Alberto Montanari
Professor of Hydraulic Works and Hydrology
Department DICAM - Faculty of Engineering - University of Bologna
Via del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna
E-mail: alberto.montanari@unibo.it Phone: +39 051 2093356 Fax +39 051 2093140




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Alberto Montanari

Professor of Hydraulic Works and Hydrology

Curriculum vitae et studiorum

Current position

  • Professor of Hydraulic works and Hydrology at the Department DICAM of the University of Bologna. Alberto Montanari is currently teaching Water Resources Management M (6 European Credits ECTS), Hydraulic works (6 ECTS) and Advanced Hydrology and Water Resources Management (taught in English, 6 ECTS) in the degree programmes in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna. He is member of the Council of the School of Engineering and the Council of the Ph.D. programme in Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna.
  • Coordinator of the Bachelor and Master Degree Programmes in Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna.
  • Council Member of the School of Engineering and Arc hitecture at the University of Bologna.
  • Editor in Chief from 2013 al 2017 of the scientific journal Water Resources Research, published by American Geophysical Union (wrr.agu.org).
  • Chair from 2013 to 2015 of the International Scientific Decade 2013-2022 "Panta Rhei - Change in Hydrology and Society" of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).
  • Chair of the Union Award Committee of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) from 2009.
  • President of the International Commission on Water Resources Systems of IAHS.
  • National representative for Italy within IAHS.
  • Member of the John Dalton and Henry Darcy Medal Committees of EGU.
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee "Florence 2016" which is in charge of proposing solution for the mitigation of the hydraulic risk for the city.
  • Chair of the Leonardo Committee of EGU.
  • Council Member of the Ph.D programme in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering at the University of Bologna.
  • Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), EGU ed IAHS.
  • Member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Reggio Emilia.

Past positions

  • President of the Division on Hydrological Sciences of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) from 2007 to 2011.
  • Chair from 2011 to 2013 of the Task Force of the IAHS which prepared a proposal for the scientific decade 2013-2022 of IAHS.
  • From 2004 to 2013 he has been Editor of the scientific journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, pubished by EGU.
  • From 2010 to 2013 he has bees Associate Editor of the scientific journal Survey in Geophysics, published by Springer.
  • From 2011 to 2013 he has been Associate Editor of the scientific journal Hydrological Sciences Journal published by IAHS.

Scholastic career

  • High School Diploma: High School Diploma in Environmental Survey and Civil Constructions obtained in 1985 in Reggio Emilia, with the maximum grade (60/60).
  • Master Degree: Master Degree in Civil and Hydraulic engineering obtained at the University of Parma in 1992, maximum grade cum laude, by defending a master degree thesis entitled “A Water Quality Model of the Baganza River (in Italian)”, whose supervisor was Renzo Rosso.
  • Professional habilitation: professional habilitation in Engineering obtained in Parma in 1992.
  • Ph.D.:Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering obtained in 1996 by defending a Ph.D. thesis entitled "Stochastic Modelling of Hydrological Variables Affected by Long Term Persistence” (in Italian).

Academic Career

  • Post-doctoral student at the University of Bologna from March 1997 to January 1998.
  • Assistant Professor in Hydraulic Works and Hydrology at the Department DISTART of the University of Bologna from 1998 to 2001.
  • Associate Professor at the Department DISTART (now Department DICAM) of the University of Bologna from 2001 to 2012.
  • Professor at the Department DICAM) of the University of Bologna from 2012.

