Giulio Dolcetti

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. The University of Sheffield (UK), Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dissertation: Remote Monitoring of Shallow Turbulent Flows Based on the Doppler Spectra of Airborne Ultrasound (2017).
• MSc in Mechanical Engineering (110/110 CL). Università degli Studi di Ferrara. Dissertation: Experiments on Water Surface Roughness in Open-Channel Flows (2012).
• BSc in Aerospace Engineering (110/110 CL). Università degli Studi di Padova. (2008).

  Research Experience:

• Postdoctoral Researcher. Università degli Studi di Trento, Department of Civil Environmental and Mechanical Engineering. Project title: Eco-geomorphic Carbon Pumping from Rivers to Blue Carbon Ecosystems (e-CAPTURE). Funding: PRIN (2023-current).
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Holder. Università degli Studi di Trento, Department of Civil Environmental and Mechanical Engineering. Project title: Measuring Interfacial Gas Evasion Fluxes from Regulated Mountain Rivers. Funding: Fondazione Caritro (2021-2023).
• Postdoctoral Research Associate. The University of Sheffield, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering. Project title: Rapid Monitoring of River Hydrodynamics and Morphology Using Acoustic Holography. Funding: UK EPSRC (2018-20).
• Research Engineer in Fibre Optic Flow Sensing (KTP Associate). The University of Sheffield; Nuron Limited, London (UK). Project title: Fibre-Optic Sewer Flow Monitoring and Management Technology. Funding: Innovate UK (2018).
• Postdoctoral Research Associate. The University of Sheffield, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Project title: Acoustic Technique to Monitor Dynamics of Water Systems. Funding: UK EPSRC (2017-18)
• Ph.D. Student. The University of Sheffield, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dissertation: Remote Monitoring of Shallow Turbulent Flows Based on the Doppler Spectra of Airborne Ultrasound. Supervisors: A. Krynkin, K.V. Horoshenkov, S.J. Tait. Co-funding: ADS LLC (2013-17).
• Master's Student. Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and University of Bradford, School of Engineering, Design & Technology. Project title: Experiments on Water Surface Roughness in Open-Channel Flows. Supervisors: F. Pompoli, P. Bonfiglio, K.V. Horoshenkov. (2012)

   Teaching Certificate:

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Learning Support in Higher Education). (2017)

   Teaching Experience:

• Teaching Assistant - Thermofluids (BSc) (Università degli Studi di Trento, Department of Industrial Engineering) (2021-current)
• Substitute panel member, Mechanical Engineering MSc vivas. Assessor, Bioengineering final year project posters. (The University of Sheffield) (2019)
• Lab tutorial - Acoustics (MSc) (The University of Sheffield) (2017)
• Lab tutorial - Solidworks (BEng) (The University of Sheffield, Department of Mechanical Engineering) (2016)
• Superdemonstrator - An Introduction to Solidworks (MSc, PhD) (The University of Sheffield, Department of Mechanical Engineering) (2015-17)

   Supervision:

• Thesis and research support for 3 PhD students, 3 MSc students, and 2 BSc students.

Research Interest:

My research activity revolves mostly around the characterisation of water surface dynamics in turbulent flows, including related phenomena (gas evasion fluxes) and engineering applications (non-contact hydraulic measurements, ultrasound scattering). 

Main Research Topics:

• Manifestation of free-surface-turbulence-bed interactions in open-channel and partially filled pipe flows;
• Gravity-capillary waves dynamics in sheared flows;
• CO2 and CH4 evasion fluxes at the free surface of rivers;
• Non-contact river monitoring techniques based on videos, radar Doppler, and sound scattering;
• Reconstruction of water surface shape based on ultrasound scattering;
• Instrumentation and experimental/numerical signal processing in hydraulics and fluid mechanics.

