Projects in which he held the role of Coordinator/Person in Charge

Scientific Coordinator of Goal 1.1 of the Innovation Ecosystem “Tech4You – Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change and the Improvement of Quality of Life” – Call of the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) for the submission of proposals aimed at the creation and strengthening of “innovation ecosystems” and the development of “territorial R&D leaders” within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), Mission 4 – Education and Research, Component 2 – From Research to Enterprise, Investment 1.5, funded by NextGenerationEU.

One of the Principal Investigators of the three-year research project “INDECIS – Integrated approach for the development across Europe of user-oriented climate indicators for GFCS high-priority sectors: agriculture, disaster risk reduction, energy, health, water and tourism”, within the framework of the “ERA4CS Joint Call on Researching and Advancing Climate Services Development – Topic B” – Coordinator: Enric Aguilar (Universitat Rovira i Virgili – Tarragona) – 2017–2020, funded by the EU.

Scientific Coordinator for CNR-IRPI of the two-year Research and Development project “SMoRI – Smart Monitoring of basins subject to high hydrogeological risk”, within the POR Calabria ERDF–ESF 2014–2020 – Axis I Promotion of Research and Innovation, Specific Objective 1.2, Action 1.2.2 – Coordinator: SIRFIN S.p.A.

Principal Investigator of the research project “ISPARIDE – Identification and estimation of parameters for the assessment of desertification risk” (May 2004 – May 2007), funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research.

Projects in which he was a member of Working Groups

Project “OT4CLIMA – Development of Innovative Observational Technologies for the study of Climate Change and its Impact on the Environment and Territory”, within the PON “Research and Innovation” 2014–2020 – Ministerial Decree 13/7/2017 no. 1735 – Coordinator: CNR.

Project “From population risk perception to social vulnerability in coastal areas subject to climate change: proposal of risk management strategies in two Mediterranean regions”, within the framework of the Bilateral Agreement between CNR and the University of Malta (UM).

Research Project “Reconciling precipitation with runoff: the role of understated measurement biases in the modelling of hydrological processes”, funded by MIUR (PRIN 2015) – Coordinator: University of Genoa.

R&D Project “RMS – FILIERA. Risk Management System and Supply Chain for Hydrogeological Risk Management”, within the POR Calabria ERDF–ESF 2014–2020 – Axis I Promotion of Research and Innovation – Coordinator: SETEGET.

Scientific Agreement between CNR-IRPI and the State Commissioner (OCDPC no. 3862/2010) for scientific and technical consultancy related to studies, surveys, and monitoring in the Municipality of Maierato and in the hamlet of Ianò of the Municipality of Catanzaro (Calabria – Italy).

Scientific Agreement (2003–2004) between CNR-IRPI and ARPACAL on the topic: “Assessment of Erosion Risk in Calabria.”

Project “MIRASAT – Methodology for the estimation of risk indicators through satellite remote sensing”, funded by the Calabria Region – Lead Partner: EPSILON Italia.

Project “Study and experimentation of methodologies and techniques for the mitigation of hydrogeological risk” (lots 1 and 2), POR Calabria 2000–2006 – Axis 1 Natural Resources, Measure 1.4 – Settlement Systems, Action 1.4.c – Study, planning, experimentation, monitoring, evaluation, and information actions aimed at the preparation and management of integrated land protection policies.

Editorial Activities

Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal “Advances in Meteorology” – Wiley Editor.

Topic Editor, together with Guenter Blöschl (Vienna University of Technology) and Marco Mancini (Politecnico di Milano), of the Research Topic “Impacts of Climate Change (CC) on territory and environment: materials and methods for evaluating the various CC-induced hazards and actions for reducing the consequences on communities” for the journal “Frontiers in Earth Science.”

Reviewer for several ISI scientific journals: Journal of Hydrology, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Atmospheric Research, International Journal of Climatology, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Water, etc.

Membership in Scientific Communities

European Geosciences Union (www.egu.eu)
American Geophysical Union (www.agu.org)
Italian Hydrological Society (www.sii-ihs.it/)
Co-coordinator of the European Scientific Team “Drought and Water Resources” of HYMEX (HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment).

Other Activities

He has delivered lectures on hydrogeological risk topics in several first- and second-level University Master’s programs organized at the University of Calabria, as well as in training courses for civil protection operators organized by FORMEZ (Rome) and by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Department of Civil Protection.

He has collaborated with the University of Calabria (CAMILAB laboratory – Laboratory of Environmental Cartography and Hydrological Modeling), where he coordinated the Working Group for the Agreement between the University of Calabria and the National Department of Civil Protection, regarding the application of landslide and flood forecasting models.

He is a member (since the XXXIII cycle) of the Board of Professors of the PhD program in “Environmental, Construction and Energy Sciences and Engineering (S.I.A.C.E.)”, now Geology, Engineering and Science of Sustainable Earth and Energy Transition (G.E.S.E.T.) – University of Calabria.

He has been a member of the Permanent Steering Committee of the degree programs of the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Calabria.

From December 1, 2018 to May 31, 2023, he served as Head of the Cosenza Secondary Office of CNR-IRPI.

From January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019, he served as President of the Cosenza Territorial Research Area of CNR.

Co-supervisor of numerous bachelor’s and master’s theses at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Calabria on hydrogeological risk topics, and of one PhD thesis in Hydraulic Engineering – XX Cycle – at the Politecnico di Milano, as well as Scientific Supervisor of several Research Fellowships at CNR-IRPI – Cosenza Office.

Member of numerous examination committees for research collaboration grants on topics including: land degradation phenomena, desertification processes, extreme hydrological events, analysis of geotechnical data, and slope stability assessments in urban areas.

Author/co-author of numerous works published in international and national journals, or presented at national and international conferences/workshops, on climate trends, drought, soil water erosion, desertification, and extreme events.

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