My research is motivated by the curiosity in understanding and modelling the complex physical, and biological processes that sustain ecosystems and influence the water cycle. In fact, a better quantitative knowledge of these processes is needed for developing adaptation and mitigation responses to projected climatic changes in the local, regional, and global water cycles.

Part of my research focus on the development of a new spatially explicit hydrological model, called GEOtop (Rigon et al, 2006; Bertoldi et al. 2006). GEOtop has been one of the first hydrological models aiming at estimating in an integrated way the catchment water and energy budgets. The model is now maintained and further developed by and open-source project Geotop.

My interest is in building pre and post processing tools in different scripting languages.