Environmental and Land Planning Engineer and Ph.D., Daniele F. Bignami (National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor, sector Urban and landscape planning and design) is at present in charge of the course Land planning for risk management of the MS of Architecture of the built environment at Politecnico di Milano, where he carried out teaching since 2006 in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction. Meanwhile he collaborated with the Italian Government - Civil Protection Department, and also with the Institute for an Industrial Safety Culture of Toulouse (France). Author of 3 books (and editor of 4 more) and author of more than 40 papers, mainly in the field of disaster management, built environment and urban issues, in 2005 he was hired by Politecnico of Milan Foundation as Research Project Manager, where he currently works, having gained experience from more than 40 projects achieved.
Renzo Rosso is a professor of Hydrology and Water Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy since 1986. He received the Borland Award for Hydrology in 2005, and the Henry Darcy Medal by the European Geosciences Union in 2010. He carried out research, graduate and post-graduate teaching, and project management at the National Research Council of Italy, the Universities of Genoa, Florence and Parma, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, and Colorado State University. Author of 8 research books, 3 college texts, 3 essays, one novel and about 400 papers (more than 100 in SCI journals) in the fields of hydrology, water resources, river engineering, climate and glaciology, fluvial geomorphology, reliability analysis, stochastic processes, nonlinear dynamics and fractals.
Civil Engineer and Ph.D in Hydraulic Engineering, Umberto Sanfilippo is full time Researcher at Politecnico di Milano since 2002. Currently he is in charge of the course of Hydraulic Structures of the Civil and Environmental Engineering first level graduation. He is also Head of the Flowmeters Calibration Service at the Laboratorio di Idraulica "G.Fantoli" of Politecnico di Milano. He is author and co-author of about 90 papers, most of them on urban drainage. He is also co-author of a book on real time control of urban drainage systems and a book on pumps and pumping stations. He has also worked on four EU research projects and eleven Italian national and regional research projects.