Theses
Current proposals
- T1 - Multi-sector multi-actor adaptation to climate change in the Adda River basin
- T2 - Correction of ERA5 Snow data using a U-NET-based framework and SNOW-IT reanalysis
- T3 - Water storage expansion for adapting to projected drought events
- T4 - Exploring Dam-Induced Impacts on River Biodiversity across Basin and Continental Scales
- T5 - Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics of sediment transport in the Zambezi River Basin
- T6 - Can Generative Artificial Intelligence be used to synthesise images of the rarest tropical cyclones?
- T7 - Bias Correction and Spatial Adjustment of Global Extreme Rainfall Events in Reanalysis Data Using Deep Learning
- T8 - Modeling the impacts of drought events on the European energy sector
- T9 - Machine Learning for advancing the detection of drought events
- T10 - Improving energy system modelling in the African continent under different climate policy scenarios
- T11 - Advancing water systems control by leveraging multiple forecasts and policy classes via deep Reinforcement Learning
- T12 - Advancing Water Systems Management: Bias Correction and Synthetic Forecast Generation
- T13 - Integrating local perceptions through climate index projections into Agent-Based Models for climate-resilient agricultural adaptation
- T14 - Modelling Farmer Adaptation to Changing Flood Risk
The slides introducing the research projects and the theses’ proposals that were shown during the meeting on 27/02/2024 are available HERE.
Past Theses
- Francesco Bressi: Satellite-based Reconstruction of Water Reservoir Dynamics in the Zambezi Watercourse
- Carola Calisi: Assessing the impacts of tempera- ture extremes on crop production in the Adda River basin
- Lisa Ferrari: Social learning and behavior modeling on climate change in Northern Italy
- Bruno Invernizzi: Enhancing Mekong River Basin reservoir operations: Balancing Hydropower Production and Sediment Transport
- Lorenzo Scarpellini: Parametric insurance for hydropower: comparing alternative schemes and forecast conditioned policies
- Giorgia Sica: Enhancing droughts resilience via expansion of water storage infrastructures
- Irene Galbiati: Multi-objective Robust Decision Making to discover future vulnerabilities of the Júcar river basin under climate change
- Martina Merlo: A pan-European analysis of drought events and impacts
- Emma Krampe: Advancing the operation of a multi-reservoir system using global hydrological forecast products
- Dennis Zanutto: Multi-timescale forecast-based direct policy search for water system control
- Veronica Piuri: Integrating desalination and aquaponics in the Nile River Basin
- Nicola Crippa: Assessing the value of seasonal forecasts in informing reservoir operations in the water-stressed Mediterranean basins
- Federico Sala: Strategic dam planning in the Mekong River Basin accounting for GHGs emissions and river sediment connectivity
- Mattia Zeno: Detection of Arctic rivers streamflow drivers through automatic feature selection
- Giulio Palcic: Discovering data augmentation best practices for tropical cyclone intensity estimation with deep learning
- Simone Grosso: Power capacity expansion in the Southern African Power Pool: Synergies between hydropower and floating solar development
- Kushagra Pandey: Advancing the generation of socio-economic scenarios in bottom-up vulnerability assessments
- Luca Ferrari: Drivers of uncertainty, high-risk scenarios, and robust climate policies in RICE50+
- Paolo Colombo: Analysis of the influence of a dense network of small reservoirs on drought evolution
- Thomas Manzoni: Bayesian hierarchical forecasts reconciliation to inform water system control
- Silvia Colombo: From efficiency to equity, assessing fairness in planning river basins development
- Francesca Robba: Assessing the potential of seasonal drought forecasts for triggering drought management strategies
- Davide Cananzi: Improving drought monitoring via machine learning: A new impact-based drought index
- Luca Rampon: Integrating aquaponics technologies in strategic river basin management
- Silvia Bossi: Strategic dam planning accounting for GreenHouse Gases emissions and river sediment connectivity
- Fabio Gardella: The effects of climate and technology variation on the hybrid energy system design for small Mediterranean islands
