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 Atmospheric Sciences 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 have served as Elected Member of the Council of InterPore (International Society for Porous Media) and Chair of the Subsurface Hydrology and Groundwater Sub-division, Hydrological Sciences division of EGU. I currently serve as Dean of Class IV (Natural Sciences) of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Chair of the Advisory Assembly of ENHANCE (European Universities of Technology Alliance) and Member of the Management Board (Secretary General) of TIME (Top International Managers in Engineering) international network. I am Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering at POLIMI and Rector’s Delegate for International Networks at POLIMI.