PILOTTI Marco

Position: Professor of Hydraulics at the University of Brescia (Italy), Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Land and Environment (DICATA).
Degree: In the year 1989 graduated cum laude in Civil Environmental Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan, where he also obtained in the year 1995 a 3 year-Research Doctorate in Hydraulic Engineering.
Teaching experience: He has taught Hydraulics at the University of Brescia since the Academic year 1998/1999, where he also taught Environmental Hydraulics during the Academic year 2004/05. During the Academic years from 2000 to 2003 he taught Fluid Mechanics at the Faculty of Physics of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia.Professional experience: After graduating, in the years from 1990 to 1992, he has been engaged in the modelling department of an international oil company where he has been involved in several numerical studies of poliphasic flow within porous media and in problems related to the thermodynamic characterization of reservoir fluids.
Research activity: He is author of about 50 scientific publications and, among them, he is first author of 12 publications on international journals with referee. His main field of research have been in the field of sediment transport and soil erosion, in the modelling of flow within porous media at the microscale, conducted by numerically reproducing the intergranular space geometry and by solving Navier Stokes equations within it. More recently he is investigating in the field of hydraulic dam safety and in the field of Shallow Water Equations, with particular attention to the problems of numerical propagation within steep and rugged mountain rivers.He is a reviewer of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering published by ASCEE. He is head of the Hydraulics and Hydrology Laboratory of the Università degli Studi di Brescia.