CV (english), CV (italian)

POSITIONS
■ Full Professor – Dept. of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (University of Padova)
■ Member Board of Directors: Galilean School of Higher Education (University of Padova)
■ Visiting Professor – Dalian University of Technology (PR China)
■ Adjunct Professor – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania)
■ Adjunct Professor – University of Georgia (USA)

LEADERSHIP
■ Vice President – Soil and Water Conservation division, Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA)
■ Principal Investigator – Earth Surface Processes & Society Research Group (https://www.linkedin.com/in/earthsurfs/)

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
■ Scientific Coordinator – joint academic cooperation between Beijing Forestry Univ. and Dept. TESAF Univ. of Padova
■ Coordinator – Commission for the 'Third Mission' & Communication of the Dept. TESAF at Univ. of Padova
■ Member – Teacher-Student Joint Commission for the School of Agriculture and Veterinary, Univ. of Padova
■ Promoter – Joint-PhD program between China University of Geosciences and Univ. of Padova
■ Scientific Coordinator – MoU between China University of Geosciences and University of Padova
■ Scientific Coordinator – MoU between Massey University (NZ), University of Lincoln (UK), Univ. of Padova
■ Board Member – PhD Program Land, Environment, Resources and Health, Univ. of Padova

EDITORIAL POSITIONS
■ Executive Editor – Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Copernicus)
■ Associate Editor – International Soil and Water Conservation Research (Elsevier), Land Degradation & Development (Wiley), Remote Sensing (MDPI)
■ Editorial Board Member – iScience (Cell Press), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (Wiley), Anthropocene (Elsevier), Geography and Sustainability (Elsevier), Journal of Mountain Science (Springer), Heliyon (Cell Press)

RESEARCH PROJETS
■ Agritech - National Research Centre for Agricultural Technologies 320,000,000 € (co-PI of WP4.2, Smart climate agriculture and forestry: from sustainable products to the bioeconomy)
■ Sustainable management of water and soil in agriculture (Land Reclamation Authority of LEB) 25,000€ (PI)
■ SOiLUTION SYSTEM (EU rural develop. program – Veneto Region) 450,000€ (Scientific Coordinator, co-PI)
■ FITOCHE (EU rural development grant – Veneto Region) 300,000€ (PI of WP4)
■ TerrACE (EU H2020 ERC-AdG) 2,600,000€ (PI of WP1)
■ ViTe (Univ. of Padova) 60,000€ (PI)
■ HighLandDEM (ENVIMED French cooperation initiative) 18,000€ (PI of WP2)
■ CPDR147412/14 – Artificial drainage networks evolution in Veneto floodplain (Univ. of Padova) 46,666€ (PI)
■ NIP (POR FESR) 608,024€ (team member)
■ CPDR122903/12 – Use of high resolution topography for the automatic definition of geometric elements of the hydrographic network (Univ. of Padova) 22,946€ (PI)

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Publication metrics: Google Scholar (h-index 51, total citations 8442), SCOPUS (h-index 43, total citations 6147; average 9.1 papers/yr and 343 citations/yr, in the last 5 years 2018-2022 16 papers/yr and 796 citations/yr).

Ranked in the list of 100,000 top world’s most cited scientists: rank no. 87715 for career in all disciplines (top 0.56% in the category geological & geomatics engineering); rank no. 20872 in all disciplines for single year 2021 (top 0.3% in the category geological & geomatics engineering excluding self-citations), source Scopus by Elsevier BV & Stanford University.

More than 150 articles (4 invited review) published in international peer journals and books, 3 edited books, 41 invited talks at international meetings (EGU, IGC, AAG, ISPRS, RGS-IBG, AOGS, Soil Science Society of China) and academies (e.g., Princeton University, EPFL, Beijing Normal University, Dalian University of Technology, AgroParisTech, Massey University, Tongji University, …), and 195 presentations at international and national conferences.

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Expert in digital terrain analysis, earth surface processes analysis, natural hazards, geomorphology, hydrogeomorphology, remote sensing, GIS; new research directions focus on agricultural landscapes under climate change and human impact scenarios.

Humans-Earth interactions; Soil and Water Resources Management; Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural impact on water resources; Agricultural Water Management; Effects of urbanization and technological innovation in agriculture; Earth-Surface Processes analysis through high-resolution topography; Land Degradation; Landslide and erosion processes analysis; Digital Terrain Analysis; Lidar applications; Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry, drones.