{"id":1227,"date":"2009-11-19T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idrologia.polito.it\/web2\/?page_id=1227"},"modified":"2018-03-16T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T14:45:19","slug":"claps_en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.idrologia.polito.it\/web2\/en\/claps_en\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierluigi Claps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Full Professor<\/h3>\n

Politecnico di Torino<\/p>\n

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente, del\u00a0Territorio e delle
\nInfrastrutture (DIATI)<\/p>\n

C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
\n10129, Torino, Italy<\/p>\n

Tel.: +39-011-090-5656
\nFax: +39-011-090-5698
\npierluigi.claps @polito.it<\/p>\n

Professor Pierluigi Claps Personal page at polito.it<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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CURRICULUM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pierluigi Claps is full professor of Water Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino since October 2000. He got a M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering with honors in 1986 and a Ph.D. degree in Hydrology in 1990 at the Universit\u00e0 di Napoli. He was active as assistant professor and associate professor at the Universit\u00e0 della Basilicata (Potenza). He is author and co-author of more than 100 papers, mainly related to statistics and watershed hydrology topics, published on refereed journals (47) and on proceedings of national and international conferences.\u00a0From 1990 to 2005 P. Claps was involved in the activities of the CNR-GNDCI<\/a> (Italian group for prevention of hydro-geologic disasters) working at topics related to flood risk estimation at a regional scale. Within GNDCI, from 2001 he was in charge of the research unit 1.54 at the Politecnico di Torino and from 1999 he was member of the Scientific Committee, in which he provided support to the coordination of the Research line #1.<\/p>\n

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He is referee for international journals in the field of Hydrology and actively participates to the activities of the Hydrology division of the EGU, as session convener in several Annual EGU Meetings.\u00a0In 1999<\/strong>, he was Programme Committee Chair<\/strong> of the first of EGS-EGU Topical Conferences on Natural Hazards<\/a> (\u2018Mediterranean Storms<\/strong>\u2019) of which\u00a0he co-edited the Proceedings book<\/a> of the Conference.\u00a0He was member of the Scientific Committee<\/strong> of the 3rd<\/sup>, 9th<\/sup>, 10th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/em>11th<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/em>12th<\/sup>\u00a0e\u00a0<\/em>13th<\/sup>\u00a0EGS-EGU\u00a0Plinius Conference on\u00a0<\/strong>Mediterranean\u00a0Storms<\/strong><\/em>, of two\u00a0STAHY-IAHS Workshops<\/em>\u00a0(2010-2012), of the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0and 3rd\u00a0<\/sup>edition of the\u00a0<\/strong>EGU\u00a0Leonardo Conference.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>He\u00a0<\/em>was\u00a0<\/em>Programme Committee Chair\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a04th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/strong>EGU<\/strong>\u00a0Leonardo Conference \u201cHydrology and Society<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, <\/strong>held in Torino in November 2012.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>He has been Managing Guest Editor<\/strong> of the 2011 HESS special issue <\/strong>dedicated to \u201cCatchment classification and Prediction in Ungauged Basins\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong>In 2008 he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the XXXI Conference of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Works of Perugia, and\u00a0 co-chair<\/strong> of the XXXIV Conference of Hydraulic Engineering of Bari (2014) and of the XXXV Conference of Hydraulic Engineering of Bologna (2016).<\/p>\n

From\u00a02005 to 2105 he has been\u00a0Chair of the Scientific Committee of the HydroAid<\/a> association, a no-profit organization offering courses, training\u00a0 and capacity building to developing country in the water sector.\u00a0Since 2009 he is in the managing board of the Italian Consortium of Universities for Hydrology (CINID<\/a>). From 2012 to 2016<\/strong> he has been President of the Italian Group of Water Engineering<\/strong> (GII<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Among the most relevant research projects led by Prof. Claps at the Politecnico di Torino are: Participation to the Steering Committee of Water Resources Master Plan of the Regione Piemonte, Assessment of flood risk reduction by systems of reservoirs in the area of the Maggiore lake (Interreg III<\/a> EU funds), Water resources assessment and management under water scarcity scenarios (Italian Ministry for University and Research \u2013MIUR\u2013\u00a02003), Water resources assessment and multipurpose management with regard to the realization of new reservoirs in Piemonte (Regione Piemonte 2003),\u00a0Improving snow storage assessment by means of new experimental stations and techniques (Regione Piemonte, 2007),\u00a0\u00a0CUBIST<\/a>: Characterisation of Ungauged Basins by Integrated uSe of hydrological Techniques, (MIUR, 2005-2009),\u00a0Design floods estimation in Piedmont, with particular reference to catchments closed by dams, (ENEL spa, 2008), Assessment of agricultural water demands in the Baraggia district<\/a>, Funded by Consorzio Ovest- Sesia Baraggia, (2008); Regional-scale analysis of water use from hydropower production plants (Regione Piemonte, 2010). Ongoing projects are: \u00a0FLORA: Flood estimation in complex Orographic area for Risk mitigation in Alpine space, (EU -Interreg IV), RISKNAT: Natural Risk management in mountain landscapes, Funded by (EU -Interreg IV), RENERFOR, Assessment of small\u00a0hydropower production potential in North-western Italy, (EU Interreg-Alcotra), Evaluation of the hydrologic and hydraulic safety of large dams (General Directorate for dams , water and electricity infrastructures) .<\/p>\n

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RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n