Prof. Pietro Teatini is an associate professor of hydrology and hydraulic engineering at the University of Padova, Italy. He received his MSc in hydraulic civil engineering with honors in 1991 at the University of Padova, Italy. In 1994, he received the international award “Paolo Gatto”, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for the modeling of the aquifer system underlying the Venice Lagoon. He is vice-chair of the IAHS/UNESCO-IHP “Land Subsidence International Initiative—LaSII” and a member of the Steering Team “Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts” UNESCO—World Climate Research Programme. His research interests concern modeling geomechanical issues related to fluid withdrawal/injection from/into the subsurface. He also works on modeling land subsidence due to peat oxidation and natural consolidation, which are typical processes on natural coastlands (deltas and wetlands). He has carried out several studies on aquifer management and land subsidence-related issues in different parts of the world (Italy, Mexico, China, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Iraq, Vietnam, and Sierra Leone).