Alessandro Lenci

Alessandro Lenci is a Tenure-Track Researcher (Assistant Professor) in Hydraulics (CEAR-01/A) at DICAM, University of Bologna, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow. His research addresses flow and transport in porous and fractured media, with applications to hydrogeology, geothermal systems, complex fluids, and upscaling.

His work combines theoretical modelling, numerical simulations, and stochastic approaches to study how structural heterogeneity, fracture roughness, fracture-matrix exchange, and nonlinear rheology affect hydraulic behaviour, heat transfer, and dispersion. Within the MSCA Global Fellowship project GEONEAT, he applies these methods to predictive modelling of engineered and non-Newtonian fluids in fractured geothermal systems. He also serves as a reviewer for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and for international journals.