current position

05/2026–present Tenure-Track Researcher / Assistant Professor, CEAR-01/A Hydraulics, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

03/2024–present Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow, GEONEAT project, Complex Fluids in Fractured Geological Media for Enhanced Heat Transfer (€265k), in collaboration with Stanford University, the University of Bologna, and the University of Rennes.

former positions

03/2023–02/2024 Fixed-Term Researcher, non-tenure track, 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, 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, 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

09/2025-02/2026: Postdoctoral Researcher (MSCA Fellow in secondment), TERA “Fluids, Transport and Reactivity” group (Yves Méheust), Géosciences Rennes, CNRS – Université de Rennes, Rennes, France.

03/2024-08/2025: Visiting Scholar (MSCA Fellow in outgoing phase), “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, Rennes, France.

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

memberships in professional societies

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

European Geosciences Union (EGU)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII)

editorial and refereein 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), Current Research in Food Science (Elsevier), International Journal of Multiphase Flow (Elsevier)

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 [Honorable Mention].

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

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

invited talks

05/2026 “Mechanisms, Upscaling, and Prediction of Anomalous Transport in Fractured Geothermal Systems”, TU Wien, AT.

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, FR.

education

07/2022: Partecipation in 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 in Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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

07/2021: Partecipation in 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.