ACADEMIC POSITION

Since AY 20/21: Associate Professor

Since AY 11/12: Aggregate Professor

Since AY 10/11: Assistant Professor

2007 - 2009: Professor on contract

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

European PhD (Doctor Europaeus), from the Doctoral School in Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari, thesis title “Lagrangian acceleration measurements via PTVA (Particle Tracking Velocimetry and Accelerometry) on a turbulent-like flow”, supervised by G. Querzoli (University of Cagliari) and J.C. Vassilicos (Imperial College London), February 2007.

Master’s degree in Civil Engineering – Hydraulics at the University of Cagliari, thesis title “Experimental investigation on the discharge into the sea of brine from a desalination plant”; mark 110/110, February 2003.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

November 15th, 2016: invited opening keynote lecturer, with the lecture “Image Analysis techniques for the study of turbulent flows”, at the international conference EFM (10th Experimental Fluid Mechanics) 2016, Marianske Lazne (Czech Rep.), 15-18 November 2016.

November 7th, 2006: invited lecturer, with the lecture “Design of diffusers for heavy fluid discharge”, at the international conference MWWD 2006 (4th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Marine Environment), Antalya (Turkey), 6-10 November 2006.

November 2004: EC award “Marie Curie Host Fellowship”, fellow reference number HPMT-CT-2001-00369-11.

October 2005: EC award “Marie Curie Host Fellowship” fellow reference number HPMT-CT-2001-00369-16.

September 25th, 2004: invited lecturer, with the lecture “Dense discharges”, MWWD 2004 (3rd International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Marine Environment), Catania (Italy), 25 September – 2 October 2004.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the editorial committee of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (eISSN: 1660-4601; ISSN: 1661-7827; indexed on Scopus and Web of Science; MDPI), section Environmental Science and Engineering.

Member of the editorial committee of Water (ISSN 2073-4441; indexed on Scopus and Web of Science; MDPI), section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics.

Guest Editor of the Special Issue Turbulent Flow Simulations of Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073; indexed on Scopus and Web of Science; MDPI).

REVIEWER ACTIVITIES

Reviewer for many international journals of Springer (e.g., Sustainable Cities and Society, Environ. Fluid Mechanics, etc), Elsevier (e.g., Building and Environment, Atmospheric Environment, J. Urban Management, Science of the Total Environment, J. Cleaner Production, Case Studies in Thermal Eng., etc), AIP (Physics of Fluids), MDPI (e.g. Int. J. Environ. Research and Public Health, Applied Sciences, etc), etc.

Reviewer for the EU (ERC and MERIT) and for the MUR (Italian Ministry Of University and Research, SIR and Reprise) 

MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

Since 2015: member of the Scientific Committee of the international conference EFM - Experimental Fluid Mechanics. (http://efm.kez.tul.cz/)

11-12/06/ 2015:  member of the local Organizing Committee of the conference "Water and fluid Frontiers", Cagliari.

27/06/2014: Organizer of the Conference: Home automation, innovation and energy saving, Cagliari.

2010-2011: member of the Organizing Committee of the international conference CVFM2011 (CardioVascular Fluid Mechanics: from theoretical aspects to diagnostic and therapeutic support; Euromech Colloquium 529 - Ercoftac Workshop Sig 37) 27-29 June 2011, Cagliari (Italy)

OTHER INFORMATION

Since 2016: Coordinator for the International Mobility activities of Civil Engineering at the University of Cagliari.

2011-2014: member of the Board of professors of the PhD course in Territorial Engineering for the University of Cagliari

2013-2017 and 2020-present: member of the Board of professors of the PhD course in Civil Engineering and Architecture f the University of Cagliari. 

 

Updated on 29/01/2024