PERSONAL DATA
Prof. Ing. Salvatore Manfreda
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale (DICEA), Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Claudio, 21, 80125 Napoli.
Contatti: salvatore.manfreda@unina.it (e-mail).
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY
He graduated with honors in Civil Engineering, specializing in Hydraulic Engineering, from the University of Basilicata (UniBas) in 2001. In 2004, he earned his Ph.D. in Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring from a program run by a consortium composed of the University of Basilicata, Rome La Sapientia University, University of Genoa, University of L’Aquila, and University of Florence. From 2004 to 2005, he worked as a research associate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. He held the position of research fellow from 2006 to 2008, researcher from 2008 to 2014, and then became an Associate Professor of Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions and Hydrology (ICAR/02) from 2014 to 2019 at UniBas. He is currently Full Professor of Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions and Hydrology (ICAR/02) at the University of Naples Federico II.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Throughout his career, he has been actively engaged in teaching across various academic programs. His expertise extends to the fields of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture. Notably, he has offered instruction in the following courses:
- Hydrology
- Advanced Hydrological Monitoring
- Hydraulic Constructions
- Flood Risk Protection and Land Reclamations
- Water Resources Management
- Engineering Methods for Irrigation
- Hydrology and Hydraulic Constructions
- Ecohydrology
Presently, he holds the position of lecturer for the Flood Risk Protection and Land Reclamations, Hydraulic Construction and Advanced Hydrological Monitoring courses within the framework of the Federico II Polytechnic School. Beyond his local teaching commitments, he has also made significant contributions to international education initiatives. His teaching engagements have taken place at esteemed university institutions and research centers, both within Italy and abroad.
LECTURES IN INTERNATIONAL COURSES
[2008-10] “Water Management”, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies al Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), Creta.
[2008-09] “Regional water balance: investigation, surface water hydrology and groundwater hydraulics and management”, MAIB (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari), Bari.
[2010] Summer school Advances in Ecohydrology, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo.
[2011] “Mini-Hydro”, Project ENER-SUPPLY ENergy Efficiency and Renewables-SUPporting Policies in Local level for EnergY, South east Europe – Transnational Cooperative Programme, Comune di Potenza.
[2011] Summer School on Monitoring and Modeling Surface Hydrological Processes, Parco Appennino Lucano, Marsico.
[2013] Summer School on Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Modeling: Hydrological and Hydraulic Risk, UniBas, Matera.
[2014] Summer School on Modeling Spatial/Temporal Heterogeneity in Ecohydrological Systems, UniBas, Matera.
[2015] Summer School on Applied Course on UAVs for Environmental Monitoring, UniBas, Matera.
[2016] Summer School on UASs for environmental monitoring, UniBas, Matera.
[2018] Summer School on Harmonized UAS techniques: Introduction to data acquisition and preprocessing, University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
[2019] International Winter School on Hydrology: Data Rich Hydrology, University for Foreigners of Perugia, Perugia.
[2021] MedSchool on the Green Deal, University of Naples, Naples.
[2022] MedSchool entitled “FROM SUSTAINABLE TO REGENERATIVE AND RESILIENT DESIGN”, University of Naples, Naples.
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
[2008 up to date] Editorial Board di Ecohydrology (Wiley).
[2013 up to date ] Editorial Board di Hydrology (MPDI).
[2020 up to date] Editorial Board di Plants sezione Plant–Soil Interactions (MPDI).
[2020 up to date] Editorial Board di Frontiers in Remote Sensing – Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs and UAVs)
[2021 up to date] Editorial Board di DRONES (MPDI).
[2007] Guest Editor per lo special issue “Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological hydrological processes”, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS).
[2010] Guest Editor per lo special issue “Coupled ecological–hydrological processes”, Ecohydrology (Wiley).
[2017] Guest Editor per lo special issue “Advances in Large Scale Flood Monitoring and Detection”, Hydrology (MDPI).
[2017] Guest Editor per lo special issue “Impact of Climate on Hydrological Extremes”, Water (MDPI).
[2019] Guest Editor per lo special issue “Progress on the Use of UAS Techniques for Environmental Monitoring”, Remote Sensing (MDPI).
[2019] Guest Editor per lo special issue “Hydrological and Environmental Modeling: From Observations to Predictions”, Water (MDPI).
[2019 up to date] Reviewer for the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).
[2015 up to date] Reviewer for the European Commission – for Horizon 2020 and HORIZON EU programs.
Selection of Publications
Manfreda, The space-time representation of extraordinary rainfall events, Ecohydrology (doi: 10.1002/eco.2742), 2024. [pdf]
Manfreda et al., Advancing river monitoring using image-based techniques: challenges and opportunities, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2024. [pdf]
Avino et al., Are rainfall extremes intensifying in Southern Italy?, Journal of Hydrology, 2024. [pdf]
Manfreda & Ben Dor, Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments, Earth Observation Series, Elsevier, 2023. [Link]
Manfreda et al., Impact of detention dams on the probability distribution of floods. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2021 [pdf]
Perks et al., Towards harmonisation of image velocimetry techniques for river surface velocity observations. Earth System Science Data, 2020. [pdf]
Tmušić et al., Practical guidance for UAS-based environmental mapping. Remote Sensing, 2020. [pdf]
Manfreda, On the derivation of flow rating-curves in data-scarce environments. Journal of Hydrogy, 2018. [pdf]
Manfreda et al., On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring. Remote Sensing, 2018. [pdf]
Samela et al., Geomorphic classifiers for flood-prone areas delineation for data-scarce environments. Advances in Water Resources, 2017. [pdf]
Manfreda et al., Flood-Prone Areas Assessment Using Linear Binary Classifiers based on flood maps obtained from 1D and 2D hydraulic models. Natural Hazards, 2015. [pdf]
Manfreda et al., A physically based approach for the estimation of root-zone soil moisture from surface measurements. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2014. [pdf]
Manfreda et al., Detection of Flood Prone Areas using Digital Elevation Models. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2011. [pdf]
Manfreda et al., Appunti di idrologia superficiale, Aracne Editrice, 2010. [Link]
Isham et al., Representation of Space-Time Variability of Soil Moisture. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2005. [pdf]
Manfreda et al., DREAM: a Distributed model for Runoff, Evapotranspiration, and Antecedent Soil Moisture Simulation. Advances in Geosciences, 2005. [pdf]