Education: PhD in Hydraulic Engineering for Environment and Territory at the University of Calabria. Master degree cum laude in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics), at the University of Calabria. Actual Position: Full Professor (Hydraulics) at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, Italy. Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, Italy. Prof. of Hydraulics and Fluvial Hydraulics (Bachelor and Master degree in Civil Engineering). Research activity: He co-authored about 150 publications, about Fluvial Hydraulics and Urban Drainage. Research interests: Floods; Sediment transport, erosion, deposition; Local scouring at structures (bed sills, bridge piers and abutments); Turbulence and water-sediments interactions; Small scale physical hydraulic models. Research projects: Coordinator or partner in many national and international research projects (funded by the Italian Ministry or by the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate General for Science, Research and Development), carried out in Italy or at the Hydraulics Laboratory of HR Wallingford Ltd., Oxfordshire, UK.