CURRENT POSITION

03/2024-present Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow, project  GEONEAT “Complex Fluids in Fractured Geological Media for Enhanced Heat Transfer” (265k €) funded by the European commission and conducted in collaboration with the Stanford University, the University of Bologna and the University of Rennes.

The research activity is carried out: from 03/2024 to 08/2025 at the “Data-Driven Modeling and Simulations group” of Stanford University, from 09/2025 to 03/2026 at the TERA group “Fluids, transport and reactivity” of Rennes University and subsequently at DICAM Hydraulics of the University of Bologna.

FORMER POSITIONS

03/2023-02/2024 Assistant Professor, 08/A1 ICAR/01, PNRR PE3 Return “Multi-risk science for resilient communities under a changing climate“, Project: “Upscaling e modellazione inversa di flusso e trasporto in mezzi geologici fratturati“, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

11/2022-02/2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, HORIZON-CL6-2021-ZEROPOLLUTION-01-03 StopUp “Protecting the aquatic environment from urban runoff pollution”, Project: “Flusso e trasporto nelle reti di fognatura per la tutela delle acque“, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

11/2021-10/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Project: “Flusso e trasporto in mezzi naturali e artificiali per applicazioni industriali“, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

07/2017-07/2018 Research Fellow, POR-FESR 2014-2020 GST4Water “Green-Smart Technology for the sustainable use of Water in buildings and urban areas“, Project: “Valutazione della sostenibilità economico-ambientale dei sistemi idrici urbani“, Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Research on Buildings and Constructions, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

TEACHING ACTIVITY

AY 2022/2023 Adjunct Professor, Course on “Groundwater and Contamination Processes“, 3 ECTF – 34 ore, International MSc in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

AY 2022/2023 Adjunct Professor, Course on “Hydraulics“, 2 ECTF – 30 ore, MSc in Building Engineering-Architecture, Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

09/2019-02/2023 Teaching Assistant (Hydraulics, Groundwater and Contamination Processes, Advanced Hydrosystem Engineering), Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

09/2019-02/2023 Teaching Assistant (Fluid Mechanics), Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

09/2025-Present: Visiting Scholar, TERA “Fluids, Transport and Reactivity” group (Yves Méheust), Géosciences Rennes, CNRS Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France.

03/2024-08/2025: Visiting Scholar, “Data-Driven Modeling and Simulations” (Daniel M. Tartakovsky), Energy Science and Engineering, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US.

09/2021-10/2021: Visiting Scholar, DIMENV “Dynamics, Imaging and Modeling of Environmental Systems” group (Yves Méheust), CNRS University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France.

03/2020-08/2020: Visiting Student, DIMENV “Dynamics, Imaging and Modeling of Environmental Systems” group (Yves Méheust), Geosciences Rennes, CNRS University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

European Geosciences Union (EGU)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII)

REFEREEING ACTIVITY

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Cambridge Core), Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Elsevier), Advances in Water Resources (Elsevier), Water Resources Research (Wiley), Computational Geosciences (Springer), Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (Springer Nature), Transport in Porous Media (Springer), Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (Elsevier), Engineering Geology (Elsevier), Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), Geophysical Research Letters (Wiley)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

02/2023 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, type Global of three years, HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF GEONEAT “Complex Fluids in Fractured Geological Media for Enhanced Heat Transfer“, the project includes 18 months at Stanford University (outgoing phase) and 6 months at University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France (secondment) [266k€].

10/2022 MSCA RISE Fellowship, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 GHAIA “Geometric and Harmonic Analysis with Interdisciplinary Applications“, the project includes 2 months at Stanford University, Stanford, US [4k€].

06/2022 ALMArie Curie SUpER grant, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy [10k€].

08/2021 Editor’s Choice – Feature Article (doi:10.1063/5.0062422), journal “Physics of Fluids” published by AIP.

01/2021 Travel Award 2021, journal “Resources” published by MDPI [Honourable Mention].

12/2020 Best Presentation Award, XXIII International Conferance on “Computational Methods in Water Resoruces” (CMWR), Stanford University, Stanford, US.

10/2019 Marco Polo grant, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy [3450€].

INVITED TALKS

05/2022 “Stochastic Analysis of the flow in Rough-Walled Fractures“, Stanford University, US.

05/2022 “Flow Localization in Heterogneous Fractures“, University of Southern California, US.

10/2021 “Flow of Complex Fluids in Geological Fractures“, University of Rennes 1,France.

FORMATION AND EDUCATION

07/2022: Partecipation at the “26th CISM-IUTAM International Summer School on convection and Deformation in Porous Media: Geophysical and Biological Flows”, 11-15/07/2022, Udine, Italy.

09/2019-10/2022: PhD Student, Phd in Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

07/2021: Partecipation at the “5th Summer School on Flow and Transport in Porous and Fractured Media”, 20-31/07/2021, Cargèse, France.

07/2021: Partecipation at the Hylab Workshop  on “Introduction to Geostatistics”, 09-24/04/2018, University og Parma, Parma, Italy.

10/2016: MSC in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

07/2014: BSc in Civil Engineering, Politecnico di Milan, Milano, Italy.

EDITORIAL AND REFEREEING ACTIVITY

Referee: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Cambridge Core), Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Elsevier), Advances in Water Resources (Elsevier), Water Resources Research (Wiley), Computational Geosciences (Springer), Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (Springer Nature), Transport in Porous Media (Springer), Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (Elsevier), Engineering Geology (Elsevier), Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), Geophysical Research Letters (Wiley), International Journal of Mining Science and Technology (Elsevier).