Associate professor and director of the Water Resources Research and Documentation Center at University for Foreigners of Perugia. Scientific interests pertain to water resources and systems, flood risk management, sustainable and smart urban planning. Research outcomes, featured in major international journals, investigate on hydrologic-hydraulic modelling, geospatial information systems and algorithms, Open/Big Data and Citizen Science for monitoring, forecasting and mapping flood risk in complex and ungauged urban, rural and coastal ecosystems.