Teaching Activity

Teaching activity in University subjects
  • 1994-1998 Seminars taught to students of the subjects on "Environmental Hydraulic Protection", Hydraulic Infrastructures and Watershed Management at the Polytechnic of Milan. In the same period he co-advised 6 master degree thesis.
  • 1998-2001 Seminars taught to students of the subjects on Hydraulic Works and Environmental Hydraulic Protection in the master degree programmes in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna. In the same period he has been co-advisor of 22 master degree theses.
  • 2001-2005 Professor of the subject on Water Resources Management in the master degree programmes in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna.
  • 2003-2010 Professor of the subject on Water Resources Management L in the master degree programmes in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna.
  • 2006-2009 Professor of the subject on Hydrological Modelling LS in the master degree programme in Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna.
  • 2009- Professor of the subject on Hydraulic Works M (integrated with the subject on Environmental Hydraulic Protection M) in the master degree programme in Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna.
  • 2010- Professor of the subject on Water Resources Management M (integrated with the subject on Wastewater Treatment M) in the master degree programme in Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna.
  • 2010- Professor of the subject on Advanced Hydrology and Water Resources Management (taught in English) in the degree programmes in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna.
He is currently coordinating 5 Erasmus exchanges programmes with: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Universidad De Salamanca, Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, Delft University of Technology.

Teaching activity in post-degree courses, Masters and Ph.D. courses
  • 1998 Seminar "Statistical analysis of short duration and heavy precipitation", at the post-graduate course "Environmental engineering for river basin management", held in Milan from 5 to 9 October 1998, organised by Politechnic of Milan and University of Bologna.
  • 1999 Seminar "Hydrological analysis to support environmental engineering: heavy rainfall", at the post-graduate course "Advanced methods for the design of environmental engineering methods for river basin management", held in Milan from 4 to 8 October 1999, organised by Politechnic of Milan, University of Bologna and University of Parma.
  • 2004-2008 Council member for the following Ph.D. courses: "Hydraulic Engineering" at the Polytechnic of Milan (2004-2005); "Hydraulic Engineering: water science and technology" at the University of Bologna (2006-2007); "Structural and Hydraulic Engineering" at the University of Bologna from 2008; "Civil, Environmental and Material Engineering" at the University of Bologna from 2010.
  • 2005 Seminars entitled "Uncertainty estimation for hydrological models" and "Distributed rainfall-runoff modelling" within the Master Programme "Mathematical modelling of hydrogeological disasters" at the University of Calabria (Italy).
  • 2006-2007 Professor at the Advanced Course for the Design of Structures for the Mitigation of Flood and Hydrogeologic Risk for South America Engineers, held at the Department DISTART of the University of Bologna.
  • 2006 Seminar "Rainfall-Runoff models for Water Resources Management", within the Post- graduate Specialization Course in Management of Water Resources and Services, organised by Hydroaid (Torino).
  • 2007 Seminar "Climate change: human induced effects and natural fluctuations", at the University of Florence, within the International Ph.D. Course on "Mitigation of risk due to natural hazards on Structures and Infrastructures".
  • 2008 Coordinator of the Winter School for Ph.D. students "Uncertainty assessment in Hydrological Modelling", held in Bertinoro (Forli') 5-7 March 2008 (37 participants).
  • 2009-2010 Professor of the subiject "Management of Risks induced by Droughts" within the Master "Management of risk induced by Natural Hazards", held at the University of Bologna.

Research activity

Brief summary of past and current research activity

Alberto Montanari’s research activity has been always inspired by the will to contribute to solve practical engineering problems related to water, with particular focus on his native region. In particular, he focused on flood modelling and water resources management. Actually, the primary focus of Alberto Montanari is rainfall-runoff modelling and the related open research challenges for the practical application of hydrological models in engineering design.

Alberto Montanari began his research activity in 1993, by studying statistical techniques for simulating and predicting rainfall fields. The main goal of this research studies was to verify the performances of statistical methods for short term rainfall prediction, to improve the reliability flood forecasting systems. Moreover, analyses were carried out to detect the possible presence of non-stationarity in long rainfall records and assess the uncertainty in the estimation of the critical design storm. These latter analyses were carried out by referring to long rainfall records observed in Italy.

