Projects

MEDIATE

Full Name: Multi-hazard and risk-informed system for Enhanced local and regional Disaster risk management
Period: 10/2022 – 09/2025
Funding: Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-03 (IUSS €150,000)
Description:
MEDIATE aims to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) for disaster risk management by addressing multi-hazard and cascading impacts. The approach integrates resilience-informed and service-oriented methodologies, considering future changes in hazards (e.g., climate change), vulnerability/resilience (e.g., aging infrastructure and populations), and exposure (e.g., population decline/growth). The primary outcome will be a decision-support framework delivered as a web tool, enabling end-users (e.g., local authorities, businesses) to create accurate scenarios to model the potential impact of mitigation and adaptation risk management actions.

Flood Damage Assessment AdBPo

Full Name: Methodologies and applications for updating flood damage maps for the revision of the Flood Risk Management Plan (PGRA)
Period: 07/2020 – 12/2024
Funding: Po River District Basin Authority (€257,000 total; IUSS €23,000)
Description:
The main goal is to conduct an analytical evaluation of expected flood damage within a broader risk analysis and mapping framework. This supports updating the Flood Risk Directive and defining cost-benefit mitigation strategies within the PGRA. The project focuses on five macro-categories of potentially exposed elements, as identified by Legislative Decree 49/2010: population, infrastructure and strategic assets, economic activities, environmental and cultural assets, and facilities potentially causing incidental pollution during floods (Na-Tech events). For each category, specific models—where possible physically based—have been developed to assess flood event impacts.

NOCTUA

Full Name: Landscape Monitoring. For Everyone. From Space
Period: 02/2020 – 12/2022
Funding: Lombardy Region (IUSS €930,000)
Description:
NOCTUA is a pilot project for a commercial service that collects, processes, analyzes, and distributes monitoring data for Lombardy's territory. It covers urban areas, buildings, cultural heritage, infrastructure (e.g., hospitals, schools, bridges, dams), and land monitoring. Data is provided by a small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, demonstrating the capability to deploy a low-cost, high-resolution, commercially available space segment. The project consists of three segments:

NEWFRAME

Full Name: NEtWork-based Flood Risk Assessment and Management of Emergencies
Period: 04/2018 – 10/2020
Funding: Fondazione Cariplo (€150,000 total; IUSS €80,000)
Description:
The NEWFRAME project developed an innovative framework for assessing urban flash flood risk by considering connections between exposed elements. This methodology, which I developed during my PhD, improves the estimation of vulnerability and risk as a function of probability, vulnerability, and exposed value. The project was implemented in Monza, where results from the new method were compared to traditional approaches, which evaluate exposed value independently of interconnections. Hazard maps were created for synthetic events, followed by assessments of vulnerability, exposure, and risk using both traditional and innovative methods. The results were incorporated into the Risk Data Hub.

RIDES-IDRO

Full Name: Risk-Based Design of Hydraulic Works for Flood Risk Mitigation
Period: 03/2020 – 09/2022
Funding: Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea (IUSS €98,000)
Description:
The RIDES-IDRO project focused on defining a methodology for optimizing structural interventions to mitigate hydraulic risk and determining the appropriate level of protection through cost-benefit analysis.

PRO3

Full Name: Preventing and Managing Flood Events: A Technical and Legal Analysis of the Implementation of Hydrological Risk Control Regulations in Italy
Period: 01/2022 – 12/2023
Funding: DM n. 289/2021 - Triennial Programming (PRO3) under the joint program of the six Italian Special Statute Schools
Description:
The project aims to critically analyze the implementation of hydrological risk control regulations in Italy to promote effective investment strategies and reforms. It has two specific objectives: