EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Degree in Civil Engineering (110/110 summa cum laude), University of Catania, 1998.

PhD in Hydraulic Engineering, Consortium of the Universities of Catania, Cosenza, Reggio Calabria, and Palermo, 2002.

National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor (2018).

ACADEMIC CAREER

1998–2001 PhD in Hydraulic Engineering.

2002–2014 Researcher, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Messina.

2014–2022 Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Messina.

2022–present Full Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Messina.

SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Scientific Director of the Hydraulics Laboratory, University of Messina, 2009–present.

Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Program in Civil Engineering, 2018–2024.

Member of the Technical–Scientific Committee of the River Basin Authority of the Sicily Hydrographic District – Presidency of the Sicilian Regional Government, 2018–present.

External Expert Member of the Technical–Administrative Committee of the Interregional Public Works Authority for Sicily and Calabria, 2016–present.

Lecturer in Hydraulics and Coastal Engineering at the University of Messina, 2002–present.

Member of the Board of the PhD Program in Civil, Environmental and Safety Engineering (Universities of Messina and Reggio Calabria), 2013–2021.

Member of the Board of the PhD Program in Engineering, 2021–present.

VISITING RESEARCHER

Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa, 2000.

Department of Hydrodynamics and Water Resources, Technical University of Denmark, 2000.

Danish Hydraulic Institute, Hørsholm, 2018.

IBW Poland, Gdańsk, 2025.

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Local coordinator or member of several research units in national projects (PRA, POR, PRIN, POR-FESR, Research & Mobility).

Scientific Coordinator of the European project EU TA HY+ WINGS (2018). Member of the European projects EU TA HY+ HYBRID (2017) and Italy–Israel EPAF (2018–2019).

Principal Investigator of the PRIN2022 project PLATONE (2024–2026).

Local coordinator for UniME of the BAC RAISE Passport project (2025).

Local coordinator for UniME of the INTERREG Italy–Malta 2020–2027 MAESTRI project.

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE TO THE TERRITORY

Consulting and service activities are documented by numerous agreements for which she served as Scientific Director, as well as by consultancy work carried out for various public and private institutions. These activities also include several court-appointed technical consultancies conducted on behalf of the Court of Messina and the Public Prosecutors’ Offices of Syracuse, Messina, and Reggio Calabria.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Scientific interests mainly concern maritime hydraulics and coastal engineering, with particular reference to seabed hydro-morphodynamics under sea waves, wave–current interaction, the effects of wave motion on coastal structures, and the potential for wave energy extraction. Research has also addressed the development of innovative instruments for measuring shear stresses in marine environments and the use of neural networks for wave prediction. More recently, research has focused on the transport of plastics and microplastics in coastal environments and on the propagation of oil spills in harbor basins.