- Ilaria Chiricò: Robust design of dam heightening under climate change: a case study in the Swiss Alps
- Marco Orbetelli: A data-driven approach to streamflow reconstruction using dendrochronological data
- Giacomo Piraccini: Dam reoperation for controlling water-related diseases: the potential for floating solar to compensate hydropower losses
- Francesco Semeria: Modelling the impact of dams on flood-recession agriculture in the Omo valley: a satellite-data based analysis
- Alessandro Barbieri & Martina Daddi: Integrating hydrological constraints for hydropower in energy models:The case study of the Zambezi River Basin in the Southern African Power Pool
- Luca Sasso: Re-designing reservoir capacity in snow dominated catchments to adapt to changing climate
- Yousra Saudi: Assessing the value of hydroclimatic services for hydropower megadams
- Giacomo Trombetta: From individualism to full cooperation: optimal operation of the Nile River basin reservoirs under varying levels of cooperation
- Henrique Moreno Dumont Goulart: Assessing the operational value of forecast information under climate change
- Maria Giulia Pelosi & Luca Monaco: Improved energy-water modelling for hydropower capacity expansion planning under climate change: a case study in the Zambezi River Basin
- Vanessa Tesini: Integrated infrastructural and financial options to manage weather risk in a multipurpose regulated lake
- Stefano Gallandra & Marco Sorrenti: Multi-objective optimal design of dam filling strategies: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
- Giorgio Falcini & Elena Muratore: The effects of climate and socio-economic changes on the design of off-grid hybrid energy systems
- Sara Cazzaniga: How does uncertainty affect cooperation strategies in transboundary water resources systems? A case study on the Zambezi River Basin
- Lucia Maletti: Evaluating the effects of land use change and hydropower development on sediment connectivity. The case study of the Omo river
- Agostino Ghetti: Development of a high-resolution water consumption dataset with end-use diaries
- Carlo Alberto Bordignon: Forecasting hourly energy price in the Swiss market. Model identification and application for accurate short-term forecasts
- Riccardo Badagliacca & Linda Spinelli: Designing robust and sustainable development pathways in the Omo-Turkana basin
- Lorenzo Caviglioni: Designing efficient reservoir filling strategies using seasonal drought forecasts
- Giacomo Luoni: Modeling river fragmentation at pan-European scale
- Barbara Benigni & Sebastian Raimondo: Robust planning of agricultural expansion in Zambezi river basin under climate and socio-economic changes
- Angelo Carlino: Hydro-energy systems modeling in the Zambezi river basin: exploring benefits from soft model integration
- Alessandro Gentile: Informing water reservoir operations with climate teleconnections
- Luca Gianelli & Paolo Redo Bianchi: Water-related disease control via dam operation: balancing hydropower production and malaria spreading on Kariba reservoir
- Valeria Penso: Discovering large-scale climate signals for seasonal meteorological forecasts in Africa
- Marco Tangi: Balancing sediment starvation and hydropower production. The case study of the Vjosa river
- Rachele Tarantola: The value of weather/streamflow forecasts for hydropower companies
- Elena Fornari: Data-driven emulation modeling of an agricultural model to simulate crop productivity
- Giulia Marchetti: Overall grain size mapping from Sentinel 2 images
- Mattia Lanzani & Antonio Pecoraro: Balancing hydropower producing and fluvial connectivity in optimal large scale dam siting on the Mekong river
- Martina Morlacchi: Unsupervised automatic detection of post meter leakage in residential settings
- Sofia Rossi: A vulnerability analysis of the Red River basin, Vietnam, under co-varying climate and socio-economic changes
- Chiara Samale: Improving seasonal forecast of hydroclimatic variables through the state of large-scale climate signals
- Marika Squeri: Assessing the skill of seasonal meteorological forecast products for predicting droughts and water scarcity in highly regulated basins
- Marta Zaniolo: Design and application of drought indexes in highly regulated Mediterranean water systems
- Marta Andreoni: Pooling drought and flood related financial risk to manage conflict in multi-purpose Lake Maggiore water system
