Liviana Sciuto
Keywords
Agriculture, Environment, Sustainability, Wastewater Treatment, Soil Bioengineering , Flood Risk Management, Nature-Based Solutions, Geographic Information System, Hydrological-hydraulic modelling.
Graduated in Territorial, Environmental and Landscape Protection in 2019. PhD in «Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science» at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania (Sicily, Italy). She conducts research in the Hydraulics and Territory Section on the wastwater reclamation and reuse, the soil bioengineering techniques for hydraulic-forestry management, the monitoring and management of surface runoff in urban and peri-urban areas by evaluating the implementation of Nature-Based Solutions for hydraulic risk mitigation by using hydrologic and hydraulic models (HEC-HMS - Hydrologic Modelling System, HEC-RAS - River Analysis System). She has been actively involved since 2021 in the European Italy-Malta Project entitled "Green Infrastructures to mitigate flood risks in Urban and sub-urban areas and to improve the quality of rainwater drainage" (GIFLUID), and, currently, has been actively involved since 2023 in the Horizon Europe Project entitled «Climate Adaptation and Resilience Demonstrated In the MEDiterranean region - CARDIMED». She has authored several scientific articles in international journals (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3658-176X).
His research activity is at the present time mainly focused on the following topics: wastwater reclamation and reuse; biomass enhancement for energy production; soil bioengineering techniques for hydraulic-forestry management; stormwater management in urban area through Nature-Based Solutions; hydraulic risk assessment in urban area by using hydrological-hydraulic models at basin scale (HEC-HMS, EPA SWMM, HEC-RAS). Has published more than 25 scientific papers in national and international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Some scientific publications have been written in collaboration with the Energy and Water Agency (Malta), BOKU University of Vienna (Austria), and the Regional Technical Department of the Sicilian Region.