Research
activities
Research interests:
as an environmental engineering with a strong background in
hydrology and hydraulics Alessio Domeneghetti's research activities
mainly focus on the field of flood hazard and flood risk
assessment, mitigation and mapping. In this field he developed and
applied hydrological and hydraulic models of different structure
and complexity for the identification and evaluation of flood
mitigation measures, taking into account the mutual relationship
between flood risk and society. These studies started during the
PhD with the aim to investigate the role of different sources of
uncertainties on flood hazard analysis, even considering the risk
of dike breaches that has been estimated by means of fragility
curves (this activity was carried out also in collaboration with
the German Research Centre for Geosciences). Recently, Alessio
Domeneghetti dedicated his attention to the application of remote
sensing techniques and remotely-sensed data for hydrological and
hydraulic applications, showing benefits, limits and uncertainties
related to the use of water elevation measurements sensed from
different satellites (e.g. ERS and ENVISAT). Furthermore, being
involved in consulting activities commissioned by the Italian
Ministry of Infrastructure he is investigating the possible effects
of climate changes on flood frequency analysis in different
topographic and climate contexts.
