Paolo Fabbri is an Associate Professor of Hydrogeology (GEOS -3/B) at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua, and holds the National Scientific Qualification for Full Professorship. Since 2015, he has been the coordinator of the Research Group "Hydrostructures of Geothermal Systems (ISG)", at the Interdepartmental Research Center for Energy Economics and Technology "Giorgio Levi Cases", University of Padua. From 2012 to 2021, he served as an elected member of the Italian Committee of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (I.A.H.), and is currently a member of the Mineral and Thermal Water Commission (MTWC) of the I.A.H. From 2019 to 2024, he was an elected member of the Governing Board of the Italian Association of Applied Geology (AIGA) and, since 2021, he has been an elected councilor of the Order of Geologists of the Veneto Region. After earning a degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Padua in 1985, he attended the SMALP (Alpine Military School) in Aosta. He served as an officer in the 4th Alpine Army Corps. From 1986 to 1993, he worked as a contract researcher at the Department of Geology, Paleontology, and Geophysics of the University of Padua under a research agreement on the Euganean Thermal Basin between the Veneto Region and the University of Padua. He particularly focused on the quantification of key hydrogeological parameters of the subsurface. He was a university researcher at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences of the University of Padua from 1994 to 2006. In 1994, he spent a research period at the Hydrogeology Laboratory of the University of Montpellier II (France), and from 2009 to 2012, he was a research associate at the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (CNR). He is an author and co-author of over 70 publications in international and national scientific journals, as well as papers published in international and national conference proceedings. In 2016, he received the "Secondo Franchi" award from the Italian Geological Society for the best scientific paper published in 2014 in the society’s journals, and in 2022, he received the award for the "Best Scientific Paper" published in 2020–2021 in international journals, awarded by the Italian Association of Applied and Environmental Geology (AIGAA). In 2022, he was selected as a distinguished lecturer by the Italian Geological Society. He has been the principal investigator of research projects and contracts on hydrogeological topics with public institutions such as the Eastern Alps River Basin Authority, AATO Venice Lagoon, Veneto Region, and various Provinces. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals: Frontiers in Water (Scopus, WoS), Water (MDPI) (Scopus, WoS), AIMS Environmental Science (WoS), Acque Sotterranee – Italian Journal of Groundwater (WoS, Scopus), and Geologia Tecnica ed Ambientale. He has also served as a reviewer for journals including: Scientific Reports, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Earth Sciences, Rendiconti dei Lincei - Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, Geothermics, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Environmental Modelling & Software, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. He has supervised or co-supervised over 140 Bachelor’s and Master’s theses, and 5 PhD dissertations. He is also a member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences(IAM)

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