Marco MARANI
Full Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Padova (Italy) and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Ocean Sciences and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University (USA)
His research interests span flow and transport in the hydrologic cycle, hydro-meteorology, geomorphology, remote sensing, hydrologic drivers of disease vectors. Rainfall, and extremes in particular, have been some of his long-term research interests. He has been the PI in several national and international projects. Most recently: “Integrated Numerical Modelling of the watershed-lagoon-sea system in Venice”, 2018-2021; “Optimal Satellite-based Estimation of Extreme Rainfall at the Global Scale”, NASA Earth Science Fellowship, Duke University, 2017-2018. He is Member of Venice Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, (2012-today), and of the Galileian Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts (2018-). He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and of the European Geosciences Union. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 5 chapters in edited books, about 120 abstracts presented in international conferences, and has edited 2 books.