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Luca Alberti

Associate Professor

Luca Alberti is an Associate Professor at the Civil and Environmental Department (DICA) of the Politecnico di Milano. He received his PhD in Applied Geology from the University of Ferrara. He has been researching in hydrogeology, groundwater and contaminant transport modeling, contaminated sites remediation, contaminants fingerprinting, water resources management.

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Pietro Mazzon

PhD student

Pietro Mazzon is a PhD student in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering at the Civil and Environmental Department (DICA) of the Politecnico di Milano. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and spent a 1-year exchange period in Sweden, at the Luleå Tekniska Universitet. His research interests are in groundwater modeling, in the areas of reactive transport and isotope fractionation modeling applied to bioremediation, regional flow modeling, vertical recharge estimation and uncertainty analysis. Since 2021, he is a Teaching Assistant of the Groundwater and River Applied Modelling master degree course in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering. He is member of the IAH Italian Chapter and member of the ECHN Italy task team.

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Paolo Colombo

PhD student

Paolo Colombo is a PhD student at the Hydrogeo Modeling research group of the Civil and Environmental Department (DICA) at Politecnico di Milano. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He developed his Master’s thesis at Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands), focusing on human impacts on hydrological droughts. In 2021 he spent a period with the hydroinformatics team at KWR – Water Research Institute (The Netherlands), where he developed a deep learning model to forecast surface and groundwater levels. His main research interests are water resource management and exploring climate change impacts and solutions on surface and groundwater. He is a member of the Scientic Committee of UNESCO’s Groundwater Youth Network (GWYN).

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Erica Oldani

PhD student

Erica Oldani is a Ph.D. candidate at Politecnico di Milano, working with the Hydrogeo Modeling research group at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA) and Isotope Tracer Technologies Europe srl. Her research focuses on environmental forensic applications of isotopic probing techniques such as Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA), and the use of reactive transport modeling tools to trace the sources and fate of contaminants in groundwater and to monitor the performance of bioremediation activities. Erica holds a Bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Environmental Sciences and Technologies from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy (2018), and a Master’s degree (MSc) in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Bayreuth, Germany (2021). Before joining the Hydrogeo Modeling team, she gained international work experience as a research assistant in Zurich, Switzerland (2021-2022) and as a trainee at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Geel, Belgium (2023).

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Matteo Antelmi

Researcher (RTDA)

Matteo Antelmi is an Environmental and Land Planning Engineer and his research topic is the numerical modeling of Ground Source (or Groundwater) Heat Pump systems. He received the Bachelor and Master degrees in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Since 2011, as researcher, he has been collaborating with Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (Politecnico di Milano) concerning low temperature geothermal systems (in order to improve the energy efficiency of HVAC systems) and flow and transport numerical modeling projects for the evaluation of different groundwater contamination impacts. Currently he is a researcher at Politecnico di Milano (Civil and Environmental Department). At the same time, he is a contract professor of Geothermal Energy (master degree course at the Scienze della Terra department of the Università degli Studi di Milano) and assistant for Groundwater and River Applied Modelling and Geomorphology courses (master degree courses at the Politecnico di Milano).

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Sara Barbieri

Research assistant

Sara Barbieri received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Since joining the Geosciences team at Politecnico di Milano as Research Assistant in late 2020, her research focused on both shallow geothermal energy management and modeling and groundwater management projects. One of the latest is the collaboration with Regione Lombardia and Arpa Lombardia for the analysis of the quantitative and qualitative status of groundwater for the development of the regional water use protection plan (PTUA 2022). She collaborated in the teaching activities of the course “Geothermal Energy” at Università degli Studi di Milano in 2021. In 2021 she took the professional state exam for Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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