Attilio Castellarin

CURRENT POSITION AND EDUCATION

Enrolled as full professor of DICAM - University of Bologna as of November 6, 2017, and before as an associate professor (since Sept. 15, 2014) and tenured assistant professor (since Oct. 1, 2006) of the same Department.

From 2002 to 2006, assistant professor at the University of Bologna (School of Civil Engineering). Post-Doctoral fellowship, 2001-2002. University of Bologna (Italy). Ph.D in Water Engineering, 2001. Polytechnic of Milan (Italy).  Undergrad. and Masters Degree with honors in Civil Engineering with a major in Environ. Engineering, 1996.Univ. of Bologna (Italy). Attilio Castellarin obtained the National Academic Qualification for Associate Professorship and Full Professorship on February 2, 2013

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

Research interests include frequency analysis of hydrological extreme events (rainstorms, floods and droughts); surface water resources assessment and management; anthropogenic effects on hydrological processes and Water-Society interactions; hydrological predictions in ungauged basins (PUB problem); regionalisation of hydrological information; catchment classification; hydrological GIS and open-software applications.

Author and co-author of more than 100 original peer-reviewed scientific papers (Orcid, Scopus, Google Scholar). These studies have been presented orally at international and national conferences.

Editor in Chief of Hydrological Sciences Journal (IAHS) as of June 2015; Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology (winner of the “Associate Editor Award 2013”), Elsevier, from 2008 to 2014 and of  Water Resources Research, AGU, from 2013 to 2019. Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Catchment classification and PUB" on HESS, EGU.

Principal or Local coordinator in several international and national research projects (e.g. LIFE CLIMAX PO (CLIMate Adaptation for the PO river basin district) funded by EU, SaferPLACES "Improved assessment of pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood hazards and risks in European cities as a mean to build safer and resilient communities" funded by EIT-EU through Climate-KIC;  'A Large-Scale Systems Approach to Flood Risk Assessment and Management' SYSTEM-RISK, belonging to Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions for Innovative Training Networks - ITNs; EU funded COST Action ES0901 European Procedures for flood frequency estimation "FloodFreq").

Organizer and convener of numerous sessions focusing on the prediction and prevention of hydrological extremes at various editions of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly an Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Member of the scientific committee of EGU Leonardo Conference Series on the Hydrological Cycle “Floods in 3D: Processes, Patterns, Predictions” (Bratislava, Slovakia, 23-25 November 2011), Florisa Melone Memorial Conference (Assisi, Italy, 10-11 October 2013), 6th (Bologna July, 2014) and 7th (Bochum, Germany, July 2016) IAHS International Symposia of IAHS-ICWRS. Coordinator of the technical and scientific committee of 35th national congress in water engineering (IDRA16, Bologna, September 2016).

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Director of First Cycle Degree in Environmental Engineering since Nov. 1, 2024.

Teaches subjects associated with hydrology, water resources management, flood-risk assessment and management to graduate and undergraduate students of the School of Engineering and School of Geology at the University of Bologna.  Professor of the International Master in "Land and Water Conservation"  (Univ. Bologna) and Short Course on "Small hydropower development - from planning to design" and “Where there is little data: How to estimate design variables in poorly gauged basins” (UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands) and "Summer School - Runoff Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)" (TUW, Vienna, Austria).  Supervisor and co-supervisor of more than 100 graduation and master's theses. Advisor and co-advisor of several Ph.D. students and member of the academic board of Ph.D. school in civil, chemical, environmental and materials engineering (PhD@DICAM).

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES COOPERATION

2007: Invited professor at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam GFZ Potsdam (group coordinator Prof. Bruno Merz).
2003: Visiting scholar at Tufts University (Boston, USA), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, collaborating with Dr. Richard, M. Vogel on a research grant from the University of Bologna.
1999: Visiting student at the University of Waterloo (Canada), under the supervision of Prof. Donald, H. Burn as a part of the Ph.D. program.
Co-managed, planned and taught in a series of master classes for Latin American engineers titled: “Design of river engineering works and structural/non-structural measures for the prevention of hydro-geological disasters” in various editions from 2004 to 2008 (sponsored by IILA - Italo-Latin American Institute, through the Italian Department of Foreign Affairs; held at University of Bologna).
IILA Consultant in the field of hydraulic engineering for two international cooperation projects funded by the Italian Department of Foreign Affairs in  Republica Dominicana, Haití, Ecuador and Perú.

References may be obtained from:

Dr. Prof. Günter Blöschl, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria, bloeschl@hydro.tuwien.ac.at

Dr. Prof. Bruno Merz, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Germany, bmerz@gfz-potsdam.de