Biography

I have a background in Environmental Engineering started with my Bachelor and Master studies from the University of Padova, Italy. 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. 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;
• Use of stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in the water molecule to trace ecohydrological processes;
• Experiments on hydrologic and solute mass balance in large lysimeters;