Current Position
Associate Professor (SSD: GEO/08) University of Pisa – Department of Earth Sciences, Pisa (Italy)
Previous Working Experiences
2019 – 2022: Assistant Professor (RTDb: SSD: GEO/08) University of Pisa – Department of Earth Sciences, Pisa (Italy)
2017 – 2019: Research Fellow University of Pavia – Department of Earth and Environment Science, Pavia (Italy).
Development of methodologies for integrated and participative water resources management within the project: “Squaring the cycle: the INTEgration of GROundwater processes in Nutrient budgets for a basin oriented remediation strategy (INTEGRON)”.
2013 – 2017: Marie Curie Research Fellow – International Outgoing Fellowship
International National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS) – Laboratory of Radio-Analysis and Environment (Tunisia) (MC-IOF Outgoing phase -2013/10 – 2015/10)& Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Venice, (Italy) (MC-IOF Return phase -2015/10 – 2016/09).
Development of the Bir Al-Nas (Bottom-up integrated Approach for sustainable groundwater management in rural areas) project.
2013 – 2015: Consultant at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics (Italy) and Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado de Santa Cruz (Galapagos, Ecuador)
Consultant for water quality monitoring and assessment, in the technical cooperation project “Development of strategies for the improvement of environmental quality and sustainable development of the Island of Santa Cruz (Galapagos, Ecuador).
2011: Researcher and teaching assistant Venice International University, Center for Thematic Environmental Networks (Italy)
Organization and management of advanced training courses on different topics related to sustainable development for delegations of high level governmental official and civil servants from the PRC. Research and European projects writing. Tutoring in the field of environmental protection of visiting student from the Tsinghua University (Beijing, PRC) and Tongji University (Shanghai, PRC), in the framework of the Sino-Italian Cooperation program for Environmental protection.
2011 – Ph.D in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development – Awarded with the “Doctor Europaeus” label Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – IUAV – School for Advanced Studies in Venice Foundation, Venice (Italy)
Thesis: Groundwater in urban coastal areas: hydrogeochemical based approach for managing the transition areas. The example of the lagoon of Nador (Morocco)
Advisor: Prof. G.M. Zuppi Co-Advisors: Dr. Alice Aureli (UNESCO-IHP), Dr. Andrea Merla (GEF)
Research fields: Environmental Sciences with focus on Water Sciences, Hydrogeology, Hydrogeochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry and Support Science Based Groundwater Management
The research was framed under the UNEP MAP MedParnership Project (200-2015) for the development of the pilot case study in Nador (Morocco).