Francesca De Serio

CEAR-01/A

2021 June: Passed the Italian National Academic Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor in the Academic Discipline 08/A1 ‘Hydraulics, Hydrology, Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions’
2017: Passed the Italian National Academic Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor in the Academic Discipline 08/A1 ‘Hydraulics, Hydrology, Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions’
2001: PhD, Hydraulic Engineering for Land and Environment, University of Calabria (Italy)
1996: MS, Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy)

POSITIONS:
June 2021: Associate Professor in Hydraulics at Poliba
2018-2021: Senior Researcher (RTD B) at Poliba
2001-2018: Research Associate at DICATECh-Poliba

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
Interested in Environmental and Maritime Hydraulics: mechanics of waves and sea currents; turbulence at breaking; erosion phenomena; diffusion/dispersion mechanisms and spreading of pollutants; vegetated flows; buoyant and non-buoyant jets released in flows.
Involved in both experimental and numerical modelling. My laboratory activity includes the use of innovative measuring instruments/techniques, such as LDA, ADV, ADCP and PIV.

- Investigator in 14 agreements of the Polytechnic of Bari with public/private institutions, 4 international projects and more than 15 national projects
- Principal Investigator of the international research project ‘JEts interacting with VEgetation in Rotating Basin (18JEVERB)’, selected after peer review in the European Programm H2020 Hydralab+ Adaptation for Climate Change. Project activity carried out at the LEGI, Coriolis Rotating Platform – CNRS, Grenoble (FR), 8-9/2018.
- Author of more than 90 papers (including 40 journal papers and 21 conference papers indexed in Scopus database); current H index: 19

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
- Associate Editor of ‘Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science’ (Elsevier) 2016-present
- Editorial Board Member of ‘Journal of Marine Science and Engineering’ (MDPI) 2017-present
- Reviewer for: Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research (Taylor & Francis Publisher); Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (Elsevier Publisher); Journal of Hydraulic Research (IAHR Publisher); Journal of Coastal Research (CERF Publisher); Environmental Fluid Mechanics (Springer Publisher); Water (MDPI); Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (MDPI); Hydrological Sciences Journal (Taylor & Francis Publisher); Water Resources Research (AGU); Scientific Reports (Springer Nature)

TEACHING ACTIVITY
In charge of:
- 2022-23: Master Degree course 'Maritime Hydraulics'; Bachelor Degree course 'Environmental Hydraulics';
- 2021-22: Master Degree course 'Maritime Hydraulics'; Bachelor Degree course 'Hydraulics for Building' and 'Environmental Hydraulics';
- 2020: Bachelor Degree course 'Hydraulics'
- 2016-2019 Master degree course 'Maritime Hydraulics'
- Postgraduated course of 'Lab and Field Data Acquisition and Processing in Hydraulics' (2013-2018) in the Doctoral School of the Poliba

ACADEMIC TASKS
- Coordinator for the International Mobility of the DICATECh (October 2019 - present)
- Member of the Review Group of the Master’s Degree Course in Environmental and Land Engineering at the DICATECh (2018-2019 and 2021-22)
- Co-tutor of more than 20 master students
- Co-supervisor of 2 traineeship students (GII placement In Water Engineering 2015, 2017), in cooperation with Università Politecnica delle Marche and Università di Padova
- Co-tutor of 1 PhD student.

- Visiting researcher at: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 5/2018; Hamburg Universitat 7/2019; LEGI Grenoble 8/2018
- Member of: European Geophysical Union (EGU), International Associaton for Hydraulic Research (IAHR), CoNISMa (National Interuniversity Consortium for MArine Sciences)

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