Padua, Veneto, Italy
I am an environmental engineer of the University of Padua. I graduated with a dissertation carried out partly in Italy, at the Soil Protection Direction of Veneto Region, partly in France, at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, on the planning and management of landslide risk, comparing the Italian and French civil protection. Later I continued my studies, thanks to a scholarship at the Department of Geology of the University of Padua, studying hazard map and dynamics of debris flows. Later I worked for almost 3 years in an Engineering Office in Padua, for the design of ski slopes and lifts. Then I decided to resume my studies with a Ph.D. on the snow avalanches at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua. I have carried out the experimental part of my thesis, partly in the laboratory of the University of Trento, for the study of snow avalanches passive defence (cone-shaped and tooth-shaped structures), and partly in the laboratory of Cemagref of Grenoble in France, for the study of dry granular avalanche deposits. Thanks to a research fellowship of the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua, I then participated at a research project on snow and avalanche statistical data analysis of different sites in the Trentino Region for the definition of hazard map. For a few years I worked in two private training centres as a tutor for undergraduates and in an Italian company, for the design of segmental retaining walls for slope stability, in collaboration with a Canadian company.