 Teaching Assistant of Numerical Methods and Programming (undergraduate class in Civil Engineering), University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
2017 Teaching Assistant of Numerical Methods and Programming (undergraduate class), École Nationale Supérieure de Travaux Publiques (ENSTP), Yaoundé, Cameroon.
2015/2016 Teaching Assistant of Numerical Methods and Programming (undergraduate class in Environmental Engineering), University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Academic supervision
Master students:
2022 Giulio Carazzolo, co-supervised, University of Padova
Giulia Meneghini, co-supervised, University of Padova
2021 Gasparotto Alessandro, co-supervised, University of Padova
Selena Baldan, co-supervised, University of Padova
2020 Anita Rigoni, co-supervised, University of Padova
Eugenia Parrella, co-supervised, University of Padova
2019 Riccardo Xotta, co-supervised, University of Padova
2018 Laura Gazzola, co-supervised, University of Padova
Membership of Scientific Societies
2021 – ongoing Associate Member of the UNESCO Land Subsidence International Initiative
2018 – ongoing UNESCO-IGCP Project 663: Impact, Mechanism, Monitoring of Land Subsidence in Coastal cities.
2014 – 2019 UNESCO-IGCP Project 641: Mechanisms, monitoring and modeling earth fissure generation and fault activation due to subsurface fluid exploitation.
since 2015 American Geophysical Union (AGU)
since 2017 European Geosciences Union (EGU)
2015 – 2017/2021 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Awards & Honors
2021 SEAL OF EXCELLENCE award with the project n. 101062246 titled PRESERVE (Plant Roots as bio-foundations for rESiliEnt tRansitional enVironmEnts) and submitted to the call Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01.
2020 SEAL OF EXCELLENCE award with the project n. 101027105 titled PRESERVE (Plant Roots as bio-foundations for rESiliEnt tRansitional enVironmEnts) and submitted to the call Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions H2020-MSCA-IF-2020.
2016 Thesis award winner of the “Gustavo Sclocchi” Theses Awards 2016 for Doctors of Philosophy and University Graduates in Petroleum Engineering, Geo-Sciences and other disciplines related to the Oil & Gas Industry.
2015 First Edition winner of the “5 minutes speech contest” organized at the 12° Offshore Mediterranean Conference – OMC 2015, Ravenna (Italy), March 25-27.
Organization of Scientific Meetings
2021 EGU General Assembly 2021, organization of the session titled ‘From the Source to the Sea: rivers, estuaries, deltas, marshlands, and coastal seas under global changes’
2016 Member of the organizing committee of the 2nd International Workshop on Coastal Subsidence, Venice (Italy).
2015 Data assimilation in subsurface applications: advances in model uncertainty quantification, mini-symposium organized at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Geosciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Training/Workshops/Exchanges
2020 Venice salt marshes as a carbon sink: from theory to practice – Workshop organised by We Are Here Venice, Venice, Italy
2019 Compaction Modelling Workshop organised by Matt Brain – Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham
2017 PARAMetric UNCertainty – Workshop and summer school on Uncertainty Quantification, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Scientific exchange investigating the application of surrogate models in land subsidence modelling at Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
Projects
2020 – 2022 RESERVOIR – Sustainable groundwater RESources managEment by integrating eaRth observation deriVed monitoring and flOw modelIng Results (PRIMA Programme, European Union)
2020 – 2022 HIETE – The Holocene Imprint on the future Evolution of Transitional Environments (Fondazione CaRiPaRo – Cariverona)
2018 – 2021 Venezia 2021 – Programma di ricerca scientifica per una laguna “regolata” (CoRiLa)
2015 – 2019 Mechanisms, Monitoring and Modeling Earth Fissure generation due to subsurface Fluid exploitation (UNESCO – IGCP)
2017 – 2018 UGS – Safe Operational Bandwidth – Phase I and II (Ministry of Economic Affairs of The Netherlands)
2018 – 2019 Revisione delle metodologie allo stato dell’arte per la simulazione previsionale della subsidenza (eni S.p.A.)
2016 – 2017 Vertical evolution of transitional environments (CoRiLa)