Biography

Angelica Tarpanelli was born in Assisi, Italy, in 1981. She received her M.S. degree in Civil Engineering with excellence from the University of Perugia in Italy in April 2006. In September 2006 she received a Scholarship and successively a Research Fellowship to carry out research at the Research Institute of Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of the National Research Council (CNR) in Perugia under the project titled “Hydrological Monitoring of Extreme Events”. Since September 2012 she has been a Researcher at CNR-IRPI. In January 2014 she received her PhD in Hydraulic Engineering at University of Perugia. The title of her thesis is “Remote Sensing for Hydraulic Applications in Small-Medium Basins”.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2021: “ESA–EGU Earth Observation Excellence Award” given by European Space Agency and European Geosciences Union recognising the IRPI-Hydrology Group for an outstanding contribution to the innovative use of Earth Observation in Hydrology.
• 2018: “Copernicus Masters competition: BayWa Smart Farming Challenge” given by Copernicus Masters.
• 2017: “Florisa Melone Award” (Co-I) of the project “Monitoring extreme events (floods & drought) through discharge time series obtained from satellite altimetry”, by Camici Stefania, given by Italian Hydrology Society (IHS).
• 2016: “Best poster award IDRA” for “Potenziale dei dati satellitari per la previsione delle piene nel Fiume Benue in Nigeria “, by Tarpanelli A., Amarnath G., Brocca L., Massari C., Barbetta S. and Moramarco T. in the macro-theme “Monitoring, open-date and free software”.
• 2014: “EGU Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award” for “River discharge estimation by using remote sensing data in absence of bathymetry: the Po River case study” by Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Lacava, T., Faruolo, M., Moramarco, T., award given by European Geophysical Union (EGU)
• 2014: “RICERCATAMENTE“ award for the best Italian young scientist in the Earth Science and Environmental Technologies research area. The award is given by the National Research Council and the Accademia dei Lincei.

Projects

Angelica Tarpanelli actively participated (as responsible and coordinator) to several research projects in the frame of Italian and European programs and funded by International space agencies, in collaboration with Italian and International institutions.

International projects

• EO4FLOOD. European Space Agency (ESA), October 2024 – October 2026 (Principal Investigator)
• GLOBAL RIVER DISCHARGE. EUMETSAT, December 2024 – December 2026 (Principal Investigator)
• UAWOS. European Commission (HORIZON programme), February 2023 – January 2027 (Co-Investigator)
• CCI-Discharge. European Space Agency (ESA), January 2023 – July 2024 (Co-Investigator)
• 4DMED-Hydrology. European Space Agency (ESA), November 2021 – November 2023 (Science Leader)
• DTE HYDROLOGY EVOLUTION. European Space Agency (ESA), March 2022 – April 2023 (Participation) 
• STREAMRIDE. European Space Agency (ESA), February 2021 – January 2022 (WP Leader)
• St3TART and St3TART-FO. European Space Agency (ESA), July 2021 – July 2027 (Co-Investigator)
• Cryo-TEMPO. European Space Agency (ESA), October 2020 – December 2025 (Co-Investigator)
• HYDROCOASTAL. European Space Agency (ESA), February 2020 – December 2023 (Co-Investigator)
• FDR4ALT. European Space Agency (ESA), September 2019 – June 2023 (Co-Investigator)
• IRRIGATION+. European Space Agency (ESA), March 2020 – May 2023 (Participation)
• DTE HYDROLOGY. European Space Agency (ESA), September 2020 – September 2021 (Participation)
• RIDESAT European Space Agency (ESA), November 2018 – April 2020 (Principal Investigator)
• IWMI Project . International Water Management Institute, IWMI, April 2015 – July 2015 (Co-Investigator)
• WACMOS IRRIGATION. European Space Agency (ESA), January 2017 -December 2017 (Participation)
• COMMONS. European Space Agency (ESA), October 2014 – October 2016 (WP Leader)
• FLOODMED. European Commission, March 2006 – April 2008 (Participation)

