FERNANDO NARDI
Assistant professor at the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy) in affiliation with the Unesco Chair in Water Resources Management and Culture and the WAter Resources REsearch DOocumentation Centre (WARREDOC) and the Department of Language Sciences (DSL)
Before:
Research associate at the Honors Center of Italian Universities (H2CU) (2008-2011)
Adjunct professor at Tuscia University of Viterbo (2007-2009) within the international joint program ESLUA (Visit my faculty web page here)
2006-2008 Research associate at the Department of Hydraulics, Transportation and Streets of University of Rome La Sapienza (2006-present)
EDUCATION
PhD in 2006 from University of Rome La Sapienza in Land Surface Hydrology – Terrain analysis and GIS programming for flood inundation mapping
Visiting researcher at the Rafael Bras Hydrology Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (MA, USA) from 2004 to 2005
Civil Hydraulic Engineering Graduate degree (Laurea) – University of Rome La Sapienza (2001)
Visiting student at the Department of Earth Science and Environmental Engineering of Columbia University (New York City, NY) for the developing of graduate thesis: Application of the Spatially Distributed Storm-event Hydrological Model C.A.H.R.M.A. based on a GIS. Research included a 6 months experience in the GIS group of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Valhalla, NY under the supervision of Prof. Y. Gorokhovich
TEACHING
Tuscia University of Viterbo (Viterbo, Italy) [2007-present] Lecturer for the Hydrology class (6 credits) within the international Joint program Environmental Science for Large Urban Areas (ESLUA) between Tuscia University of Viterbo and Pace University (New York, USA).
Polytechnic University (New York City, USA) [Summer 2008] Instructor for the GIS summer class – GIS Terrain Analysis for Hydro-geomorphic applications – in collaboration with Nebraska University (NM, USA) and Tuscia University of Viterbo
Columbia University (New York City, USA) [Summer 2007] Instructor for the GIS summer class – GIS Terrain Analysis for Hydro-geomorphic applications – in collaboration with New Mexico Institute of technology (NM, USA) and Tuscia University of Viterbo
CNR-MIT Summer School [2006] Teaching assistant for the CNR – MIT Summer School on Landscape form and processes: models and applications in watershed analysis.
CNR-MIT Summer School [2004] Teaching assistant for the CNR – MIT Distributed Hydrologic Modelling using Geospatial Data and Tools.
University of Rome La Sapienza [2001 – 2003] Lecturer of the labs for the class Hydraulic Structures (original definition: Impianti speciali idraulici). Duties: helping students with theoretical and technical support for developing the labs. Topics covered: dikes and pipelines designing problems.
Columbia University, New York City, NY [Fall 2000] Teaching assistant, providing technical support to students of the class: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology for Visualization and Analysis of Environmental Data, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering.
AFFILIATIONS
Professional Engineer, registered to the Association of Italian Engineers (Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Roma) n° 22524 since 2002
Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2002
Member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) since 2004
Member of the Honor Center of Italian Universities (H2CU) since 2006
Associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since 2008
Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) since 2009