- Jose Ramos: Agent-based modeling of innovation diffusion in agricultural systems
- Giulio Camisani: Regional modelling of sediment connectivity in gravel-bed river networks. Modelling framework and application to the upper Po basin
- Sui Xin: Index based analysis of climate change scenarios. Lake Como catchment case study
- Federica Bertoni: Exploring the water-energy nexus in the Iberian Peninsula under climate change: a deterministic optimization approach
- Ahmad Alsahaf: Projection- vs. Selection-based Model Reduction For Emulation Modeling in Water Resources Planning and Management Problems
- Ylenia Casali: Using Canonical Correlation Analysis and Input Variable Selection to assess the effect of Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies on the Red River Basin, Vietnam
- Slaven Conevski: Quantifying climate change- and human behavior-related uncertainties in agricultural water management
- Alessia Goffi: Changes in the hydrological regime of the Red River Basin, Vietnam: the role of deforestation
- Beatrice Sangalli: Hydro-economic analysis of the adaptation to climate change in the Jucar river system
- Carolina Mesa & Carolina Trimino: ENSO detection for improving long-term streamflow forecasts in Kemano water system
- H.V. Pham: Using ENSO information to improve the operation of the Hoa Binh reservoir, Vietnam
- Martina Botter: Assessing the impact of climate change and price variability on alpine hydropower. A case study in the Swiss Alps
- Federico Giudici: Advancing reservoir operation description in physically based hydrological models
- Laura Bellagamba: Designing and assessing weather-based financial hedging contracts to mitigate water conflicts at the river basin scale
- Andrea Moro & Luca Riva: Inferring and clustering residential water consumers’ routines by eigenbehavior modeling
- Umberto Del Gobbo: Snow water equivalent retrieval using multitemporal SAR images to inform water systems operation
- Maria Faragò: Forcing hydrological models with precipitation estimates from in-situ stations, remote sensing and weather models
- Emanuele Gaiardelli: Development of a flexible synthetic generator of residential water consumption traces at the end-use level
- Pardis Biglarbeigi: Many-objective Direct Policy Search in Dez and Karoun Multireservoir System, Iran
- Alessandro Amaranto: Balancing fertilizer application and nitrate leaching in agricultural management: a multiobjective analysis
- Luca Preatoni: The role of snow information in improving water management: the lake Como case study
- Stefano Dellacorna: Coupling quality and quantity targets in the operation of a hydropower reservoir: a preliminary analysis
- Pietro Richelli: Effects of climate change on hydrology and hydropower systems in the Italian Alps
- Cristian Brivio: Modelli di regolazione dei serbatoi idroelettrici alpini e impatto delle energie rinnovabili sulla gestione
- Simona Denaro: Balancing hydropower production and river bed incision in operating a run-of-river hydropower scheme along the river Po
- Ludovica Beltrame & Daniele Carbonin: ENSO teleconnection patterns on large scale water resources systems
- Andrea Cominola & Emanuele Mason: A framework to test multiple optimality principles in landscape evolution under river dynamics
- Federica Remondi: Remote sensing of Tanzania wetlands: hydrology and model calibration
- Daniele Spartà: Impact of deforestation on local precipitation patterns over the Da River basin, Vietnam
- Andrea Ficchì: A centralized real time controller for reservoirs management on the Seine river using ensemble weather forecasting
- Ralitsa Vassileva: Assessing dynamic emulation modelling of large environmental data
- Matteo Mainardi: Coupling pre-season farmers planning and optimal water supply management to mitigate climate change impacts
- Lorenzo Cozzi: Weather models as virtual sensors to data driven rainfall predictions in urban watersheds
- Federica Andressi: An Hybrid Empiric-conceptual Model for the Integrated Management of Kafue River (Zambia)
- Stefania Caietti: Improved dynamic emulation modelling by time series clustering: the case study of Marina Reservoir, Singapore
- Yu Li & Bui Thi Hieu: Comprehensive analysis of hydrological model with remote sensed satellites data in the Da river basin, Vietnam