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Paolo Fiorucci

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Ph.D. in Environmental Monitoring at the University of Basilicata.

paolo.fiorucci@cimafoundation.org

Expert on forest fire risk assessment and management by means of statistical analysis and dynamic model development. Author of the design, development and implementation of the wildfire risk assessment systems fully operational at the Italian Civil Protection and the Regione Liguria and Lombardia Civil Protection headquarters.
Author and co-author of more than 30 publications on international/national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

Simone Gabellani

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Ph.D. in Fluodynamics and Processes of Environmental engineering at the University of Genoa.

simone.gabellani@cimafoundation.org

Expert on modeling of hydrological physical processes in small and medium catchments, snow hydrology and developing of distributed hydrological models integrated in assimilation frameworks that use satellite data and remotely sensed information.
Author and co-author of more then 30 publications on international/national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

Francesco Gaetani

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Ph.D. in Automatics at the Politecnico di Torino.

francesco.gaetani@cimafoundation.org

Expert on wildland fire risk assessment and mitigation, including fire ecology, fire-plan strategies, resource planning and optimization. Author of the design, development and implementation of the wildfire risk assessment systems fully operational at the Italian Civil Protection and the Regione Liguria and Lombardia Civil Protection headquarters.
Author and co-author of more then 40 publications on international/ national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

Marco Massabò

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Ph.D. in Fluodynamics and Processes of Environmental Engineering at the University of Genoa.

marco.massabo@cimafoundation.org

Expert on environmental and human health risk assessment, fate and transport modelling of reactive contaminants in porous media, soil and groundwater remediation, applications of stochastic models to the transport of pollutant in the subsurface environment. Author and co-author of more than 30 publications on international/national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

Marina Morando

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Environmental Engineer

marina.morando@cimafoundation.org

Head of the CIMA Foundation Operational Room for the forecast and monitoring of flood and forest fire. Expert on development and management of systems for early warning and on hydro-meteorology with particular emphasis in flood forecasting. More...

 

Antonio Parodi

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Ph.D. in Fluidynamics and Modelling of Environmental systems at the University of Padova.

antonio.parodi@cimafoundation.org

Expert in atmospheric modelling and statistical analysis of extreme events, in the development of simplified models of dry and moist convection and the study of the main sources of uncertainty in the high resolution numerical modelling of deep moist convective processes.
Awarded with a CNR-MIT grant in 2002 in the framework of the bilateral USA-Italy investigations on climate change and hydrogeological disasters.
Author and co-author of more than 50 publications on international/national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

Nicola Rebora

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Ph.D. in Environmental Monitoring at the University of Basilicata.

nicola.rebora@cimafoundation.org

Expert in the fields of stochastic modelling of precipitation, rainfall downscaling, characterization of dynamic and stochastic properties of precipitation, radar meteorology and flash flood forecasting procedures.
Awarded with the MED-STORM prize for young researcher - European Geosciences Union.
Author and co-author of more than 50 publications on international/national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

Lauro Rossi

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Master Degree in Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy (2002).

lauro.rossi@cimafoundation.org

Expert on real-time decision support systems links the IT Unit with the Environmental Engineer Sector. Author and co-author of several national/international conference proceedings on decision support system and sediment transport activities. More...

Roberto Rudari

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Ph.D. in Fluidynamics and Modelling of Environmental systems at the University of Padova.

roberto.rudari@cimafoundation.org

Expert on basin geomorphology, climate and weather predictability, continuous and distributed hydrologic modelling assisted by satellite and remotely sensed information and the characterization of joint probability distributions of land effects and vulnerability estimation to flood events. Programmer of the MIKE – DriFt rainfall-runoff model commercialized by DHI.
Guest editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS).
Author and co-author of more than 80 publications on international/national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

Francesco Silvestro

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Environmental Engineering.

francesco.silvestro@cimafoundation.org

Expert on methodologies for human and environment preservation from natural hazard effects, in particular flood events, by hydrological forecast, observation networks, and meteorological radar systems.
Author and co-author of more than 20 publications on international/national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

Eva Trasforini

Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation.
Ph.D. on Environmental Monitoring at the University of Basilicata.

eva.trasforini@cimafoundation.org

Expert in the application of automatic control and operational research theories to environmental issues, with special attention to emergency management related to natural hazards, analyzing both the resources assignment in pre-operational and operational phase problem, and the analysis of the systemic vulnerability.
Author and co-author of more than 30 publications on international/national refereed journals and conference proceedings. More...

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