Furthermore, Alberto Montanari dedicated his attention to the development of innovative methods for generating synthetic hydrological series observed at fine time scale, in the possible presence of long-term persistence, non-Gaussianity and intermittence. Such activity has been carried out during two periods of study at the Department of Mathematics of the Boston University (USA). Then, Alberto Montanari focused on the use of statistical techniques to improve real time river flow predictions obtained through lumped and spatially-distributed rainfall-runoff models.

The current research activity is articulated in the following subjects:
  1. Spatially-distributed rainfall runoff models.
  2. Uncertainty analysis for hydrological models.
  3. Analysis of hydrological change.
  4. Drought management and environmental flow requirements.
  5. Development of a statistically based framework for the application of conceptual and physically-based rainfall-runoff with uncertainty analysis.
Within activity 1 above, a spatially distributed rainfall-runoff model was set up which is based on the application of conceptual schemes. The source code of the model has been made available on the personal web site of Alberto Montanari and is currently used by several research groups at the international level. The model is fully described in a user guide that can be downloaded from the same web site and 2 papers that were published by international scientific journals.

Uncertainty assessment in hydrology represents one of the major focuses of Alberto Montanari. The purpose is to set up methodologies to aid the practical application of hydrological models for solving design problems. The activity was first addressed to developing methods for inferring the statistical properties of hydrological model errors. To this purpose, Alberto Montanari developed a meta-Gaussian approach that was already used in several applications. Currently, Alberto Montanari is dedicating his attention to setting up a stochastic physically-based framework to predict the statistical features of future hydrological behaviour (see item 5 below).

Hydrological change is a key issue that is recently catching the attention of the International hydrological community. Indeed, the relevant transformations that are occurring in many catchments and the possible effects of climate variability are posing new challenges for hydrological modelling, with the increasing necessity of taking into account the uncertainties that may derive by limited representativity of past situations. Alberto Montanari is currently chairing the new IAHS science initiative for the decade 2013-2022, which aims to address the international research efforts dedicated to the study of the above problems.

Drought management is a recent research focus of Alberto Montanari, that was involved in consulting activities commissioned by local administrations of the Emilia-Romagna region, in Italy. Actually this region is experiencing water scarcity problems due to increasing need of water for irrigation and the recent requirements in terms of water quality dictated by the water framework directive. The activity of Alberto Montanari is finalised, on the one hand, to water resources assessment in ungauged basins and, on the other hand, to developing innovative techniques for the estimation of environmental flow requirements.

The most recent research focus of Alberto Montanari is related to embedding physically-based hydrological modelling within a stochastic framework for simultaneously perform model application and uncertainty assessment.

Besides the main research efforts above, Alberto Montanari dealt with many other side subjects related to hydrology and water resources management. He published several ISI papers on regionalisation of extreme hydrological values, environmental flow requirements, estimation of soil erosion, assessment of bed load transport, marine engineering, climate change analysis and impact, calibration of hydrological models.

Scientific papers and citations

Alberto Montanari is author or co-author of 135 papers published on international ISI journals (72 papers), conference proceedings or book chapters (55 papers) and edited books or monographs (8 publications).

According to the data base of the ISI Web of Science the publications by Alberto Montanari are 72. The total number of citations is 1790. The average number of citations per paper is 25.2, with a maximum of 136 citations and second value, in descending order, of 116. The H index is 24.

Editorial activity

Alberto Montanari is Editor of Water Resources Research, published by the American Geophysical Union.

He has been Editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, published by the European Geosciences Union, Associate Editor of Water Resources Research, Associate Editor of Survey in Geophysics, published by Springer, Associate Editor of the journal Hydrological Sciences Journal published by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, and Associate Editor of the scientific journal Open Civil Engineering Journal published by Bentham Science Publishers.

