MSCA-RIBES - Key Persons
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- Senior Scientist and Leader of the Eco - Hydraulics Group at IGB
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- RESEARCH PROJECT ( ESR06 )
Alfredo Schiavon has a Masters in Biodiversity and Biological Evolution from University of Milan, and his studies have included toxicology, and freshwater biodiversity
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- Supervisor
- Co - Supervisors
- Coordinator and Management Team
- Vice - Coordinator
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- Coordinator
- People / Coordinator and Management Team
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- Chairman
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor in Hydraulics, Politecnico Di Torino, Phd in Environmental Hydraulics
- Co - Supervisors
- Coordinator and Management Team
PhD in Environmental Hydraulics at the University of Aberdeen (UK) in 2006. Post-doc at the Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (Davos, CH) in 2006-2008. Post-doc at University of Turin (IT) in 2008-2011. Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Southampton in 2011-2015. Associate Editor of Advances in Water Resources.
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- Project Manager
- Co - Supervisors
- Coordinator and Management Team
- RIBES Project Manager, Politecnico Di Torino, PhD in Fish Ecology.
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- Chairman
- Co - Supervisors
- Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Karlstad University.
Member of the River Ecology and Management research group. Expert in aquatic ecology with experience in lakes, rivers, field based and laboratory investigations. Project leader (PI) for several larger projects in lakes and in regulated rivers to study salmonid migration. Author of more than 50 papers in international journals. Supervisor of 11 PhD students. Opponent or Member of the Evaluation Committee for an additional 13.
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- Supervisor
- Co - Supervisors
- Senior Scientist and Leader of the Light Pollution
Senior scientist and Leader of the Light Pollution and Eco-physiology Group (IGB). Expert in fish bioenergetics, light pollution, eco-physiology, ecological modelling. Assoc. Professor for Zoology at Freie Universität Berlin (FUB). Former Chair of the COST-Action LoNNe (Loss of the Night Network, FP7-ESF, 2012-2016). Associate Editor of J. of Limnology, Member of the Editorial Board International Journal of Sustainable Lighting.
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- RESEARCH PROJECT ( ESR13 )
James Campbell has a master's degree in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has also worked on effects of anthropogenic noise on fish behavior at Leiden University, the Netherlands as well as with bird research at the University of Alberta, Canada.
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- Member of the Fellows Board
- ESR Representative
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- Founder at Fiskevårdsteknik AB
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- Member of the Fellows Board
- RESEARCH PROJECT ( ESR05 )
Miriam Castagna has a master's degree in Environmental Engineering from University of Padua. The title of her master thesis was "Numerical modelling of extreme runoff in the Piave River at Segusino". In RIBES, she will study hydrodynamics of swimming fish. Her project will focus on fundamental aspects of flow-fish interactions using laboratory experiments and employing advanced facilities and instrumentation.
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- Associate Professor in Ecohydraulics, Politecnico Di Torino, PhD in Water and Land Management
- Co - Supervisors
- Coordinator and Management Team
Marie Curie fellow in the HolRiverMed project (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF-275577) at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). Main research activities related to habitat modelling for environmental flow assessment. Co-developer of the meso-habitat simulation model (MesoHABSIM), widely applied at the global scale.
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- Co - Supervisors
- Professor in Ecological Engineering, University of Southampton
Founding Director of the International Centre for Eco-Hydraulics Research (www.icer.soton.ac.uk). PI in several International Projects on environmental impact assessment and fish populations (EU FP7, EA, EPSRC-ESRC, SEPA). Expert Advisor for governmental and non-governmental organisations: Chinese Ministry of Water Resources, US Regulatory Agencies and Native American Tribes, Swedish Hydropower Industry, EU.
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- People / Coordinator and Management Team
- RIBES Financial Officer, Politecnico Di Torino.
Graduated in Economics in 2007, with a Master in project management for business performance and innovation, member of the Italian Institute of Project Management. Fund raiser & Project Manager with IPMA certification with proven experience in managing the entire lifecycle of European and national financed projects. She has been working in national and international projects management for 12 years for Politecnico di Torino, within different frameworks and sectors belonging to environment
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- RESEARCH PROJECT ( ESR04 )
Sophia Schumann has a master's degree in Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation with emphasis in freshwater ecology from University of Greifswald, Germany and a bachelor's degree in Biology from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. Her master thesis was on "Ecological niche formation in microalgae through different light spectra".
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- RESEARCH PROJECT ( ESR08 )
Usama Ashraf has a master's degree in Hydroinformatics and Water Management from the EuroAquae+ project, meaning that he graduated from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Newcastle University, and Warsaw University of Technology in a joint master program. He earned his bachelors degree in Civil Engineering at the National University of Science and Technology in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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- Member of the Fellows Board
- ESR Representative