Stefano Barontini, degree in Civil Engineering (1999/2000) and PhD in Hydraulic Engineering (2005), is now associate professor at the University of Brescia (Italy). His research activity, both theoretical, experimental and numerical, is mainly focused on soil hydrology, rainfall/runoff processes and flood forecast in mountain basins of different scales, water balance in climate change scenarios, history of hydrology and traditional irrigation tecniques. He is co-author of more than 200 scientific publications (23 of which indexed in Scopus database, 27 in Web of knowledge database, verified 11/22/2022).