Alberto Montanari has been Guest Editor of the following spcial issues of International scientific journals:
  1. Special Issue of the journal Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, entitled "Predicting and Estimating Extremes of Precipitation", volume 26, 2001.
  2. Special Issue of the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, titled "Climatic and anthropogenic effects on hydrological processes", volume 26, 2002.
  3. Special Issue of the journal Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, entitled "Hydrological Processes and Distributed Hydrological Modelling", volume 28, 2003.
  4. Special Issue of the Journal of Hydrology, entitled "Catchment modelling: towards an improved representation of the hydrological processes n real-world model applications", volume 291, 2004.
  5. Special Issue of the journal Water Resources Research, entitled Uncertainty assessment in surface and subsurface hydrology.
Alberto Montanari edited the book “Hydrological Risk - Recent advances in peak river flow modelling, prediction and real-time forecasting - Assessment of the impacts of land-use and climate changes”, published by BIOS (Italy) in 2004, and the book “Evolving Water Resources Systems: understanding, predicting and managing water-society interactions, published by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences in 2014.

Organisation and chairing of international symposia

Alberto Montanari has been organiser and chairman of the following sessions that took place during General Assemblies of the the European Geophysical Society and European Geosciences Union:
  • Catchment hydrology:Hydrological processes and catchment modelling, Nizza, 2002, 22-26 April 2002.
  • Incorporating hydrological processes knowledge into catchment modelling, Nizza, 6-11 April 2003.
  • Environmental flow requirements, Nizza, 25-30 April 2004.
  • Science Impact in Hydrology, main scientific organizer, Vienna, 13-18 April 2008.
  • Process Understanding and Hydrological Modeling in Ungauged Catchments, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2009.
  • New instrumentations and data analysis techniques for a developing hydrology, Vienna, 19-24 April 2009.
  • Interdisciplinarity in Hydrology, Vienna, 02-07 May 2010.
  • Perspectives for the Future of Hydrology in a Changing Environment. Memorial Session in Honour of Professor Jim Dooge, Vienna, 03-08 April 2011.
  • Visionary session on the next Hydrological Decade, Vienna, 22-27 April 2012.
  • Scientific Decade 2013-2022: Open Visionary Sessions on the Research Challenges for Hydrology in the next 10 Years, Delft, 25 October 2012.

