CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Andrea Balzano
TITLE: Associate Professor of Hydraulic Engineering
BUSINESS ADDRESS: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale ed Architettura
Sezione di Idraulica
Università di Cagliari
(Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture,
Hydraulics Section
University of Cagliari)
Via Marengo, 2
09123 Cagliari
ITALY
DATE OF BIRTH: 1 february, 1961
NATIONALITY: Italian
HIGHER EDUCATION:
Graduation degree with honours, University of Cagliari (1985)
PhD Milan Polytechnic (1993)
CAREER SUMMARY:
2005 – present
Associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Hydraulics Section, University of Cagliari:
• Teacher - courses of Hydraulics, Maritime Hydraulics, Models of Maritime Hydrodynamics
1999 – 2004
Researcher, Department of Land Engineering, Hydraulics Section, University of Cagliari:
• Teacher - courses of Maritime Hydraulics, Littoral Processes and Protection, Hydraulics;
1996 – 1999
Researcher, Department of Land Engineering, Hydraulics Section, University of Cagliari:
• Lecturer - exercitation courses of Maritime Constructions and Fluid Mechanics.
1993 – 1996
Researcher, CRS4, Centre for Research, Development and Superior Studies, Cagliari – Environmental Modelling Group;
1993 – 1994
Consultant, coastal engineer
1991 – 1994
Lecturer - University of Cagliari
• exercitation course of Maritime Constructions
1990 – 1993
PhD student - Milan Polytechnic
1988 – 1989
Contract research assistant, Hydraulics Institute, University of Cagliari
1987 – 1989
Consultant, civil engineer
1986 – 1988
Voluntary research assistant, Hydraulics Institute, University of Cagliari.
1986 – 1987
Military service
1985
Graduation degree
RESEARCH
• Maritime Hydraulics
• Coastal vulnerability and morphodynamics;
REFEREEING
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:
ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
Environmental Modelling and Software
Ocean Modeling
Hydrological Processes
Journal of Coastal Research
NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
Swiss National Science Foundation
APPOINTMENTS IN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
Hydroinformatics 2002 – Fifth International Conference on Hydroinformatics – 1-5 July, Cardiff, UK

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