Curriculum vitae et studiorum

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Education:

• 1996, Ph.D. in "Methods and Techniques of Environmental Monitoring", at Hydraulic Department of Engineering Faculty of the University of Florence, VII cycle, with a dissertation entitled "Lagrangian Study of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer".
• 1991, Master Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, “La Sapienza” University of Rome

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Academic positions:

• Since year 2006, full professor in Hydraulics at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Cagliari.
• Since academic year 1998-1999, associate professor of Hydraulics at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Cagliari.
• Since academic year 1996-1997, researcher of Hydraulics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
• Ph.D. in "Methods and Techniques for Environmental Monitoring", at Hydraulic Department of Engineering Faculty of the University of Florence, VII cycle, with a dissertation entitled "Lagrangian Study of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer".

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Appointments:

2012-2016 Chairman of the PhD School in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Cagliari.

2010-2015 Chairman of the Degree Programme in Civil Engineering at the University of Cagliari.

2007-2013 Chairman of the PhD Programme in Land Engineering at the University of Cagliari.

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Committees:

• 2019 – present: member of the editorial board of the editorial series: "Monografie di Idrodinamica", Società Editrice Esculapio, Bologna, Italy ISSN: 2612-1808
• 2016 – present: member of the Scientific Board of AIVELA (Associazione Italiana Velocimetria Laser, Italian Association of Laser Velocimetry)
• 2015 – present: member of the Scientific Board of Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica (Italian Hydraulics Association)
• 2012 – present: member of the Advisory Board of the International Symposia on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics.
• 2007 – present: member of the Scientific Committee of the International Symposia on Particle Image Velocimetry
• 2011 – chairman of the Euromech Colloquium 529 - Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics - June 2011 - Cagliari – Italy

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Peer reviews:

Among the others: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Atmospheric Environment, Experiments in Fluids, Water Resources Research, Journal of Biomechanics, Turbulence and Combusion, Acta Meccanica, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Meccanica, Environmental Fluid Mechanics.

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Research Grants:

• From 2019 coordinator of a research Unit within the National Research Project PRIN 2017 n. 2017A889FP titled: “Fluid dynamics of hearts at risk of failure: towards methods for the prediction of disease progression”.
• From 2014 to 2016 principal investigator of a National Research Project PRIN2012 n. 2012HMR7CF titled: “Hemodynamics of the aortic valve/artery functional unit with pathology-related morphological modifications”, involving 5 Reseach Units at different Italian universities
• From 2011 to 2013 coordinator of a Research Unit within the PRIN2009 project n. 2009J7BL32 titled "Experimental and numerical simulation of the cardiac flow";
• From 2007 to 2009, he was coordinator of a Research Unit within the PRIN2006 project n.2006087719_003: "Cardiac fluid dynamics: interaction between flow and tissues, numerical modelling, and applications"
• From 2004 to 2006, he was coordinator of a Research Unit within the FIRB2001 project n. RBAU01Z44F_004, titled "Bio-Fluid Mechanics: diastolic flow in the left ventricle of the human heart and methodologic synergies with the investigation of the dynamics of the vitreous body"
• From 1999 to 2001, he was the coordinator of a local research unit within a project PRIN1999 n. 9908264583_006 titled "Coherent structures in environmental fluid dynamics".

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Research interests:

• Experimental study of turbulent flows in different fields, such as biological flows (cardiovascular flows and fluidics in ophtalmology), convective flows, urban boundary layer, and geophysical flows.
• Image analysis techniques for the Lagrangian and Eulerian measurement of fluid velocity and concentration of tracers from large scale to microfluidics.