Invited lectures and presentations

  • 1994: "Stochastic simulation of hydrological data using fractionally differenced ARIMA models", Department of Mathematics, Boston University, 29 November 1994.
  • 1995: "Fractionally integrated ARIMA models. An example of long-memory stochastic processes", Polytechnic of Milan, Department of Hydraulics, 16 february 1995.
  • 1995: "Stochastic modelling of non-Gaussian, long-memory hydrological data", Department of Mathematics, Boston University, 28 September 1995.
  • 1996: "Stochastic modelling of seasonal data: a scale invariant approach", invited talk at the XXI General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Den Haag (The Netherlands), 6-10 May 1996.
  • 1997: "Seasonal long-memory modeling: applications and recent developments", invited talk at the international workshop "Scaling, (Quasi-) Long Range Dependence and Self-Similarity: Theory and Applications," Guanajuato, Mexico, 14-16 March 1997.
  • 1998: "Statistical analysis of short duration and high frequency storms", at the High Level Teaching Programme "Green engineering for river and catchment training", hold in Milan from October 5 to 9, 1998, organised by Polytechnic of Milan and University of Bologna.
  • 1999: "Extreme Rainfall", at the High Level Teaching Programme "Advanced methods for the design of green engineering policies for river and watershed training", hold in Milan from October 4 to 8, 1999, organised by Polytechnic of Milan, University of Bologna and University of Parma.
  • 2002: "Estimation of extreme events of hydrological variables", Polytechnic of Turin, Department of Statistics, 23 January 2002.
  • 2004: "Assessing the uncertainty of rainfall-runoff simulations: a review and comparison of different techniques", invited talk at the 1st EGU General Assembly, Nice (France), 25 - 30 April 2004.
  • 2004: "An attempt to quantify uncertainty in observed river flows: effect on parameterisation and performance evaluation of rainfall-runoff models", invited talk at the 2004 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco (USA), 13-17 December 2004.
  • 2005: "Uncertainty estimation in hydrology" and "Distributed rainfall-runoff modelling" at the Master Course"Mathematical modelling of hydrogeological disasters" at the Calabria University.
  • 2006: "Calibration of spatially-distributed hydrological models: possible strategies and analysis of the effects of data availability", invited talk at the 3rd EGU General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), 2-7 April 2006.
  • 2006: "Calibration of hydrological models in the spectral domain: a chance for ungauged basins", invited talk at the 3rd EGU General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), 2-7 April 2006.
  • 2006: "Rainfall-Runoff models for water resources management", at the high level teaching programme "Post- graduate specialization course in management of water resources and services", organised by Hydroaid (Turin).
  • 2007: "Global uncertainty assessment in hydrological forecasting by means of statistical analysis of forecast errors", invited talk at the 2007 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco (USA), 10-14 December 2007.
  • 2007: "Climate change: human induced effects and natural fluctuations", at the International Ph.D. Programme "Mitigation of risk due to natural hazards on Structures and Infrastructures" of the University of Florence.
  • 2008: "Uncertainty estimation in hydrological forecasting: should we use statistics?", invited talk at the International Unesco Workshop "Modelling Flood and Droughts - Uncertainty estimates for Water Resources Management", Prague 13-14 March 2008.
  • 2008: "Hydrological signatures: looking for macro-scale signatures of local scale processes", invited talk at the Master Class "Hydrologic Science for an Ever Changing World: Search for New Hydrologic Concepts, Theories, Models and Practices", Delft, 23-25 June 2008.
  • 2009: "Statistical properties of hydrological processes in the frequency and time domain: new insights for the calibration of hydrological models in ungauged basins ", at the UNESCO Institute for Water Education, Delft, 29 September 2009.
  • 2010: "Towards a theory of uncertainty assessment in hydrological modelling", invited talk at the al XXXII Italian National Conference on Hydraulics and Hydraulics Works, Palermo, 14-17 September 2010.
  • 2011: "Uncertainty estimation in hydrology Incorporating physical knowledge in stochastic modeling of uncertain systems", invited talk at the Uppsala University Sweden, Uppsala 9 June 2011.
  • 2012: "Hydrology of the Po River: looking for changing patterns in river discharge", invited talk at the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome 22 March 2012.
  • 2012: "Towards the IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022", invited talk at the Hohai University, Nanjing, China, 12 May 2012.
  • 2012: "Uncertainty estimation in hydrology, or Stochastic physically-based modeling of uncertain hydrological systems", invited talk at EPFL Lausanne, 12 June 2012.
  • 2012: "Modelling flood change", invited talk at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, 4 September 2012.
  • 2012: "A tribute to Vit Klemes", invited talk at the STAHY International Workshop, Tunis, 2 October 2012.
  • 2012: "An overview of the Science Plan of the IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022", invited talk at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, 25 October 2012.
  • 2013: “Impatto del cambiamento climatico sul rischio di alluvione: recenti orientamenti della ricerca scientifica nazionale ed internazionale”, invited talk at the “Giornate dell'Idrologia”, Naples, 11 January 2013.
  • 2013: “Climate ChangeVerso un cambio di clima anche nella collaborazione accademica?”, invited talk at the round table of the “Marchi Lecture”, Milan, May 31st 2013.
  • 2013: “Panta Rhei: The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022”, invited talk at the IAHS General Assembly, July 24th, 2013.
  • 2014: “Perspectives for the use of big data in environmental planning and management”, invited talk at the EGU General Assembly, April 2014.
  • 2014: “Towards a theory for hydrological change”, invited talk at the EGU General Assembly, April 2014.
  • 2014: “Meet the expert in hydrology - How young scientists can contribute to ‘Hydrology in a changing world’”, invited talk at the EGU General Assembly, April 2014.
  • 2014: “Panta Rhei – Everything Flows: Change in Hydrology and Society - Towards a theoretical framework for change assessment and attribution in hydrology”, invited talk at the CUAHSI Biennal Meeting, West Virginia, July 2014.
  • 2014: “Solving Water Crisis through Understanding of Hydrology and Human Systems: a Possible Target?”, invited talk at the AGU Fall Meeting, December 2014.

