People
Faculty Members
ANDREA CASTELLETTI
Lab Head - Full Professor
MATTEO GIULIANI
Assistant Professor
Matteo Giuliani is assistant professor in the Environmental Intelligence Lab. He graduated with a double MSc degree in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino in 2010, and obtained the Diploma of the Alta Scuola Politecnica — V cycle in 2011. He received a PhD in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano in 2014, after a visiting period at Penn State University (PA, USA). He was then post-doctoral research fellow and, since November 2016, he is assistant professor in the Department of Electronics Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano. From 2018 to 2020, he was Academic Guest at ETH Zurich for a collaboration with the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research Supply of Electricity (SCCER-SoE). The primary focus of his research is the integrated management of water resources in complex engineering systems involving multiple actors and exposed to evolving multisectoral demands and global change; his main research areas include multi-objective optimization and control algorithms, decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning and multi-agent systems.
Research team
WYATT ARNOLD
Post Graduate Research Fellow
Wyatt Arnold is a research fellow at the EI Lab. He received his MSc degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California Davis in 2021. Prior to joining the EI Lab, Wyatt worked as a water resources engineer for the California Department of Water Resources on climate change vulnerability and adaptation planning for the State’s regional water supply system and watershed-scale multi-objective assessments of flood and drought risk. His research interests include hydro-economic modeling of multi-reservoir conjunctive use systems, optimization under uncertain non-stationarity, and formulation of robust and flexible plans for food-water-energy security and sustainability.
GUIDO ASCENSO
Post Doc Research Fellow
Guido Ascenso is a post-doctoral researcher at the EI Lab in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano. His academic career includes a BSc in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an MSc in Sports Biomechanics from Robert Gordon University; he is currently waiting to receive his PhD in Applied Deep Learning from Manchester Metropolitan University. His current research focuses on the application of deep learning methods to model extreme events like cyclones. His research interests also include computer vision, shortcut learning, and causality.
ANGELO CARLINO
Post Doc Research Fellow
Angelo Carlino is a postdoctoral researcher at the EI Lab. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Environmental Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He also obtained his PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano in 2022 after discussing the thesis “Decision-making under uncertainty for complex socio-environmental systems”. In his research, he applies algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty and multi-objective decision support in the context of integrated assessment models for climate policy and to support water-energy nexus analyses in the EU and in the African continent.
NICOLA CRIPPA
Post Graduate Research Fellow
Nicola Crippa is a research fellow at the EI Lab. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, respectively in 2019 and 2022. His research focuses on assessing the hydro-meteorological forecast value in informing reservoir operations in the water-stressed climate-change hotspot Mediterranean basins.
ANDREA FICCHÌ
Post Doc Research Fellow
Andrea Ficchì is a post-doctoral researcher at the EI Lab at Politecnico di Milano. He received a MSc degree in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2013, after an internship at IRSTEA (now INRAE) in Montpellier and a visiting period at TU Delft on real-time control of water reservoirs using ensemble weather forecasts. He received a PhD in Hydrology from University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 2017, after working as a researcher at IRSTEA in Antony (France) on the development of hydrological models across sub-daily temporal scales for flood forecasting applications. From 2017 to 2021, he has worked as part of the FATHUM project at the University of Reading and as a visiting scientist at ECMWF, contributing to the use and evaluation of a global flood prediction system (the Copernicus EMS – Global Flood Awareness System) to support humanitarian early actions across sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Mozambique and Uganda. His main research areas include hydro-meteorological forecasts, decision-making under uncertainty, forecast-based action, hydrological modelling, African hydrology, and climate teleconnections.
PAOLO GAZZOTTI
Post Doc Research Fellow
Dr. Paolo Gazzotti is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the EI Lab. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering in the same institution. His research focuses on Integrated Assessment Models and Agent-Based Modeling techniques to assess optimal climate change mitigation policies and explore negotiation strategies in international climate agreements.
ELENA MATTA
Post Doc Research Fellow
MARCO MICOTTI
Senior research associate
SANDRA RICART
Post Doc Research Fellow
Dr. Sandra Ricart is a human-environment geographer, currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action IF post-doctoral researcher at the EI Lab. She received her bachelor’s in Geography and master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Girona, Spain, and a Ph.D. in Experimental Sciences and Sustainability at the same institution. Her research interests include the management and governance of water resources in socio-ecological systems and farmers’ behavior regarding climate change impacts and adaptation measures through stakeholder analysis and social-learning approaches. Sandra co-authored more than thirty publications in JCR and Scopus journals, attended about fifty national and international conferences, and participated in several international and national research projects, while collaborating with universities and research centres from Spain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Since 2017 she is lecturer at the Masters in Planning and management of natural risks by the University of Alicante (Spain).
MATTEO SANGIORGIO
Post Doc Research Fellow
MARCO TANGI
Post Doc Research Fellow
Marco Tangi is a post-doctoral researcher at the EI Lab. He received his MSc degree in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2018, and his Ph.D. in Information Technology in 2022 in the same institution. His main research interests are large-scale modelling of river sediment connectivity, the assessment of alterations on sediment transport caused by different anthropic and natural influences and the integration of such models in the planning and management of water resources systems.
GUANG YANG
Post Doc Research Fellow
Guang Yang is a post-doctoral researcher at the EI Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Hydrology and Water Resources from Wuhan University (China) in 2018 and was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Water Resources, China, after a visiting period at Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). His research focuses on multi-objective water resources operations, adaptive reservoir operations under climate change, and decision support systems based on statistical learning.
PHD Students
WENJIN HAO
Phd student
MICHELE MAURI
Phd student
Michele Mauri is a PhD student in Information Technology at the EI Lab. He received his MSc in Mathematical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2020. He is interested in climate-economics integrated assessment modelling and multi-objective optimization for climate policies and their application to the water-energy-food nexus.
Visiting PHD Students
CARLOTTA VALERIO
University of Trento
QUINGWEN LU
Hohai University
Qingwen Lu is a visiting PhD student at the EI lab. from. She received her bachelor and master degrees in College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University (China) and now is a PhD candidate in Hohai University. She is interested in water reservoir operation and risk analysis. Her research currently focuses on risk assessment and decision making for multi-reservoir floodwater conservation under uncertain forecasts.
CHENGXIN LUO
Dalian University of Technology
Chengxin Luo is a visiting Phd student at the EI Lab. She received her bachelor and master degrees in Hydropower and Water Resources Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China). And she is currently a PhD candidate in Dalian University of Technology (China). Her research interests focuses on decision-making for complex water systems under uncertainty and risk.
XIAOXING ZHANG
China Agricultural University
Xiaoxing Zhang is a visiting PhD student from the College of Water Resources & Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University. She received her MSc degree from Sichuan University. She is interested in water resource management under uncertainties. Now her research mainly focuses on optimal agricultural water resource allocation under multi-uncertainties in arid and semi-arid areas.
HAJER ATAALLAH
National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia
Hajer Ataallah is a visiting PhD student at the EI Lab. She graduated in hydraulic Engineering and she received her master degrees in geomatics applied to agriculture and the environment at the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia (INAT), and now is a PhD candidate in the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia. She is interested in water resource management and water reservoir operation. Her research focuses on multi-objective optimization for an integrated water resource management in semi-arid regions.
Master Students
Past theses of eiLab students are available HERE.