Monica Riva
Full professor
I am Full Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, PoliMI (Italy), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources of the University of Arizona (USA). I received my Ph.D. in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering from PoliMI in 2000. I have been visiting Professor in several Universities and Research Centers, including the University of Arizona, the University of Strasbourg and the CNRS (France). My research activity has been focused mainly on subsurface flow and transport dynamics, stochastic groundwater hydrology, probabilistic well protection zones, scaling in hydrology and model parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, multiphase flows and groundwater management. I developed and applied innovative stochastic and upscaling techniques to study flow features of immiscible and miscible fluids. I have developed a theory based on the concept sub-Gaussian mixtures able to capture the (typically non-Gaussian) scaling behavior exhibited by many hydrological-hydrogeological-environmental variables. I introduced novel metrics to perform global sensitivity analysis and ensuing uncertainty quantification across multiple interpretive models with uncertain parameters. I serve as Elected Member of the Council of InterPore (International Society for Porous Media). I am Deputy Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering at PoliMI and Rector Delegate for International Networks at PoliMI.
Expertise in:
- Stochastic groundwater hydrology
- Flow and transport in heterogeneous aquifers
- Probabilistic risk assessment; Uncertainty Quantification
- Climate change and groundwater
- Surface-water and groundwater interaction
- Contaminant fate and transport in the subsurface
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