Coordination of Research Projects

  • 2004-2012: Coordinator of the Working Group at the University of Bologna on "Design Flow Estimation in Ungauged Basins", within the international research initiative Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) promoted by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences.
  • 2007-2008 National Coordinator of the research project "Advanced Techniques for Estimating and Predicting Extreme Hydrological Events with Uncertainty Analysis (SPIE)", financed by the Italian Government.
  • 2009-2012 National Coordinator Progetto of the research project "Uncertainty Analysis for Rainfall and River Flow Data and Effects on Water Resources Management", financed by the Italian Government.
  • 2013-2017: Coordinator at the University of Bologna of the research project “Sharing Water-related Information to Tackle Changes in the Hydrosphere – for Operational Needs (SWITCH-ON), financed by the European Union.

Participation to International Research Projects

  • 1996-1997: Post-doctoral researcher in the project "Production of precipitation scenarios for impact assessment of climate change in Europe" (POPSICLE), financed within the 4th Framework Programme of the European Union.
  • 1998-2000: Associate researcher in the project "Flash-flood risk assessment under the impacts of land use changes and river engineering works" (Framework), financed within the 5th Framework Programme of the European Union.
  • 2001-2002: Associate researcher in the project "Multi-sensor precipitation measurements integration, calibration and flood forecasting" (MUSIC), financed within the 5th Framework Programme of the European Union.
  • 2011-2012: Associate researcher in the project "Transitions to the urban water services of tomorrow" (TRUST), financed within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union.
  • 2013-2017: Coordinator at the University of Bologna of the research project “Sharing Water-related Information to Tackle Changes in the Hydrosphere – for Operational Needs (SWITCH-ON), financed by the European Union.

Coordination of Consulting Activities

Alberto Montanari has been coordinator of the following consulting activities dealing with river basin management, water resources management and hydraulic engineering:
  • Analysis of the hydrological and environmental impact of the mining activities programmed by the local administration of Reggio Emilia in the river floodplains, financed by the Province of Reggio Emilia (ended in 2003).
  • Analysis of the hydrological and environmental impact of the mining activities programmed by the Province of Modena in river floodplains, financed by the Province of Modena (ended in 2003).
  • Preliminary design of a small hydropower plant on the Navile Channel at Bentivoglio (BO), located in the old Pizzardi water mill, financed by the Municipality of Bentivoglio (ended in 2004).
  • Consulting activity for the preparation of the Water Resources Management Plan of the Province of Reggio Emilia, financed by the Province of Reggio Emilia (ended in 2006).
  • 2-D hydraulic model of the lower course of the Reno River, financed by Niagara Srl (private company, ended in 2006).
  • Analysis of the water losses in open channels in the Province of Reggio Emilia (Italy), financed by the Emilia-Romagna Region (ended in 2007).
  • Consulting activity on the asset of the sewer system of the city of Reggio Emilia, financed by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia (ended in 2008).
  • Hydrological impact of the mining activities along the Panaro River, Financed by the Province of Modena (ended in 2008).
  • Consulting activity for water resources management in the Enza Valley, financed by the Province of Reggio Emilia (ended in 2012).
  • Analysis of the effects onflow routing and sediment transport of barriages along the lower course of the Po River, financed by ARPA Ingegneria Ambientale (ended in 2010).
  • Monitoring of the new fish ramp along the Fiume Secchia at Fornace, financed by SEA Srl.
  • Analysis of likely inundation scenarios of the industrial plant of Niagara Srl, financed by Niagara Srl (private company; ended in 2011)
  • Analysis of the seasonal flood frequency distribution along the Blue Nile River, financed by Studio Pietrangeli Srl (professional engineers; ended in 2012).
  • Assessment of the hydrological balance of the Lake of Monate, financed by Comune di Travedona Monate (ended in 2013).
  • Monitoring the environmental impact of the mining activities at Cava Faraona and Cava Santa Maria (Italy), financed by Comune di Travedona Monate.

