Personal Information
- Full Name : Daniela Molinari
- Date of birth : 15 June 1980
- Role : Associate professor & Department Delegate for communication
- Email : daniela.molinari@polimi.it
- Office : Piazza L. Da Vinci, 32
- Telephone : +39-02-23996206
Associate professor of Hydraulic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and Delegate for Communication of the Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Main research activity is related to flood risk assessment and management, with a focus on flood damage (more than 60 publications, including 2 books, h-index (Scopus)= 14). Key role in national and international research projects (17 projects, 4 of which as PI) as well as in research agreement with public bodies dealing with flood risk in Italy. Chair of the Flood Risk Management Technical Committee of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). Editor of the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (EGU).
Education and Professional Career
Associate Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
2021 -Senior Researcher, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2015 - 2021Research fellow, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2011 - 2015Doctoral Degree in Hydraulic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
2011Graduation in Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
2005Research
Research experience focuses on flood risk assessment and management. Development of damage assessment tools, with a multidisciplinary approach, is at the core of the research, for both ex-post (on the bases of field investigation) and ex-ante analyses (following a synthetic approach). Investigated sectors include, but are not limited to: residential buildings, economic activities, critical infrastructures and people, both at the meso (municipal, provincial) and at the micro (object-level) scale. Applied research involves the use of developed tools for the evaluation of risk mitigation strategies, e.g. the CBA/MCA of flood risk management plans, the definition of Emergency Plans and Recovery Plans.
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Chair of the of the Flood Risk Management Technical Committee, IAHR
2022 -Associate Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
2021 -Editor Journal of Flood Risk Management
2021 -Editor of the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
2020 -Delegate for Communication of the Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
2020 -Vice – chair of the of the Flood Risk Management Technical Committee, IAHR
2019-2022Senior Researcher, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2015 - 2021Reviewer for top journals in natural hazards, hydrology and environmental sciences
2007 -[Natural Hazards, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Sustainability, Water Resource Management, Journal of Flood Risk Management, Science of the Total Environment, Water Resources Research, Journal of Environmental Management, SN Applied Science, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Cities and Society, Elsevier]
2023
Haun S., Molinari D., Muste M., Dewals B.: The role of hydraulic engineering in support of flood mitigation and resilience, IAHR White Paper Series,1, 2023
Molinari D., Dewals B., Haun S, El Kadi Abderrezzak K., Vitthal Kale R.: Integrated flood risk management as a tool to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals, Hydrolink 1, 2023
Asaridis, P., Molinari, D.: A conceptual model for the estimation of flood damage to power grids, Adv. Geosci., 61, 1–21, https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-61-1-2023, 2023.
2022
Gain A.K., Bühler Y., Haegeli P., Molinari D., Parise M., Peres D. J., Pinto J.G., Schröter K., Trigo R.M., Carmen Llasat M., Kreibich H.: Brief Communication: Key papers of 20 years in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 985–993, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-985-2022, 2022
Scorzini A.R., Dewals B., Rodriguez Castro D., Archambeau P., Molinari D.: INSYDE-BE: Adaptation of the INSYDE model to the Walloon Region (Belgium), Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1743–1761, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1743-2022, 2022
Simonelli T., Zoppi L., Molinari D., Ballio, F.: Invited perspectives: When research meets practice: challenges, opportunities, and suggestions from the implementation of the Floods Directive in the largest Italian river basin, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1819–1823, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1819-2022, 2022
Manselli L., Molinari D., Pogliani A., Zambrini F., Menduni G., Improvements and Operational Application of a Zero-Order Quick Assessment Model for Flood Damage: A Case Study in Italy. Water,14, 373, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14030373, 2022
Lazzarin T., Viero D.P., Molinari D., Ballio F., Defina A., Flood damage functions based on a single physics- and data-based impact parameter that jointly accounts for water depth and velocity. Journal of Hydrology, 607, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127485, 2022
2021
Molinari D., Dazzi S., Gattai E., Minucci G., Pesaro G., Radice A., Vacondio R., Cost–beneft analysis of food mitigation measures: a case study employing high‑performance hydraulic and damage modelling, Natural Hazards, on line first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04814-6, 2021
Pogliani A., Bertulessi M., Bignami D.F., Boschini I., Del Vecchio M., Menduni G., Molinari D., Zambrini F., A Zero-Order Flood Damage Model for Regional-Scale Quick Assessments, Water, 13(9), 1292, https://doi.org/10.3390/w13091292, 2021
Radice A., Ballio F., Longoni L., Menoni S., Molinari D., Papini M., Discussion of “Recommendations for teaching a successful design-based course: hydraulic structure design”, by B. P. Tullis and S. L. Barfuss, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 147 (3), https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001863, 2021
2020
Molinari, D., Tsionis, G., Athanasopoulou, A., Bournas, D., Ciurean, R., De Gregorio, D., Leone, M., Rossetto, T., Sousa, M.L., Zuccaro, G., ‘Residential sector’, in: Casajus Valles, A., Marin Ferrer, M., Poljanšek, K., Clark, I. (eds.), Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow, EUR 30183 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, ISBN 978-92-76-18182-8, doi:10.2760/571085, JRC114026.
