CV

Post-doctoral Researcher

Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Responsible for WP4 (Integrated real-time monitoring system) of the MOHYCAM project (Fondazione Cariplo, Territori Sicuri), addressing hydrogeological hazards at the Belvedere Glacier (Monte Rosa) and the Anza River.

• Design and installation of a multi-camera system covering the Belvedere Glacier northern lobe, plus real-time webcams along the River Anza for flood and solid-transport detection.
• Automated daily 3D reconstruction of the glacier lobe from time-lapse imagery to derive DEMs, orthophotos and daily ablation rates.
• Debris-deposit volume estimation, with GNSS stations and autonomous drone surveys integrated into a unified monitoring framework.

Post-doctoral Researcher

CNR IRPI (Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection)

Automated low-cost image-analysis workflows for glacier-instability risk management at the Planpincieux Glacier (Mont Blanc), using terrestrial stereoscopic time-lapse cameras for kinematics detection, ice-avalanche monitoring and velocity computation.

Post-doctoral Researcher

University of Zurich, Dept. of Geography

Automated pipelines for regional-to-global scale Digital Elevation Model reconstruction from satellite multi-view stereo for glacier mass-balance assessment.

• Contributed to the Glambie-2 Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise.
• Large-scale geospatial processing on Slurm-based HPC clusters.

Teaching Assistant

Politecnico di Milano

Teaching support and independent lecturing for BSc and MSc courses.

• Photogrammetry and UAV Surveying (MSc), Statistics (BSc), 3D Modelling for Architecture (BSc/MSc), GIS (BSc).
• Tutor in the Belvedere Glacier summer schools on topographic surveying in mountain environments (2021-2025).

Visiting PhD Student

University of Twente, ITC

Developed a deep-learning wide-baseline stereo matching workflow for 4D alpine glacier monitoring with low-cost time-lapse cameras.

Visiting Student (MSc Thesis)

VAW, ETH Zürich

River Engineering group — Particle Image Velocimetry and UAV-based estimation of river-flow discharge from image analysis.

Scientific Volunteer

Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo (SGL)

Field data collection for glacier mass balance and retreat monitoring in Lombardy.

Volunteer (climate advocacy)

Protect Our Winters (POW)

Initiatives promoting climate awareness and responsible engagement on climate impacts.

PhD

Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (Geomatics)

• Thesis: Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Photogrammetry for Alpine Glacier Monitoring. Supervisor: prof. L. Pinto; co-supervisor: prof. F. Nex.
• Developed an image-based system with low-cost stereo cameras for short-term 4D glacier monitoring, including a daily 3D reconstruction pipeline with extreme-wide baselines using deep-learning feature matching.
• Applied UAV photogrammetry to structural health assessment (automated crack detection on concrete bridges) and cultural heritage documentation.

MSc

Politecnico di Milano

Environmental and Land Planning Engineering

• Major in Land Monitoring and Diagnostics.
• Thesis: Evaluation of Airborne Image Velocimetry approaches with low-cost UAVs in riverine environments (in collaboration with VAW, ETH Zürich).

BSc

Politecnico di Milano

Environmental and Land Planning Engineering

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship — Seal of Excellence

European Commission

Awarded for the CryoLens proposal in both the 2024 and 2025 calls (evaluation scores 92.8% and 95.4%).

Premio Giovani 2023 — Sezione Ricerca

SIFET (Italian Society of Photogrammetry and Topography)

Young-researcher prize for high-frequency 4D monitoring of alpine glaciers with low-cost time-lapse cameras and deep-learning Structure-from-Motion.

EGU Higher Education Teaching Grant

European Geosciences Union

Awarded for open teaching material for the summer school on topographic surveys for territorial monitoring in mountain environments.

Open Data Day Mini-Grant

Open Knowledge Foundation

For the webinar “Mapping Climate Change in 4D: Belvedere Glacier’s Open Geo Data for Education and Research”.