ELENA RIDOLFI

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ISTRUZIONE & IMPIEGHI

2025-oggi Professoressa Associata in Idrologia e Costruzioni Idrauliche presso Sapienza Università di Roma
2022-2025 Ricercatrice a tempo determinato di tipo B presso Sapienza Università di Roma

2019-2020 Ricercatrice, Department of Earth Sciences, Università di Uppsala

2015-2018 Ricercatore a tempo determinato (Rtd-a), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Università di Perugia
2013 PhD (European PhD Label), in Ingegneria Idraulica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia 03/6/2013, Tutor: Prof. F. Napolitano.

2011-2012 Special Programme, presso l’UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Olanda
2009 Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Civile presso Sapienza, Università di Roma.

2006 Laurea Triennale in Ingegneria Civile presso Università degli Studi-Roma Tre-Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile.

Dal 2022 Presidente Commissione Gestione delle risorse idriche, piccoli e grandi invasi presso l’Ordine degli Ingegneri di Roma

PREMI

2022 Best paper award, assegnato dalla Nordic Hydrology Association, agli autori della migliore publicazione scientifica in Hydrology Research/Nordic Hydrology, “Ridolfi E., Mondino E., Di Baldassare E., Hydrological risk: modeling flood memory and human proximity to rivers, Hydrology Research, 52 (1): 241–252, 2021”
2019 Best paper award, assegnato dalla Università di Perugia per il paper “Ridolfi E. et al., A new methodology to define homogeneous regions through an entropy based clustering method, Advances in Water Resources, 96, 237-250, 2016”

PUBBLICAZIONI RECENTI
1) Biella, R., Shyrokaya, A., Ionita, M., Vignola, R., ..., Ridolfi, E., et al.: The 2022 drought needs to be a turning point for European drought risk management, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 4475–4501, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-4475-2025, 2025.
2) Biella, R., Shyrokaya, A., …., Ridolfi, E., Ceola, S., Alencar, P., Di Baldassarre, G., Ionita, M., de Brito, M. M., McGrane, S. J., Moccia, B., Nagavciuc, V., Russo, F., Krakovska, S., Todorovic, A., Trambauer, P., Vignola, R., and Teutschbein, C.: Lessons learned in institutional preparedness and response during the 2022 European drought, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 955–979, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-955-2026, 2026.
3) Moccia, B.; Buonora L., Bertini C., Ridolfi, E.; Russo, F.; Napolitano, F. What is your pick? Assessmjent of satellite and reanalysis precipitation dataset over Italy, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 60 (102487), 2025
4) Kreibich, H., Sivapalan, M., AghaKouchak, A., ... Ridolfi E., … Blöschl, G. (2025). Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 70(7), 1210–1236. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2025.2469762
5) De Luca D.L., Napolitano, F., Kim, D., Onof, C., Biondi, D., Wang, L.P., Russo, F., Ridolfi, E., Moccia, B., Marconi, F., Rainfall Nowcasting models: state of the art and possible future perspectives, Hydrological sciences Journal (accepted for publication)
6) Morbidelli R.… Ridolfi E. et al. A reassessment of the history of the temporal resolution of rainfall data at the global scale, J. of Hydrology, 654, 132841, 2025
7) Ridolfi E., M Lucantonio, G Di Baldassarre, B Moccia, F Napolitano, F. Russo, The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history, Ambio, 1-13, 2024
8) Moccia, B.; Mineo, C.; Ridolfi, E.; Russo, F.; Napolitano, F. On the Occurrence of Extreme Rainfall Events Across Italy: Should We Update the Probability of Failure of Existing Hydraulic Works?, Water Resources Management, 2024, 38(11), pp. 4069–4082
9) Volpi, E., Grimaldi, S., Aghakouchak, A., Castellarin, A., Chebana, F., Papalexiou, S. M., … Ridolfi E., … Sharma, A. (2024). The legacy of STAHY: milestones, achievements, challenges, and open problems in statistical hydrology. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 69(14), 1913–1949. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2024.2385686
10) De Luca, D.L., Ridolfi, E., Russo, F., Moccia, B., Napolitano, F. Climate change effects on rainfall extreme value distribution: the role of skewness, Journal of Hydrology, 2024, 634, 130958.
11) Buonora L., B Moccia, E Ridolfi, F Russo, F Napolitano Safety Assessment of Bridges: Analysis and Criticalities of the Guidelines for Hydraulic Risk Management, Procedia Structural Integrity 62, 647-652, 2024
12) Van Loon AF, …, Ridolfi E., et al. Drought as a continuum: memory effects in interlinked hydrological, ecological, and social systems, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 24 (9), 3173-3205, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-421, 2024.Kreibich H. et al., Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 2009–2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2009-2023, 2023.
13) Kreibich H. et al., The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, Nature, 608 (7921), 80-86, 2022.