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PAOLO FABBRI

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Position

Professore Associato

Address

VIA G. GRADENIGO, 6 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498279124

Paolo Fabbri is an Associate Professor of Hydrogeology and he has the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor. He is the coordinator of the "Geothermal System Hydrostructures (GSH)" Research group at the Interdepartmental Centre "Giorgio Levi Cases" for Energy Economics and Technology, Padova University. He is an elected member of the Italian chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (I.A.H.) and a member of the Mineral and Thermal Water Commission (MTWC) of the I.A.H.
He received in 1985 his Graduation in Geological Sciences (Hydrogeology) at the University of Padova and he was Army Officer, 4th Alpine Army Corps, during 1985-1986. The period 1986-1993 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Geology, Paleontology, and Geophysics of the University of Padova, in a project funded by the Veneto Region, from 1993 to 2006 he was an Assistant Professor of hydrogeology at the same University. From 2009 to 2012 he was an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, (IGG-CNR). In 1994 he was a fellow at the Laboratorie d'Hydrogeologie, Université de Montpellier II (F). His research interests are hydrogeological parameterization of fissured and porous aquifers and application of geostatistical methodologies to the principal geological and hydrogeological variables (variographic analysis, prevision, and simulation techniques). He is or has been responsible for hydrogeological research projects and agreements. He is an Associate Editor of Water (MDPI)(Scopus, WoS), AIMS Environmental Science (WoS), and the Italian Journal of Groundwater (WoS, Scopus). He has been the reviewer of Geothermics, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Earth Sciences, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Environmental Modelling & Software, Environmental Monitoring, and Assessment. He is a member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (I.A.M.G.), of the A.I.G.A.A. and the National Association of Geologists. He is the author of more than 70 scientific papers. He received the "Secondo Franchi" Award from the Italian Geological Society for the 2014 best paper of the Italian Journal of Geosciences. In 2022 he was a distinguished lecturer of the Italian Geological Society. He has been a supervisor of more than 110 (graduate/undergraduate) and 5 Ph.D. thesis.

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Office hours

  • Tuesday from 10:00 to 11:00
    at Dipartimento di Geoscienze

Research Area

i) Application of geostatistical methods in hydrogeology
Predictions and simulations both of continuous (e.g. transmissivity, concentrations
of pollutants, etc.) and categorical (e.g. lithologies) variables.
These studies concern spatial distribution of hydrogeological variables starting
from a detailed variographic/transiographic analysis. They also concern
methodologies of previsions and simulations, kriging and no kriging based on.
ii) Hydrogeology of geothermal areas
Hydrogeological investigations on thermal hydrostructures. Regime analysis
to define potentiometric trends and the relationship among the different
thermal aquifer layers. Conceptual and numerical modelling of geothermal
hydrostructures.
iii) Hydrogeological parameterization of aquifers
Execution and interpretation of aquifer and well tests to define aquifer permeability
and storativity. The study is focused on the Venetian plain and based on characterization of aquifers and on definition of empirical relationships between Specific Capacity and Transmissivity.