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VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD

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0498272677

CV (english), CV (italian)

POSITIONS
■ Full Professor – Dept. of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (University of Padova)
■ Visiting Professor – Dalian University of Technology (PR China)
■ Adjunct Professor – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania)
■ Adjunct Professor – University of Georgia (US)
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■ Member Board of Directors: Galilean School of Higher Education (University of Padova)
■ Vice President – Soil and Water Conservation division, Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA)
■ Principal Investigator – Earth Surface Processes & Society Research Group consisted in more than 10 early career scientists from differnet countries in the world (https://www.linkedin.com/in/earthsurfs/)

EDITORIAL POSITIONS (tot. 14)
■ Executive Editor – Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
■ Associate Editor – International Soil and Water Conservation Research, Land Degradation & Development, Remote Sensing
■ Editorial Board Member – Science of the Total Environment, Geography and Sustainability, iScience, The Innovation Geoscience, Cell Reports Sustainability, Evolving Earth, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Journal of Mountain Science, Pirineos (CSIC), Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias

RESEARCH PROJETS
■ Horizon EU - PHITO (Platform for Helping small and medium farmers to Incorporate digital Technology for equal Opportunities) 5,025,000 € (PI of WP3)
■ Seawater intrusion monitoring in Lazio region (Land Reclamation Authority of Litorale Nord) 35,000 € (PI)
■ Agritech - National Research Centre for Agricultural Technologies 320,000,000 € (co-PI of WP4.2, Smart climate agriculture and forestry: from sustainable products to the bioeconomy)
■ Sustainable management of water and soil in agriculture (Land Reclamation Authority of LEB) 25,000€ (PI)
■ SOiLUTION SYSTEM (EU rural develop. program – Veneto Region) 450,000€ (Scientific Coordinator, co-PI)
■ FITOCHE (EU rural development grant – Veneto Region) 300,000€ (PI of WP4)
■ TerrACE (EU H2020 ERC-AdG) 2,600,000€ (PI of WP1)
■ ViTe (Univ. of Padova) 60,000€ (PI)
■ HighLandDEM (ENVIMED French cooperation initiative) 18,000€ (PI of WP2)
■ CPDR147412/14 – Artificial drainage networks evolution in Veneto floodplain (Univ. of Padova) 46,666€ (PI)
■ NIP (POR FESR) 608,024€ (team member)
■ CPDR122903/12 – Use of high resolution topography for the automatic definition of geometric elements of the hydrographic network (Univ. of Padova) 22,946€ (PI)

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Pubblicazioni

Google Scholar, SCOPUS

Publication metrics: Google Scholar (h-index 56, total citations 10884), SCOPUS (h-index 49, total citations 7854). Ranked in the list of world’s top 2% scientists: top 0.16% in the category geological & geomatics engineering (source Scopus by Elsevier BV & Stanford University).

He published more than 185 papers (4 invited review, 3 invited perspective) including articles in prestigious jounral such as Nature Food, 3 edited books, 42 invited talks at international meetings (EGU, IGC, AAG, ISPRS, RGS-IBG, AOGS, Soil Science Society of China) and academies (e.g., Princeton University, Nanyang Technological University, EPFL, Beijing Normal University, Dalian University of Technology, AgroParisTech, Massey University, Tongji University, …), and more than 200 presentations at international and national conferences.

Area di ricerca

Expert in digital terrain analysis, earth surface processes analysis, hydro-geomorphology, remote sensing, and GIS. New research directions focus on agricultural landscapes under climate change scenarios; sustainable agriculture to mitigate the impact of weather extremes on soils; heroic agriculture and its heritage preservation.

Tesi proposte

Humans-Earth interactions; Soil and Water Resources Management; Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural impact on water resources; Agricultural Water Management; Drought in Agriculture; Effects of urbanization and technological innovation in agriculture; Earth-Surface Processes analysis through high-resolution topography; Land Degradation; Landslide and erosion processes analysis; Digital Terrain Analysis; Lidar applications; Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry, drones.