CONTRIBUTOR:

Francesco Comiti

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Science and Technology

INSTITUTION:

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

BIOGRAPHY:

Francesco Comiti, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) since 2015. He obtained his PhD at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2004, and later in 2007 he was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Colorado State University (U.S.A.). Current teaching activities include management of natural hazards, hydromorphology and flood risk mitigation in mountain rivers. His research focuses on the monitoring of water, sediment and wood fluxes in mountain basins, including ecohydrological dynamics, long-term river changes and geomorphic response to floods and debris flow events. He is currently associate editor for the journal “Water Resources Research” and member of the Editorial board of “Geomorphology”.