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Degree in Civil Engineering (110/110 cum laude) at the Univ. of Genova (1999), PhD in Hydraulic Eng. at Univ. of Padova (2003), Associate Prof. (2019 – present) of Hydraulics at the Univ. of Genova. Research Scientist at Shell (The Netherlands) in 2014 – 2017. Co-founder of WWS. His main research interests are related to river and estuarine morphodynamics, turbidity currents, dynamics of fluvial networks, sediment transport, river engineering, physical hydraulic modelling. He employs both theoretical and experimental approaches in his research. He has authored several peer reviews publications, he is member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD program in “Fluid dynamics and Environmental Processes in Engineering” at Univ. of Genova and has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface (2017 – 2021).

Carlos is the CEO and Technical Director of Geological Modelling at WWS. A marine geologist with over 35 years experience in academia and in industry, he spent most of his career investigating submarine fans and their deposits on modern and ancient continental margins, and through the synthetic deposits generated in flume tanks and numerical models, with applications to the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas and submarine geohazards.

Paolo Brotto has a master degree in Physics and PhD in Materials Sciences. After some years experience as a post-doc at the Genoa University collaborating with the Environmental Physics Group he turns his career to other targets, being a founding member and managing director of the spin-off companies PM_TEN and WWS. He is the CEO and CTO at PM_TEN and leads the research and development sector in air quality modelling, environmental monitoring at PM_TEN and green energies at WWS. Member of the Order of Chemists and Physicists and of the Italian Aerosol Society (IAS) he is the author of several scientific publications and communications in national and international scientific and institutional conferences.

Andrea Mazzino is full professor of Fluid Dynamics at the University of Genova with a PhD and Master degrees in Physics. After the post-docs at the Niels Bohr Institute of Copenhagen and at the Nice Observatory, France, he served as researcher at the ISAC Institute of the CNR until 2004 when he was appointed as researcher at the Genova University. He became associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2020. He is a founding member of the spin-off company PM_TEN. His skills are on numerical weather prediction models and their calibration via statistical methods with applications to the fields of renewable energy market and environmental risks. He is author of 167 Scopus-indexed published papers with a h-index of 40 (Google Scholar). He is member of the Research Committee of the University of Genova and member of review panels of several foreign research agencies.

Gaetano holds a M.Sc. (Hons) in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Processes from the University of Genoa. His research focuses on the study of environmental processes associated with the motion of water and sediment mixtures and their interactions with erodible granular surfaces. To this end, he has been using physical, theoretical and numerical modelling techniques, providing explanations for complex geomorphological phenomena and solutions for marine engineering problems. His long-standing interest in hydraulic engineering began during a M.Sc. internship at Deltares (The Netherlands) on the numerical modelling of sediment transport processes associated with tides. He is currently a Post-Doc Fellow at the University of Caen (France) working on the development of new numerical techniques for the study of wave-induced coastal processes.

Master Degree in Civil Engineering (110/110 cum laude) at the University of Genova (2003) and PhD in “Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences, Hydrodynamics and Environmental Modeling” at the University of Padova (2008), he focused his professional activities on the analysis of river morphodynamics and related hydraulic design and long-term evolution behavior. An engineer with 14 years experience in Academia and Industry, he’s a founding member of OAC Engineering and OAC Innovation Srl, both companies engaged in high-end multidisciplinary solutions for hydraulic, structural and geotechnical projects, design reviews and tender design. Member of the Order of Engineers, he is constantly engaged in collaboration, research and teaching in river hydraulic field at the University of Genoa. His major skills concern river morphodynamics, fluvial networks, sediment transport and numerical modeling.