Professor Alessandro Stocchino is an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. He graduated in 1998 from the University of Genova (Italy) in Environmental Engineering. In 2001 He obtained a Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Padova (Italy) after having spent two years at the Florida State University as a visiting researcher. Soon after the end of the Ph.D., he obtained an appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Genova, then as Associate Professor in 2015. His background is primarily in applied fluid mechanics, turbulence, and mass transport. Environmental topics related to sediment transport, circulation modeling, and marine and river pollution are his main research interests.