Editorial Activity:

• Guest Editor of the Special Issue Experimental Methods and Instrumentation in Hydraulics. Acta Geophysica. (2022) (with M. Nones, L. Przyborowski, M.M. Mrokowska, S. Conevski, M. Guerrero, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-00919-z)
• Reviewer for: Applied Physics Letters, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal of Applied Physics, Physics of Fluids, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Water Resources Research.

Events and Workshops Organisation:

• Co-Chair for the International Surface Velocimetry Workshop (The Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull), 4-6 May 2021, online.
• Member of the Organising Committee and co-chair for the Webinar on Experimental Methods and Laboratory Instrumentation (Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Science, IAHR T.C. on Experimental Method and Instrumentation), 13-15 April 2021, online.
• Head of the Organising Committee of the Acoustic Exchange Day (Sheffield Acoustics Early Career Researchers Network, with support from UK Institute of Acoustics), 2016.

Active Memberships:

• International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) - Member (since 2015).
• Acoustical Society of America (ASA) - Associate Member (since 2017)
• European Geosciences Union (EGU) - Regular Member (since 2019)
• Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica (GII) - Member (since 2022).

Past Memberships:

• UK Institute of Acoustics (IOA) - Associate Member (2017-21)
• UK Institute of Acoustics (IOA) - Student Member / Young Member Representative for the Yorkshire and North East Branch (2015-17)

• 15th ERCOFTAC Osborne Reynolds Research Student Award (third place), Manchester, UK. (2017)
• Young Researchers’ Competition (second place), The International School of Hydraulics (IAHR), Jachranka, Poland. (2017)
• ASA Student Council Travel Award, Acoustical Oceanography Committee, ASA/ASJ Joint Meeting, Honolulu, USA. (2016)
• IIAV Outstanding Student Travel Grant, presented by the Acoustical Society of the Netherlands with The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibrations, ICSV 22nd, Florence, Italy. (2015)

Invited Talks:

• HyPeak Research Network Webinar (online webinar) (invited by Dr D. Vanzo). (2023)
• KTH Royal Institute of Technology, MWL (online webinar) (invited by Dr E. Zea). (2021)
• IMechE Technical Visit: Laboratory for Verification & Validation, Sheffield, UK (invited by Dr R. Barthorpe). (2019)
• Kobe University, Department of Civil Engineering (invited by Prof. I. Fujita). (2019)
• Expert Contributor at the UK Surface Velocity River Discharge Methods Workshop, Environment Agency, Wallingford (invited by Dr N. Everard). (2018)
• Imperial College London, Department of Mathematics (invited by Prof. R. Craster). (2017)
• University of Reading, Meteorology Department (invited by Dr M. A. C. Teixeira). (2015)

Presentations at Conferences:

• EGU General Assembly, Vienna (AT). (oral pres.) (2023)
• Forum Acusticum 2020, online (oral pres.) (2020)
• River Flow 2020: 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, online (oral pres.) (2020)
• EGU General Assembly, Vienna (AT). (oral pres.) (2019).
• IOA Acoustics 2018 - Acwsteg 2018, Cardiff (GB). (oral pres.) (2018)
• 4th International Symposium of Shallow Flows (ISSF), Eindhoven (NL). (oral pres.) (2017)
• 5th Joint ASA/ASJ Meeting, Honolulu (USA). (oral pres.) (2016)
• 22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV), Florence (IT). (oral pres.) (2016)
• 36th IAHR World Congress, The Hague (NL). (oral pres.) (2016)
• IOA 40th Anniversary Conference, Birmingham (GB). (oral pres.) (2014)

Summer Schools & Workshops:

• International Surface Velocimetry Workshop, Lancaster (GB) & online. (2022)
• 4th Nordic Hydrometry Workshop, online. (2020)
• UK Surface Velocity River Discharge Methods Workshop, Wallingford (GB). (2018)
• XXXVI International School of Hydraulics, Jachranka, (PL). (2017)
• Summer School on Wave Propagation in Complex Media, Cargése, (FR). (2015)
• Workshop on Advances in Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamics, Sheffield (GB). (2015)