Roberto Gaudio was born in Cosenza, Italy, on 14 Jan. 1968 and is presently living in Cosenza, Via Riccardo Misasi, n. 101, C.A.P. 87100, Fiscal Code GDA RRT 68A14 D086U, tel. home +39-0984-26975, tel. Univ. +39-0984-496551, mobile +39-349-1957536, e-mail gaudio@unical.it.
Education
PhD in Hydraulic Engineering for Environment and Territory at the Univ. of Calabria (UniCal), 24 Jan. 2000. Master degree in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics), at UniCal, 25 Oct. 1995.
Prizes
Prize “Pinax d’Argento” 2007 of the Cultural Association Epizephyri Onlus in Locri (RC), for the particular merit of the paper: Gaudio R., De Bartolo S. G., Primavera L., Gabriele S., Veltri M., Lithologic Control on the Multifractal Spectrum of River Networks, Journal of Hydrology, 327, Issues 3-4, 20 August 2006, 365-375, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.11.025.
Master degree prize of the Bonino-Pulejo Foundation (Cosenza) for the Laurea thesis (1995).
Grant of the COMETT Appennino Meridionale (Consortium Univ.-Enterprises) for a stage at the Hydraulics Laboratory HR Wallingford Ltd (Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom) from 20 Apr. to 26 June 1995.
Gold medal Prize “Alfiere del Lavoro” by the President of the Italian Republic (Oct. 1986).
Work
Since 1st Nov. 2017: Full Professor (ICAR/01 – Hydraulics) at the Dept. Ingegneria Civile, UniCal.
30/12/2011-31/10/2017: Associate Professor (ICAR/01 – Hydraulics) at the Dept. Ingegneria Civile, UniCal.
03/01/2005-29/12/2011: Researcher (ICAR/01 – Hydraulics) at the Dept. Difesa del Suolo, UniCal.
02/04/2001-02/01/2005: Researcher (Hydraulics) at the National Research Council – Research Institute of Hydrogeological Protection (CNR-IRPI) in Rende (CS).
2002-2003: Prof. of Agriculture Hydraulics at the Univ. of Molise, Isernia, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences, Course of Study in Geological Sciences.
Academic activity (at UniCal)
Prof. of Hydraulics (Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering) and Fluvial Hydraulics (Master degree in Civil Engineering).
Since 1st Nov. 2018: Head of the Dept. of Ingegneria Civile (Civil Engineering).
Since 1st Nov. 2018: Member of the Academic Senate.
Past Vice-Coordinator of the Master degree in Civil Engineering.
Past Vice-Coordinator of the Doctorate in Civil and Industrial Engineering.
Member of the University of Calabria Committee of International Relationships.
Past Departmental Coordinator of the Lifelong Learning Project/Sub-programme Erasmus (Civil Engineering).
Scientific Responsible of the Lab. of Hydraulics “Grandi Modelli Idraulici” (“Large Scale Facilities”).
Bibliometric indicators
Scopus bibliometric indicators on 2nd March 2022:
– number of documents: 75;
– citations: 1460;
– h-index: 23.
Research activity
He co-authored more than 150 publications, about Fluvial Hydraulics, Urban Drainage, Hydrology.
Research interests:
– Turbulence;
– Local scouring at structures (bed sills, bridge piers and abutments);
– Sediment transport, erosion, deposition;
– Vegetated channels;
– Small scale physical hydraulic models;
– Floods;
– Climatic Trends.
Coordination and participation in research projects
1) Participation in research groups on scour at bed-sills funded by the EU at HR Wallingford Ltd in 1996 and 1997.
2) Group Leader of a research group on scour at bed-sills funded (£18,000) by the EU at HR Wallingford Ltd in 1998.
3) Participation in the RIVERS Project of the CNR-GNDCI in 1996-2204.
4) Participation in 2001 and leadership in 2002-2003 in the project “Pollution processes in rivers and surrounding zones: monitoring and mathematical modelling”, funded by the CNR-GNDRCIE (€ 65000).
5) Participation in the PRIN 2007 “Models and measures on the flow-sediment interaction at different spatial and temporal scales of physical interest (MOMICS)”, lead from the Univ. of Padua (€ 113·000,00).
6) Participation in the POR Calabria 2000-2006 (2009-2010) on “Hydraulic and erosive risk at singular points (bridges)” with IST-Lisbon and HR Wallingford Ltd (€ 147·000) and on “Fluvial sediment transport and interaction between it and longshore transport” with HR Wallingford Ltd (€ 250000).
