Dr Emanuele Barca (m) has been a permanent position researcher since 2011 (researcher at Italian National Research Council—Water Research Institute). He has a university degree in computer science from Bari University and is specialized in mathematical modelling. His scientific production includes coauthorships of more than 40 ISI peer-reviewed papers and contributions to international journals with peer review and congresses. His scientific areas of interest include soil hydrology, groundwater quantity and quality assessment, optimization of sampling schemes and monitoring networks, geostatistics, and machine learning. His most significant publications are listed below.