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I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Padova (Italy). Trained as a civil hydraulic engineer (BSc/MSc) with a PhD in Earth Sciences, I work at the interface between geomorphology, hydrology, and environmental fluid mechanics, investigating how water, sediment, and vegetation interact to shape coastal wetlands, estuaries and deltas, and rivers.
I combine field surveys, remote sensing, numerical modeling, and laboratory experiments to understand how these landscapes respond to climate change and human pressures, including sea-level rise, storms, flow and discharge variability, and engineering interventions and management actions (with a particular focus on human-regulated lagoon systems, including the Venice Lagoon, and on the geomorphic impacts of movable storm-surge barriers such as the Mo.S.E. system). I am particularly fascinated by meandering streamflows, and by how external (allogenic) controls—including hydrology and vegetation—interact with autogenic dynamics to shape their evolution across environments and scales. Before my current position, I was a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (University of Minnesota) and held postdoctoral fellowships at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Center for Lagoon Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics (University of Padova). |
