"What's next for EDI in these turbulent times?", Great Debate at the EGU General Assembly 2026: my presentation is available at the link below.
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Alberto
My poster "Why a new global vision is needed for equality diversity and inclusivity in the geosciences", presented at the EGU General Assembly 2026 is available for download at the link below.
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Alberto
My presentation titled "Ten tips to write an appealing (successful?) research proposal", given at the short course "Breaking Boundaries: Mastering Research Proposals – Insights and Strategies from a Global South Perspective", EGU General Assembly 2026, is available for download at the link below.
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Alberto
My invited presentation titled "The Energy of Floods: an Overlooked Perspective on Flood Impact Amplification" at the 2026 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union is available for download at the link below,
Thanks for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto
My presentation at the Water Seminar Green Transition, Innovation and Resilience in Integrated Water Resources Management (Bergamo, April 15, 2026), titled "Long term droughts and Day Zero. The Sword of Damocles of large water supply systems (in Italian) is available at the link below.
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Ciao,
Alberto
A video presenting an extract of my interview at Buongiorno Reggio (Telereggio TV, January 30, 2026) is available at the link below. It is in Italian and refers to water supply and sewer systems of Reggio Emilia.
Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto
My invited presentation "Servizi climatici a supporto della gestione delle risorse idriche: nuove soluzioni per complessità crescenti in un mondo che cambia" (in Italian) at the meeting "Sicurezza delle Infrastrutture", Torino, 15-16 January 2026 is available at the link below.
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Ciao,
Alberto
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is basically a powerful computer program that simulates the atmosphere. Scientists and forecasters use it to study weather and climate—from everyday storms to long-term climate patterns. It’s very flexible: you can plug in different physics options, adjust the resolution, or zoom into a specific region to get more detail.
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
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.
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Best,
Alberto
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)
The scientific paper "Combining uncertainty quantification and entropy-inspired concepts into a single objective function for rainfall-runoff model calibration" by Alonso Pizarro, Demetris Koutsoyiannis and me has been just published by Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. It is open access. It focuses on calibration of hydrological models by using an objective function that combines uncertainty minimisation and entropy concepts.
My presentation at the Euro-CASE 2025 conference (Vienna, September 29, 2025) titled "Is complexity the reason for limited predictability of environmental extremes?" is available at the link below.
Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto
At the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society I delivered a short contribution focusing on engineering design under climate change. My presentation is available at the link below.
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Ciao,
Alberto
The editorial "Commitment to advance excellence and inclusion in the Earth and space sciences scholarly publications" has been recently published in AGU Advances. It is co-authored by several editors in chief of the American Geophysical Union and comments on recent developments and future perspectives about equality, diversity and inclusivity in science.
Thanks for your interest.
All the best,
Alberto
The scientific paper "Assessment of climate change impacts on groundwater exploitation sustainability in the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy)" has been just published in the Hydrological Sciences Journal.
Thanks to Ilaria Delfini for leading the study!
Thanks for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto
Two years after the flood in Romagna, the regional administration has published on YouTube ‘Let's talk about’: social pills of the Emilia-Romagna region on floods (in Italian).
The scientific paper "Leverage Points and Cascading Impacts Analysis in Nexus Systems Using System Dynamics Modeling" (open access) has been published in Earth's Future in July. It is an application of dynamical system modelling to study the interaction between catchment and societal dynamics.
Thanks a lot to Virginia Coletta for leading this adventure!
Thanks for your interest.
Alberto
My presentation titled "Hydrology and Civil Protection in Italy as seen by Lino Versace" (in Italian) delivered at the meeting "Raccontare Lino", Cosenza, July 3rd, 2025.
Thanks for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto
My presentation at the General Assembly 2025 of the European Geosciences Union (Vienna April 27-May 2) titled "Uncertainty estimation for environmental predictions: the BLUECAT approach and software" is available for download at the link below.
Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto
