Water engineering

Analysis of water-related issues relative to hydraulics, hydrology, coastal engineering and water resources management, and their implications on several Engineering branches

Research activities deal with the analysis of water-related issues linked to hydrology, hydraulic, coastal engineering and water resources management. Research topics include: mechanics of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, rainfall-runoff models, streamflow predictions in ungauged basins, flood risk assessment, monitoring and mitigation, design and management of hydraulic networks and infrastructures, fluvial hydro-morpho dynamics, flow in porous media, coastal hydro-morpho dynamics, coastal risk assessment, marine renewable energy, hydropower systems, water security and climate variability.

(The picture shows the "Chiusa di Casalecchio di Reno", Casalecchio's dam on the Reno River, Europe's most ancient "hydraulic monument".
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Il_fiume_Reno_e_la_Chiusa.jpg )

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Sajad Aghaali

Research fellow

Renata Archetti

Full Professor

keywords: Integrated coastal zone management, Risk assesement, Coastal hydrodynamics and morphodynamics, Physical modelling,

Gilberto Bonaga

Assistant professor

keywords: Carstic water sources, EGS, LANDSLIDES, Subsidence, SUBMERGED CAVES, WATER WELL

Alessandra Bonoli

Full Professor

keywords: Raw material processing, Sustainability and SDGs, Circular Economy and Urban Mining, Life Cycle Thinking and LCA, Green

Cristiana Bragalli

Associate Professor

keywords: water shortage, optimization algorithm, smart water meter, water distribution network, energy efficiency, water losses,

Armando Brath

Full Professor

keywords: FLOOD-RISK MITIGATION, WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, UNGAUGED BASINS, RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS, MODELS OF FLOOD-PLAIN

Attilio Castellarin

Full Professor

keywords: Hydrologic predictions ungauged basins, Flood-risk assessment and mitigation, Frequency analysis of hydrological

Serena Ceola

Associate Professor

keywords: flood risk, stream ecology, GIS data analysis, hydrology, ecohydrology, remote sensing, hydrological and anthropogenic

Chiara Cincotta

PhD Student

keywords: drinking water distribution systems, water leakages, leakage detection

Valentina Ciriello

Associate Professor

keywords: groundwater hydraulics, porous media, management of water withdrawals, urban water system, reduction of water losses,

Elisa Dallavalle

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Wave Energy Converters (WECs), Mooring systems, Multi-use off-shore platforms, Renewable energies

Vittorio Di Federico

Full Professor

keywords: environmental hydraulics, probabilistic risk analysis, gravity currents, polynomial chaos expansion, fractured media,

Paola Di Fluri

PhD Student

Alessio Domeneghetti

Associate Professor

keywords: Flood hazard, Hydrology, Hydraulic model, Remote Sensing, Flood risk

Fabio Fava

Full Professor

keywords: Biotech production of flavors, Biotech production of biochemicals and biofuels, Bioremediation of contaminated soils

Sara Mizar Formentin

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Elisa Girometti

PhD Student

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

Alessandro Lenci

Research fellow

keywords: Non-Newtonian Fluids, Fractured media, Stochastic Approach, Environmental hydraulics, Numerical Modeling, Transport

Giulia Libero

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: modeling of natural and artificial hydraulic sistems, water saving in agricolture, water network leaks, biomedical

Rezar Lleshi

PhD Student

keywords: Sedimentation, Hydraulics, Hydrology, Numerical modeling, Hydropower

Carla Maggetti

PhD Student

keywords: Wastewater treatment, Adsorption, Ion exchange, Pharmaceutical compounds, Nutrients

Marco Maglionico

Associate Professor

keywords: Water distribution systems, Sewer systems, Nature Based Solutions, Mathematical modelling, WSUD - Water Sensitive Urban

Andrea Magnini

Research fellow

keywords: Remote sensing, Hydraulic risk, Hydraulic hazard, Rainfall extreme values, Machine learning, Hydraulic modelling

Maurizio Mancini

Associate Professor

keywords: sea outfall, eutrophication, wastewater reuse, combined nitrification, on site wastewater treatments, wastewater

Alberto Montanari

Full Professor

keywords: Peak river flows, Uncertainty, Floods, Hydrological simulation, Climate change, Hydrology

Mattia Neri

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Rainfall-runoff modelling, Regionalisation, Hydrological similarity, Water resource management

Irene Palazzoli

Research fellow

keywords: Human pressure on water resources, remote sensing, numerical modelling, data analysis, hydrology, climate dynamics

Maria Rosaria Pascale

PhD Student

Natasha Petruccelli

PhD Student

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Climate change, Flood Risk

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