Giuseppe T Aronica is Full Professor of Flood Risk Management and Hydraulic Engineering at Dept. of Engineering, University of Messina from January 2018. He is graduated (M.Sc. in Hydraulic Engineering) from University of Palermo (Italy) in 1991. He holds a Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering from University of Naples (Italy).

He was visiting researcher at School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol (UK), Department of Environmental Science, Lancaster University (UK) and he has been Visiting Professor (2018) at Centre for Water Systems – University of Exeter (UK).

Research activities of Prof. Giuseppe T Aronica are related to flood risk management and flood defence design, flood vulnerability and damage evaluation, pluvial flooding, sustainable urban drainage systems, flood early warning flood propagation modelling, flash floods and debris flows.

He is currently Principal Investigator of many several national and international Research Project on the following topics: pluvial flooding, sustainable urban drainage systems, flood risk management and flood defence design.

Prof. Giuseppe T Aronica is author and co-author of more than 130 papers published in referred Italian and International scientific journals and symposium proceedings (SCOPUS metrics: 71 documents by author, 4162 citations, 28 H-index, Google Scholar: 6135 citations, 31 H-index).

He is Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Flood Risk Management, Water journal, European Water journal and Frontiers in Hydrosphere. He is Coordinator of the IAHR (International Association for Hydraulic Research) Urban Flood Modelling and Risk Management Working Group (UFMRM WG)