Prof. Dr. Alessandro Gargini has been a full professor of Applied Geology at the University of Bologna since 2011. His main field of research is applied hydrogeology and contaminant hydrogeology. The main targets of research are the characterization, risk assessment, and modelling of contaminated aquifers, the evaluation of anthropic impacts on groundwater resources and groundwater dependent ecosystems and hydrogeological parameterization, and the modelling of groundwater flow systems in fractured aquifer of Northern Apennines. He is involved in many EU-funded and national research projects and also in third-mission activities related to industrial research development and scientific support to forensic investigations on environmental crimes. Since 2012, he has become a member of the National Italian Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists.