Assistant Professor in tenure-track for the Department of Engineering at the University of Palermo (Italy) since 2018.

Master Degree , summa cum laude, in Civil Engineering and Doctoral Degree  in Hydraulic Engineering at University of Palermo. He was engaged in academic research activities, under different positions (postgraduate scholarships, postdoctoral fellowships, professional contracts), at the University of Palermo, University of Trapani and CINFAI (National Consortium of Universities for the physics of atmospheres and of hydrospheres). Research fellowship (2009) funded by the NASA project WaterSCAPES at Princeton University (NJ-USA). He was appointed technical consultant in the field of hydrology for Italian Tribunals and Courts of Justice. He earned the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN MIUR) for the role of Associate Professor in 2017. He is Principal Investigator and member of research units for various funded national and international research projects. He is a member of the Doctoral Board D084 - Chemical, Environmental, Biomedical, Hydraulic And Materials Engineering for which he is responsible for the web page. He is member of the Interclass Board (CICS) in Environmental and Territorial Engineering, for which he is: member of the QA (Quality Assurance) commission for the LM35 Master's Degree; delegate for Internationalisation, double degree programs and Erasmus; member of the Orientation Commission for CICS.

He is Lecturer in courses since 2018, i.e. Hydrology and Hydroinformatics. Lecturer in courses for PhD Programs since 2021 (i.e. Neural Network for Machine Learning) and in seminar modules since 2010 (i.e. Ecohydrology). He carries out teaching aid and support activities for various courses of the SSD ICAR/02. He was assistant supervisor for over several master degree's theses. He is author of numerous scientific publications, with over 35 peer-reviewed scientific ISI articles published in some of the major international journals in water science scientific sector. He is member of organizing and scientific committees, and participates as a speaker, reviewer of proceedings, invited speaker and chairman, in various scientific national and international conferences. He is member of the editorial board of different scientific international journals.

He conducts high impact research in the field of hydrology, eco-hydrology and hydroinformatics, including specific topics such as:

• hydrological/ecohydrological modeling in semi-arid regions and wetlands
• hydrological control on biodiversity and vegetation water stress
• analytical reconstruction of flow duration curves
• rainfall-runoff models and water resources assessment
• environment monitoring and early warning systems for rainfall triggered landslides;
• statistical hydrology: trend analysis and analysis of hydrological extremes;
• hydrological changes induced by climate and land use changes;
• indicators for hydrological regime alterations
• NBS, green roofs and climate adaptive solutions

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