7) Participation in the PON SILA (Integrated Laboratory System for the Environment) in 2011 (M€ 11).
8) Scientific Responsible of the POR Calabria Research Project “CFD modelling of flow fields and bed configurations at fluvial confluences (FluCs)” in 2013-2015.
9) Participation in the PON SIGIEC Integrated management system for coastal erosion in 2014-2017 (M€ 6.2).
10) Participation in the PON HABITAT Harbor Traffic Optimization System in 2015-2017 (M€ 0.5).
11) Participation in the PAC SG-ICT Serious Games at Increased Impact on Culture and Tourism in 2015-2017 (M€ 0.3).
12) Participation in the POR Calabria SMoRI Smart Monitoring for the control of high risk basins in 2017-2020 (M€ 0.4).
13) Scientific Coordinator of the project “Prevention of the flood risk in a Calabrian river basin with sediment transport (PreFluSed)” in 2018-2021 funded by the Italian Ministry of Environment (M€ 0.25).
14) Participation in the POR Calabria SILA 2.0 (Integrated Laboratory System for the Environment) in 2018-2021 (M€ 4).
Affiliations and reviewer activity
Member of the Italian Hydrotechnical Association, the Italian Group of Hydraulics and the International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research.
Since 5 June 2020, member of the Editorial Board (Section Board for “Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics”) of Water (MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, Basel, Switzerland).
Since September 2013 till August 2016, member of the Editorial Board of The Scientific World Journal (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, New York, USA).
Reviewer for the following scientific Journals: Journal of Hydrology e Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Hydraulic Research e International Journal of River Basin Management, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering and Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, International Journal of Sediment Research, Journal of Hydro-environment Research, Journal of Civil Engineering, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Water Management, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Sedimentology, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences, Civil Engineering Infrastructures Journal, Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research e European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Scientia Iranica, Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering, Acta Geophysica, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Water, Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids, Advances in Water Resources, Physics of Fluids, Journal of Mountain Science and Ocean Engineering.
2021: examiners for the PhD thesis “Modelling of Scour Hydrodynamics around a Pier” by Ainal Hoque Gazi (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India), supervisor ????.
2018: evaluator for the PhD theses “Experimental analysis of the turbulent flow structure in partially vegetated channels with complex morphology plant stands and rigid cylinders” by Gerado Caroppi (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”), supervisors Proff. Maurizio Giugni and Paola Gualtieri, and “Two-phase air-water flow analysis by means of advanced optical measurements techniques” by Fabio Di Nunno (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale), supervisors Proff. Giovanni de Marinis and Francesco Granata.
2017: examiners for the PhD theses: “Hydrodynamics of submerged turbulent plane offset jets” by Galla Gavi Kishore and “Wall-wake flows downstream of wall-mounted and near-wall horizontal cylinders” by Rajashree Lodh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India), supervisor Prof. Subhasish Dey.
2016: reviewer for a research project submitted at the Physical and Earth Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute.
2016: reviewer as “qualified expert” of a research project submitted at the Univ. of Padua.
Referee for the 2012 research projects of the Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige.
2011: qualified expert for the “Progetto Giovani”, Univ. of Padua.
2010: referee for the Newton International Fellowships (Royal Society, London, UK).
Other activities
Member of the Scientific Committees of many national congresses on Hydraulics.
He was a contractor professor of the International Summer and Winter Term “Hydrodynamics of riverbed erosion and scour at structures”, organised by prof. Dey of the Indian Institute of Technology di Kharagpur (West Bengal, India), giving lectures in the period 7-10 December 2015.
Chairman at the XXXII International School of Hydraulics, ISH 2012, 27-31 May 2012, ochow, Poland, organised by the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
He gave an invited lecture on “Flow-altering countermeasures against local scour at bridge piers” in the Course Erosões localizadas em pilares e encontros de pontes, organised by prof. Cardoso of the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon (Portugal), at the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal), 29 March 2012.
He gave a report on the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Calabria at the General Assembly 2010 of the Mediterranean Network of the Faculties of Engineering (RMEI), Salonicco (Greece), 15 April 2010.
Member of the Organising Committee of the UNESCO/IAHS/IWHA International Symposium The Basis of Civilisation – Water Science?, CNR, Rome, Italy, 3-6 Dec. 2003.
Chairman at the XVIII European Junior Scientist Workshop Sewer Processes and Networks, Almograve, Portugal, 8-11 November 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the First Italian-Russian Workshop New Trends in Hydrology, Rende (CS), Italy, 24-26 Sept. 2002, being also the Editor of the Proceedings.
