University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti Pescara
Full Professor in Hydraulic Engineering
About
* This profile page is created/updated for the 1st IAHR Online Forum (July 5-7, 2021) * Luigi Berardi is Associate Professor in Hydraulic Engineering at Engineering and Geology Department of University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti Pescara (Italy). In 2005-2006 he was Visiting Researcher at the Center for Water Systems, University of Exeter (UK); in 2009 he got a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and in 2010-2018 he was Research Fellow at Polytechnic of Bari (Italy). His main area of expertise is the analysis and asset management of water distribution networks (WDN) including: advanced hydraulic modelling and calibration; development of metrics for optimal WDN segmentation and DMA design; strategies to support optimal operation of pressure control devices; analysis of WDN vulnerability; optimal planning of rehabilitation; water losses management. In the area of hydroinformatics He worked on developing data-modeling techniques used for water infrastructure management (Multi-objective Evolutionary Polynomial Regression; Multi-objective Artificial Neural Networks). He is the author of about 100 scientific articles, of which about 35 in international scientific journals, cited about 1200 times (h-index 18) (source Scopus). orcid.org/0000-0002-6252-246
Career Type:
Scientist/Researcher/Academic
Organization Type:
Universities and Academia
Expertise Fields/Interests:
Urban Water Supply System analysis Digital Water Hydroinformatics
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