Alberto Montanari

My presentation at the Water Seminar, Bergamo April 15, 2026

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.

Thanks for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto

Lecture notes for How to Read and Write a Scientific Paper

How to read and write a scientific paper is a soft skill course at the University of Bologna guiding students to their first approaches to the scientific literature. Scientific papers are the means to discovery and advance of human knowledge, but for many students and early-career researchers, they can look intimidating, opaque, or even incomprehensible.

Lecture notes for Science of Climate Change 2026

"Science of Climate Change" will be taught in English for a total of 48 hours (6 credits) in the second semester. 24 hours will be taught by me, the other lectures will be given by Alessio Domeneghetti and Mattia Neri. Details are given here. The study plan for the first 24 hours - my lectures - is as follows:

My interview (in Italian) at Telereggio TV on integrated water services at Reggio Emilia

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

The press release of the interview (with video)

Lecture notes for Actions on structures and infrastructures in a changing climate

Actions on structures and infrastructures in a changing climate concentrates on methods to estimate climate related loads for structures and infrastructures. I am teaching 36 hours of the course, including lectures given by the teacher and exercises developed by collaborative work by students and the teacher.