Biography

I was born in Padova, Italy, in 1986. After high school, I started the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Padova (Bachelor and Master), where I followed the 'soil protection' curriculum. During my Master studies I spent a semester as Erasmus student at Wageningen University (Wageningen, the Netherlands) to follow courses in Hydrology. After graduation, I decided to bring my education further and I started a Ph.D. at the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Padova. My Ph.D. thesis focused on hydrologic transport and travel time distributions at the catchment scale. My contribution to the subject included both new theoretical formulations and extensive numerical applications to real catchments. During my Ph.D., I also spent 7 months as visiting research fellow at Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, USA). Since I arrived at EPFL as post-doc in 2015, I started being involved in field and experimental activities, which allowed me to learn about practical experimental problems. In 2017 I had the opportunity to by hired by the ECHO laboratory as a permanent scientist, conducting research in the field of catchment hydrology.

Current work

I am currently conducting my research on the following subjects:

-Understanding and modeling the transport of solutes in hydrologic systems, with special regard to anthropized landscapes;
-Estimating water age and its variations in time for various catchments worldwide;
-Monitoring solute concentration in rivers during storms and developing new low-cost methodologies to measure at high-frequency;
-Numerical development of models for solute transport in rivers;
-Experiments on hydrologic and solute mass balance in large lysimeters;