In the summer of 2021, I visited Jordan, enjoying everyday life in Amman (I was traveling with my future wife for her research on refugees). During the trip, I got the opportunity to visit some old colleagues, in particular Stefan Stromeheier (now…
The Master's Thesis is probably a student’s greatest achievement It can be considered proof of your career, and a visit card for entering the job market. Despite these premises, many students I am following still struggle to deliver an appropriate piece of…
Nell'ambito del Centro Nazionale AGRITECH stiamo selezionando una/un candidata/o per una borsa di dottorato su "Metodologie di analisi e indicatori per la gestione sostenibile della risorsa idrica nel settore agri‐food Italiano".
Il bando è aperto al link https://www.unifi.it/p12246.html. La scadenza della…
by Giulio Castelli Fog is a fresh water resource. Despite, as humans, we cannot easily conceive the fact that these tiny water droplets carried by the wind can sustain life and human activities, trees, as well as the vegetation of arid areas,…
I had the opportunity to put together 5 years of research, travels and people working across Italy and Ethiopia on a presentation for a recent seminar. The story is becoming long and full of experiences.
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In these last days, I had the opportunity of reviewing two papers from two different ISI/Web of Science journals.
Both papers cited external sources (journal articles) for justifying important statement on which both the works were based. I checked the whole stuff.…
Photo credits: Matteo Anaclerio, title credits: Tommaso Pacetti
During my BSc, MSc and then PhD studies, I was (luckily) exposed to the concept of "Appropriate Technologies", namely technological choices and applications that are small-scale, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous…
"Warid" is a good mix of the words Water and Arid. In Arabic "warid" - وريد means "inspiration" and literally "vein" ("vena" in italiano). And like veins carry bloods within our bodies, water is carried by rivers. It seemed to me a good…