National projects

• Redazione di mappe delle aree allagabili dei corsi d’acqua del reticolo secondario del Fiume Tevere (Rio Grande e Fosso Leonessa) e studio evento di piena 11-14 Novembre 2012 (Paglia-Chiani e Nestore), Umbria Region, December 2012- October 2013 (Coordinator and Responsibility)
• Affidamento incarico per la redazione dello studio per la definizione delle aree inondabili del bacino del T. Genna nelle aree ricomprese tra Pian di Massiano e Ponte della Pietra, Comune Perugia, January 2014 – April 2014 (Coordinator and Responsibility)
• Studio di fattibilità per la messa in sicurezza idraulica dell’area urbana di Pistrino mediante misure di intervento strutturali, Regione Umbria, February 2015 – February 2016 (Participation)
• Aree allagabili del Fiume Tevere in prossimità dell’abitato della Frazione di Pian di San Martino nel Comune di Todi, Provincia Perugia, May 2014 – December 2014 (Participation)
• Redazione di mappe delle aree allagabili dei corsi d’acqua del reticolo secondario del Fiume Tevere (Rio Grande e Fosso Leonessa) e studio evento di piena 11-14 Novembre 2012 (Paglia-Chiani e Nestore), Comunità Europea POR-FESR, December 2012 – November 2013 (Participation)
• Affidamento del servizio inerente l’implementazione operativa dell’elaborazione di scenari dinamici di rischio alluvionale e diffusione risultati su tecnologie web-Gis, anche in ambito recepimento Direttiva alluvioni 2007, Comunità Europea POR-FESR, December 2011 – November 2013 (Participation)
• Studio idrologico del bacino del Fiume Paglia e aggiornamento delle fasce di pericolosità idraulica del tratto terminale del corso principale, Consorzio per la bonifica della Val di Chiana Romana e Val di Paglia, March 2010 – March 2011 (Participation)
• Perimetrazione delle aree inondate, Comunità Europea POR-FESR, June 2009 – June 2011 (Participation)
• SECLI Rischio Siccità e Cambiamento Climatico, Comunità Europea POR-FESR, June 2009 – June 2011 (Participation)
• Scenari dinamici di rischio alluvionale, Comunità Europea POR-FESR, June 2009 – June 2011 (Participation)
• Sicurezza idrologica delle dighe, Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta, November 2008 – October 2009 (Participation)
• Supporto tecnico scientifico per attività connessa al rischio idraulico nel territorio della Regione Umbria ai fini anche della redazione di cartografia delle aree inondate dall’evento alluvionale del novembre-dicembre 2005, Autorità di bacino del Tevere, January 2007 – November 2008 (Participation)
• Elaborazione e modellazione dati idrometeorologici per la previsione e il preannuncio del rischio idraulico con ripristino delle teleferiche, Regione Umbria, June 2006 – April 2012 (Participation)
• Redazione delle mappe di allagabilità per i tratti fluviali del reticolo secondario del Fiume Tevere,Regione Umbria, 2003-2009 (Participation)

Academic and lecturing

• Lecturer for ESA Advances Land Training Course 2017 Godollo (HU) and 2018, Leicester (UK) on River discharge ad lake volume variation using radar altimetry and imaging sensors.
• She has directed 4 M.Sc. theses (national and international) and has been tutor of 2 PhD students. She is a tutor of scholarship at IRPI-CNR.

International activities

• She is steering committee of the “Discharge algorithm working group” for the SWOT mission.
• She is a Member of Cryosat Scientific Expert for inland water applications.
• She is Member of the Italian Hydrological Society, the Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII), the European Geophysical Union (EGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Editorial board, referring, convener activities and conference organization

• Editor di Remote Sensing (MDPI) per la Sezione “Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology”
• Review Editor di Frontiers in Water per la Sezione “Water and Hydrocomplexity”
• Guest editor della Special Issue su Remote Sensing (MDPI): Remote Sensing of Flow Velocity, Channel Bathymetry and River Discharge.
• Guest editor della Special Issue su Remote Sensing (MDPI): Remote Sensing for Flood Mapping and Monitoring of Flood Dynamics.
• Guest editor della Special Issue su Remote Sensing (MDPI): Floods and Landslide Prediction
• 2026: Convener at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria
• 2025: Convener at the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025, Vienna, Austria
• 2025: Convener at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria
• 2024: Convener at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria
• 2023: Convener at European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria.
• 2022: Convener at European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria.
• 2022: Convener at the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, Bonn, Germany
• 2021: Convener at European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria.
• 2020: Member of the Scientific Committee at The Earth Observation for Water Cycle Science 2020, 16-18 November 2020, Versailles, France.
• 2020: Convener at European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria.
• 2019: Convener at European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria.
• 2019: Member of the Scientific Committee and Convener at the 25 Year of progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium, Ponta Delgada Azores Archipelago, Portugal.
• 2018: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria.
• 2017: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria.
• 2017: Convener and chair at the American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, USA.
• 2015: Organizing and Scientific Committee at the Giornate dell’Idrologia, Perugia, Italy.
• 2015: Scientific Committee and Convener at the Third Space for Hydrology Workshop “Surface water storage and runoff: modelling, in situ data and remote sensing”, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
• 2014: Convener at the IAEG XII, Turin, Italy.
• 2013: Organizing Committee at the Florisa Melone Memorial Conference, Assisi, Italy.
• She serves as a referee for leading hydrologic and hydraulic journals with 70+ reviewed papers.