Toreti, A., Bassu, S., Perez Blanco, D., Capitanio, F., Ramos Ribeiro, R.R., Molinari, D., Webber, H., ‘Agriculture’, in: Casajus Valles, A., Marin Ferrer, M., Poljanšek, K., Clark, I. (eds.), Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow, EUR 30183 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, ISBN 978-92-76-18182-8, doi:10.2760/571085, JRC114026.
Minucci G., Molinari D., Gemini G., Pezzoli S., Enhancing flood risk maps by a participatory and collaborative design process, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101747, 2020
Sairam N., Schröter K., Carisi F., Wagenaar D., Domeneghetti A., Molinari D., Brill F., Priest S., Viavattene C., Merz B., Kreibich H., Bayesian Data-Driven Approach Enhances Synthetic Flood Loss Models, Environmental Modelling and Software 132, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104798, 2020
Galliani M., Molinari D., Ballio F., Brief communication: simple-INSYDE, development of a new tool for flood damage evaluation from an existing synthetic model, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2937–2941, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2937-2020, 2020
Molinari D., Scorzini A. R., Arrighi C., Carisi F., Castelli F., Domeneghetti A., Gallazzi A., Galliani M., Grelot F., Kellermann P., Kreibich H., Mohor G. S., Mosimann M., Natho S., Richert C., Schroeter K., Thieken A. H., Zischg A. P., Ballio F., Are flood damage models converging to reality? Lessons learnt from a blind test, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2997–3017, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2997-2020, 2020
Teaching
Teaching activity comprises tenure of master classes in Emergency Plans for Hydrogeological Risk within the curricula of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, and classes of Fluid Mechanics at the School of Industrial Engineering (Politecnico di Milano). For additional information visit the official page on Politecnico website.
International and national research projects
HYRMA
Start in September 2023Hydrogeological Risk assessment through Collaborative Mapping (PRIN project). Role: PI
RETURN
2022-ongoingmulti-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate (PNRR). Role: WP leader
Preparação para as mudanças climáticas e igualdade na província de Cabo Delgado - Preparing for climate change and pursuing social equality in the province of Cabo Delgado (EU – Europeaid)
2021 - ongoingLODE
2019 - 2021Loss Data Enhancement for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Management (EU prevention and preparedness projects in Civil Protection and Marine Pollution)
Flood-IMPAT+
2019 - 2021An Integrated Meso & micro scale Procedure to Assess Territorial flood risk (Fondazione Cariplo). Role: PI
IDEA
2015 - 2016Improving Damage assessments to Enhance cost-benefit Analyses (EU prevention and preparedness projects in Civil Protection and Marine Pollution)
KNOW-4-DRR
2013 - 2015Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation (EU FP7 program)
Poli-RISPOSTA
2013 - 2015stRumentI per la protezione civile a Supporto delle POpolazioni nel poST Alluvione – Development of tools in support of Civil Protection aid to people in case of flood (Polisocial Award, Politecnico di Milano)
ENSURE
2011 - 2014Enhancing resilience of communities and territories facing natural and na-tech hazards (EU FP7 program)
MIARIA
2009 - 2012Monitoraggio Idrogeologico Adattativo a Supporto del Piano di Rischio Integrato Alpino - Adaptive hydrogeological monitoring system supporting Alpine Integrated Risk Plan (INTERREG Project Italy-Switzerland)
Early Warning Systems
2007 - 2009Integration among technical, communication and spatial planning aspects (MIUR - Ministry of Education, Research and University of Italy)
SCENARIO
2006 - 2007Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mitigation (EU FP6 program)
PROMETEO - RI-IMAGE
2005 - 2008strategic research on integration of methods and approaches of hydro-geological risk analyses in order to improve emergency management (Politecnico di Milano)
ARMONIA
2004 - 2007Applied Multi Risk Mapping of Natural Hazards for impact assessment (EU FP6 program).