Guido Ardizzon (male), Full Professor of Fluid Machines and Energy Systems at the Department of Industrial Engineering of UNIPD. In the period 1998-2002 he was member of the U.N.I. Technical Commission for Pumps and Small Hydraulic Turbines. He carried out research activities with several pump and hydraulic turbine manufacturers. From 2009 to 2011 he was Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova. He is author of more than 110 publications in the hydraulic machine field, the most part of which published in International Journals and in Proceedings of International Conferences.