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

CV (English), CV (Italian), CV (Chinese), CV (Spanish), CV (Russian)

Full Professor at the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF), University of Padova. Since 2020, he has been listed among the world's top 2% most-cited scientists. In the current Elsevier/Stanford dataset, he ranks within the top 0.16% in Geological & Geomatics Engineering when self-citations are excluded.

POSITIONS

■ Full Professor – Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF), University of Padova
■ Advisor for South and East Asia – International Relations, University of Padova
■ Member, Governing Council – Galilean School of Higher Education, University of Padova
■ Visiting Professor – TIIAME National Research University, Uzbekistan
■ Adjunct Professor – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania
■ Adjunct Professor – University of Georgia, USA
■ President – Soil and Water Conservation Division, Italian Society of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA)
■ Research Group Leader – Earth Surface Processes & Society, an international group of 10 early-career researchers

Previous international academic appointments include Dalian University of Technology and China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; and EPFL, Switzerland.

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

■ Executive Editor – Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
■ Associate Editor – International Soil and Water Conservation Research
■ Editorial Board Member – Cell Reports Sustainability; The Innovation; The Innovation Geoscience; Geography and Sustainability; iScience; Earth Surface Processes and Landforms; Journal of Mountain Science; Pirineos (CSIC); Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias

SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS

■ EUROSION – Horizon Europe | €12.0 million consortium – Partner; PI for the Italian soil-erosion monitoring node
■ Uliveto Smart – Veneto Region / EU rural development | €413,600 – Scientific Coordinator; PI of WP1, WP2 and WP3
■ A.Q.U.A. – Veneto Region / EU rural development | €487,700 – PI of WP3
■ PHITO – Horizon Europe | €5.025 million consortium – PI of WP3
■ Seawater intrusion monitoring in Lazio Region – Consorzio di Bonifica Litorale Nord  | €78,000 – PI
■ Agritech – National Research Centre for Agricultural Technologies | €320 million programme – Co-PI of WP4.2
■ SOiLUTION SYSTEM | €450,000 – Scientific Coordinator; PI of WP1
■ TerrACE – ERC Advanced Grant | €2.6 million – PI of WP1

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND SCIENTIFIC SERVICE

He has extensive experience in international research cooperation and scientific evaluation. In 2026, he promoted and facilitated the institutional process leading to a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Padova and national science and innovation bodies of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

He has evaluated more than 250 competitive research proposals, including proposals for the European Commission / Horizon Europe and major funding agencies in Poland, Portugal, Belgium and the United Kingdom.

He has delivered invited lectures and talks at international universities, academies and scientific meetings, including Princeton University, Nanyang Technological University, the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation in China, the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, InnoWeek in Tashkent and Tashkent Water Week.

  Publications

Google Scholar, SCOPUS

Author of 230 Scopus-indexed articles, with publications in international peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Nature Food, Reviews of Geophysics, Science Advances, Science Bulletin, Environmental Research Letters, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and iScience. His current Google Scholar metrics include an h-index of 70 and more than 15,000 citations. His research has also been cited or mentioned in 130+ policy documents tracked by Overton and and has received 7 Wikipedia mentions.

He has delivered more than 40 invited talks and lectures at international scientific meetings, universities and research institutions, including the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, the American Society of Agronomy / Crop Science Society of America / Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, the International Geographical Congress, Princeton University, Nanyang Technological University, Tashkent Water Week and InnoWeek in Uzbekistan. He has also given more than 200 presentations at international and national conferences.

  Research Areas

Water resources management in agriculture, soil and water conservation, digital terrain analysis, hydro-geomorphology, remote sensing and GIS. Current research focuses on agricultural landscapes under climate change, drought and water scarcity, soil salinization and saltwater intrusion, steep-slope and terraced agriculture, water harvesting, and nature-based solutions for sustainable soil and water management.

  Thesis

Humans–Earth interactions; Water resources management in agriculture; Soil and water conservation; Agricultural water management; Drought and water scarcity in agriculture; Soil salinization and saltwater intrusion; Climate-change impacts on agricultural landscapes; Steep-slope and terraced agriculture; Water harvesting and nature-based solutions; Land degradation, soil erosion and landslide processes; Digital terrain analysis and high-resolution topography; Remote sensing and GIS applications in agriculture and environmental monitoring; LiDAR applications; Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry and drone-based monitoring.

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