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) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) Volpi E, S Grimaldi, A Aghakouchak, A Castellarin,, ... Ridolfi E., The legacy of STAHY: Milestones, achievements, challenges, and open problems in statistical hydrology, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2024.
5) 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.
6) Kreibich H. … Ridolfi E. 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.
7) Kreibich H. … Ridolfi E., et al., The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, Nature, 608 (7921), 80-86, 2022.
8) Moccia, B.; Mineo, C.; Ridolfi, E.; Russo, F.; Napolitano, F. SPI-Based Drought Classification in Italy: Influence of Different Probability Distribution Functions. Water 2022, 14, 3668. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14223668
9) Di Baldassarre, G., Mondino, E., Rusca, M., Del Giudice, E., Mård, J., Ridolfi, E., Scolobig, A., and Raffetti, E.: Multiple hazards and risk perceptions over time: the availability heuristic in Italy and Sweden under COVID-19, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 3439–3447, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3439-2021, 2021.
10) Moccia, B., Mineo, C., Ridolfi, E., Russo, F., Napolitano, F., Probability distributions of daily rainfall extremes in Lazio and Sicily, Italy, and design rainfall inferences, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 33, 100771, 2021.
11) Bertini, C., Ridolfi, E., Resende de Padua, L.H., Russo, F., Napolitano, F., Alfonso, L., An entropy-based approach for the optimization of rain gauges network using satellite and ground-based data, Hydrology Research, 52 (3): 620–635, 2021.
12) Mondino, E., Di Baldassarre, G., Mård, J., Ridolfi, E., Rusca, M., Public perceptions of multiple risks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Sweden, Scientific Data, 7(1), 434, 2020.
13) Mondino, E., Di Baldassarre, G., Mård, J., Ridolfi, E., Rusca, M., A comparative dataset on public perceptions of multiple risks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Sweden [Data set]. Zenodo, 2020, http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4034277
14) Ridolfi, E., Mondino, E., Di Baldassarre, G., Hydrological risk: Modelling flood memory and human proximity to rivers, Hydrology Research, 52 (1): 241–252, 2021, https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2020.195.