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My invited presentation at Tsinghua University titled "From hydrological complexity to hydrological predictions, through the exploration of uncertainty, randomness and stochastic theory"

My invited presentation at Tsinghua University (China) titled "From hydrological complexity to hydrological predictions, through the exploration of uncertainty, randomness and stochastic theory" is available at the link below.

The presentation was given on Oct 22, 2025. Thanks to professor Fuqiang Tian and esteemed Colleagues for inviting me. Thanks to Dr. Khosro Morovati and Dr. Yi Nan for the excellent support. It has been an exciting week!

Ciao,
Alberto

Lecture notes for "Climate change and global health" 2025 - University San Raffaele

"Climate change and global health" (CCGH) is a 12-hour module of the course on "Climate change and architecture for health" at the University San Raffaele in Milan. This page refers to the lectures delivered in the Fall semester of 2025.

The 12 hours of teaching will be delivered through in-presence frontal lectures. the study plan is as follows:

My interview at the TV show "Decoder" (Telereggio TV) on water resources management in Reggio Emilia (in Italian)

On October 3, 2025, I was interviewed at the TV show "Decoder" (Telereggio TV, chaired by Gabriele Franzini) on water resources management in Reggio Emilia. The interview is in Italian, for a duration of 30 minutes.

Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto

Link to the video of the interview

Video of my contribution to the "Meet the Laureate" recognition of the 2025 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

I was invited to join the "Meet the Laureate" recognition of the 2025 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Prof. Guenter Bloeschl. The event was held in Stockholm on August 27, in the presence of His Majesty Carl XIV Gustaf and Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria.

Attending the Stockholm Water Prize award ceremony was an interesting and delighting experience.

Thanks for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto

Video of "Meet the Laureate" recognition (My contribution starts at time 44.40)

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Tutorials of Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems - 2021

Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems is concentrating on the management of water resources in the presence of increasing anthropogenic pressure and climate change. The course will be taught during 48 hours of frontal teaching, including lectures given by the teacher and exercises developed by collaborative work by students and the teacher. The purpose of the course is to provide an overview of modern techniques for estimating design variables for water resources systems in the presence of human impact.

Tutorials of Harbour Engineering - 2021

The course on Harbour Engineering focuses on design of harbors and coast management. The part of course that I am teaching counts 32 hours of lectures. The teacher will make extensive use of interactivity, with the options illustrated below. Lectures include about 6 hours dedicated to solving exercises by using the personal computer, by collaborative work by students and teacher. Students will be kindly asked to bring their own personal computer to solve the exercises. Students are kindly advised to speak with me if bringing their own personal computer turns out to be not possible.

Tutorials of Science of Climate Change and Climate Actions 2021

"Science of Climate Change and Climate Actions" is a new soft skill course at the University of Bologna. It will be taught in English for a total of 24 hours (3 credits) in the second semester, by me and other expert colleagues from other Departments. Details are given here. Access is given to a maximum number of 200 students. The study plan is as follows:

Tutorials of Mountain Rivers Training (Costruzioni Idrauliche M - 2020-2021 - in Italian)

Web site providing information, tutorials and videos for the master degree course on Mountain Rivers Training. The web page is in Italian.

Questa pagina internet mette a disposizione degli studenti le informazioni ed il materiale di supporto per l'insegnamento (1 modulo, 6 crediti formativi universitari) di Costruzioni Idrauliche M indirizzato agli studenti dell'Università di Bologna.

Tutorials of Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems - 2020

Sustainable Design of Water Resources System is concentrating on the management of water resources in the presence of increasing anthropogenic pressure and climate change. The course will be taught during 48 hours of frontal teaching, including lectures given by the teacher and exercises developed by collaborative work by students and the teacher.

Tutorials of Mountain Rivers Training (Costruzioni Idrauliche M - 2019-2020 - in Italian)

Web site providing information, tutorials and videos for the master degree course on Mountain Rivers Training. The web page is in Italian.

 

 

Questa pagina internet mette a disposizione degli studenti le informazioni ed il materiale di supporto per l'insegnamento (1 modulo, 6 crediti formativi universitari) di Costruzioni Idrauliche M indirizzato agli studenti dell'Università di Bologna.

 

Tutorials of Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems - 2019

Sustainable Design of Water Resources System is a subject included in the study plan of the master degree programs in Civil Engineering and Earth Resources Engineering at the University of Bologna. The course will be taught during 48 hours of frontal teaching, including lectures given by the teacher and exercises developed by collaborative work by students and the teacher.

My live interview (in Italian) at the TRC TV on megaflood predictability

On November 27 I have been live interviewed by the TV channel TRC. The discussion focused on predictability of megafloods, after the publication of the Nature Geoscience paper  "Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments", authored by Miriam Bertola with a large pool of co-authors.

The interview can be watched here. The video has been kindly provided by TRC Bologna.

Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto

My presentation at the International Conference Themes 2023 titled "Long term cycles in hydroclimatic processes: the unresolved enigma of climatic variability"

My presentation "Long term cycles in hydroclimatic processes:  the unresolved enigma of climatic variability" at the International Conference Themes 2023 (Venice, November 15, 2023) is available for download at  the link below.

Thank you for your interest.

Ciao,
Alberto 

My presentation at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society "Pandemics, geopolitics, economic inflation and water resources management"" (in Italian)

My presentation "Pandemics, geopolitics, economic inflation and water resources management" (in Italian) at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society is available for download at the link below. It's a new interdisciplinary adventure stimulated by the awareness that water resources management is driven by forcings related to political economy.

Thank you for your interest.

Ciao,
Alberto 

My poster contribution "Why the 2022 drought in the Po River is the worst ever" (in Italian) at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society

My poster contribution titled "Why the 2022 drought in the Po River is the worst ever" (in Italian) presented at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society is available for download at the link below.

Thanks for your interest!

Best,
Alberto

Article on Nature Italy and press coverage on the 2022 drought along the Po River

Nature Italy published an article by Ginevra Chelli titled "Po river drought in 2022 was the worst of the last two centuries", that comments on the results presented in the paper ""Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries" published in Science Advances, by myself, Hung Nguyen, Sara Rubinetti, Serena Ceola, Stefano Galelli, Angelo Rubino and Davide Zanchettin.

The paper was widely commented by the press. Please see:

Paper on Science Advances: Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries

The paper "Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries" by myself, Hung Nguyen, Sara Rubinetti, Serena Ceola, Stefano Galelli, Angelo Rubino and Davide Zanchettin has been just published by Science Advances. The paper is open access.

The study focuses on the extreme drought that in 2022 hit the Po River basin and attempts to understand its drivers.

Article on Nature on the floods in the Emilia-Romagna region (in Italian and English)

Nature published an article titled "Examining the role of climate change in the Emilia-Romagna floods", that makes considerations on the causes of the flood and presents a brief review of relevant scientific contributions. I was interviewed by the journalist, thus the article includes some statements by me. I believe it is an interesting reading for getting more details on what happened.

Here the version in Italian.