Paolo Tarolli

Paolo Tarolli

  Full Professor

  AGRI-04/A

  Address: Viale dell'Università, 16 - Legnaro (PD)

  Phone: +39 0498272677

 

E-mail: paolo.tarolli@unipd.it

  Courses

  Curriculum

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Scientist ranked since 2020, for five consecutive years, in the list of world's top 2% most cited scientists: top 0.16% in the category Geological and Geomatics Engineering (source Scopys by Elsevier BV)

POSITIONS
■ Full Professor – Dept. of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (University of Padova)
■ Visiting Professor – Dalian University of Technology (China)
■ Adjunct Professor – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania)
■ Adjunct Professor – University of Georgia (US)
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■ Member Board of Directors: Galilean School of Higher Education (University of Padova)
■ Vice President – Soil and Water Conservation division, Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA)
■ Principal Investigator – Earth Surface Processes & Society Research Group consisted in more than 10 early career scientists from differnet countries in the world (https://www.linkedin.com/in/earthsurfs/)

EDITORIAL POSITIONS (tot. 14)
■ Executive Editor – Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
■ Associate Editor – International Soil and Water Conservation Research, Land Degradation & Development, Remote Sensing
■ Editorial Board Member – Science of the Total Environment, Geography and Sustainability, iScience, The Innovation Geoscience, Cell Reports Sustainability, Evolving Earth, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Journal of Mountain Science, Pirineos (CSIC), Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias

RESEARCH PROJETS
■ Horizon EU - Eurosion 12,000,000 € (PI monitoring soil erosion node in Italy)
■ Uliveto Smart (EU rural develop. program – Veneto Region) 413,600€ (Scientific Coordinator, PI WP1, WP2, WP3)
■ A.Q.U.A. (EU rural develop. program – Veneto Region) 487,700€ (PI of WP3)
■ Seawater intrusion monitoring in Lazio region (Land Reclamation Authority of Litorale Nord) 78,000 € (PI)
■ Horizon EU - PHITO (Platform for Helping small and medium farmers to Incorporate digital Technology for equal Opportunities) 5,025,000 € (PI of WP3)
■ 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, PI WP1)
■ 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)

  Publications

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Author of 200 articles published in international peer journals including prestigious Nature Food, Reviews of Geophysics, Science Bullettin, Environmental Research Letters (publication metrics: h-index 62, total citations 12098; recent papers on the mitigation strategies of soil salinization in agriculture mentioned in two official reports of European Commission in 2024.

Ranked since 2020, for five consecutive years, in the list of world's top 2% most cited scientists: top 0.16% in the category Geological and Geomatics Engineering (source Scopys by Elsevier BV).

He gave more than 40 invited talks at international meetings (EGU, American Society of Agronomy, IEEE, IGU, ISPRS, AOGS) and academies (e.g. Princeton University, Nanyang Technological University, EPFL, Beijing Normal University), more than 200 presentations at international and national conferences.

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  Research Areas

Expert in digital terrain analysis, earth surface processes analysis, hydro-geomorphology, remote sensing, and GIS. New research directions focus on agricultural landscapes under climate change scenarios; sustainable agriculture to mitigate the impact of weather extremes on soils; heroic agriculture and its heritage preservation.

  Thesis

Humans-Earth interactions; Soil and Water Resources Management; Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural impact on water resources; Agricultural Water Management; Drought in Agriculture; 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.

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