People WATERSCAPES Research Group Members

WATERSCAPES Research Group Members

 

• Prof. Enrica Caporali, PhD             

• • Full Professor of Hydraulic and Maritime Structures and Hydrology - CEAR 01/B at UNIFI, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICEA). Awarded with a Post‑Doc fellowship at UNIFI and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Member of the Academic Senate of UNIFI. Vice-President of the School of Engineering. Coordinator of the international and interdisciplinary master’s degree in Geoengineering, developed in the framework of the UNE SCO Chair on “Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological Hazards”, of which she is Program Coordinator for Education and Chair Associate. Scientific Coordinator of the Spatial Data Laboratory of DICEA. Her research fields are water resources management and flood risk mitigation, also with reference to cultural heritage protection, water-energy-food nexus and water related ecosystem services, environment monitoring and protection, hydrological extreme events, hydro-sedimentological modeling at river basin scale.
• Eng. Tommaso Pacetti, PhD

• • Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florence - Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (DICEA). His research is mainly focused on water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus and ecosystem services assessment
• Eng. Marco Lompi, PhD

• • Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florence - Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (DICEA). His research is focused on the impact of climate change on extreme weather and flood risk.
• Eng. Gabriele Bertoli

• • PhD student in the International Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering program, at the University of Florence - Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (DICEA). His research is focused on natural hazards, ecosystem services, and multi-risk assessment, especially flood risk, applying innovative techniques and artificial intelligence. Waterscapes webmaster. 

• Eng. Jerome El Jeitany

• • PhD student in the International Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering program, at the University of Florence - Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (DICEA). His research is focused on water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus, spatial-temporal data modelling, and watershed management. 
• Dott. Noemi Mannucci

• • PhD student in the National Doctoral Program in Earth Observation at the University of Florence. Her research focuses on ecosystem services and the use of remote sensing and artificial intelligence for watercourses management.
• Dott. Bianca Maria Rizzo

 

• Visiting students
  • Eng. Alessandro Giuliano

• • • Degree in Civil and Territorial Engineering, Research Scholarship at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) of the University of Florence (UNIFI). Currently working on “Hydrological-hydraulic modelling, study of river dynamics and solid transport of the Orcia River” (since September 2023) supported by a partnership between DICEA and Consorzio di Bonifica 6 Toscana Sud.
• Other collaborations
  • • Dr. Tiziana Pileggi, PhD          

• • • Technical manager of the GeoSpatial Data Laboratory at the University of Florence - Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (DICEA). PhD in Geomatics and Geographic Information Systems. Her scientific interests concern the processing of geospatial data to define reference frameworks aimed at monitoring and controlling the interaction of the environmental system with human systems, assessing impacts, and designing actions to mitigate them. She has also worked on projects involving geohistorical spatial analysis and historical GIS.