Chiara Calligaris is a researcher in Engineering Geology at University of Trieste in the Department of Mathematics and Geosciences. She graduated in Geological Sciences with a thesis having as title: Slope stability analysis in the right side of Bombaso River. In 2005, she took her Ph.D. in Geomatics and GIS at the University of Trieste with a thesis having as title: Multicriterial analysis to elaborate a geostatical vulnerability map for the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (NE Italy). Since the graduation, she worked as collaborator with the Geological Survey of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italy) and at University publishing more than 60 among ISI and NON-ISI papers. She has been responsible for several national and international projects in the field of hydrogeology, geomorphology and engineering geology. She taught at the University of Trieste since 2005 at the courses of Engineering geology and Hydrogeology. Actually she is the responsible of the course named Hydrogeological risk.