Scientific and Teaching awards

  • "Young Scientist Travel Award" conferred by the European Geophysical Society during the XX General Assembly held in Hamburg (Germany) from 3 to 7 April, 1995.
  • "Young Scientist Travel Award" conferred by the European Geophysical Society during the XXI General Assembly held at Den Haag (The Netherlands) from 6 to 10 May, 1996.
  • Award "Best Teacher Award 2014" assigned by the Department DICAM of the University of Bologna for the Master Degree Programme in Environmental Engineering.

Other teaching and research activities

Alberto Montanari has been the promoter of the Leonardo Conference Series of the European Geosciences Union, which was started in 2009. He was Member of the International Scientific Steering Committee of the HyMEx research project from 2008 to 2012.

Activities in Academic Commissions

  • President of the Permanent Research Commission of the Department DISTART of the University of Bologna from 2008 to 2010.
  • President of Library Committee of the Department DISTART (and subsequently DICAM) of the University of Bologna from 2006 to 2010.
  • Member of the Library G.P. Dore Committee of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bologna from 2008 to 2010.
  • Member of the Didactic Commission of the Degree Programme in Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bologna from 2005.
  • Council member of the School in Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna since2012.

Activities in National and International Ph.D. Tribunals and other Evaluating Commissions

  • 2001: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Santiago Salsón Casado, at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
  • 2003: Member of the commission of the admission concourse at the Ph.D. programme in Hydraulic Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan.
  • 2005: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense in Hydraulic Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan.
  • 2005: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense in Earth Sciences at the University of Milan.
  • 2006: Member of the Commission for the concourse for one position of assistant professor at the Calabria University.
  • 2006: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Ricardo Alexander Gonzales Marrero, at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
  • 2007: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. of the Ph.D. programme in Environmental Engineering at the University of Trento.
  • 2007: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of the Ph.D. programme in Hydrodynamic and Environmental Modelling at the University of Padua.
  • 2007: Member of the commission of the admission concourse at the Ph.D. programme in Hydraulic Engineering: Water Science and Technology at the University of Bologna.
  • 2007: Member of the Commission for the concourse for one position of assistant professor at the Polytechnic of Milan.
  • 2007: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Roberta Serena Blasone, at the Technical University of Denmark.
  • 2008: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of the Ph.D. programme in Hydraulic Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan.
  • 2008: External examiner of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Jos Samuel, at the University of Western Australia.
  • 2008: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Fabrizio Fenicia, at the Technical University of Delft.
  • 2009: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Hessel Winsemius, at the Technical University of Delft.
  • 2010: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Ignacio Andrés-Domenech, at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
  • 2011: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of the Ph.D. programme in Physical Environmental Modelling at the University of Bologna.
  • 2011: External opponent of the final Ph.D. defense of Ida Westerberg, at the Uppsala University Sweden.
  • 2011: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Giulia Napolitano, at the University of Leeds.
  • 2012: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Cara Tobin, at the EPFL Lausanne.
  • 2013: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Luciano Raso, at TUD Delft.
  • 2013: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Hydaiat, at Wageningen University.
  • 2014: Member of the Commission for the evaluation of Greek State Universities professors.
  • 2014: Member of the evaluation Commission for one position of associate professor at the University of Padua.
  • 2014: Member of the Tribunal of the final Ph.D. defense of Elena Szolgayova, at the Technical University of Wien.
  • Activity in medal and awards committees

    2009- Chair of the Union Awards and Medals Committee of the European Geosciences Union

    2007- Member of the Dalton and Darcy Medal Committees of the European Geosciences Union.
  • 2014: Member of the SENSE review panel for Universities in The Netherlands.

Scientific publications

ISI publications.
Conference proceedings.
Monographs.


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