Dr. Brandimarte graduated in Environmental Engineering at the University of Bologna -Italy- in 2001, discussing a MSc thesis on flood propagation models. She took her PhD in Hydraulic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano -Italy- in 2005, discussing a thesis on a probabilistic approach to estimate scour depth around bridge piers in cohesive soils. She developed her PhD topic in collaboration with the University of Virginia -USA-.

She worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna until 2007.

She collaborated as consultant engineer with the Po river plan bureau of land reclamation and irrigation in Modena -Italy- and worked in the year 2008 as project manager for the Hydroaid Association -Italy-

She has been involved as a lecturer and as a project coordinator in several capacity building projects and Master programs with the Dominican Republic, Haiti, South America and Kazakhstan.

In January 2009 she joined UNESCO-IHE as a Lecturer in Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development. She is responsible for the course of River Structures within the core of Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development.

Dr. Brandimarte main research and training interests lie on hydraulic structures and flood risk mitigation measures.

Key Publications :

Brandimarte, L. and G. Di Baldassarre, "Uncertainty in design flood profiles derived by hydraulic modelling", Hydrology Research, in press

Toth, E. and L. Brandimarte, “Prediction of local scour depth at bridge piers under clear-water and live-bed conditions: comparison of literature formulae and artificial neural networks”, Journal of Hydroinformatics, doi:10.2166/hydro.2011.065 in press

Di Baldassarre, G., G. Schumann, L. Brandimarte, P.D. Bates, Timely low resolution SAR Imagery to support floodplain modelling: a case study review, Survey in Geophysics, 32(3), 2011, 255-269, doi: 10.1007/s10712-011-9111-9.

Di Baldassarre, G., Montanari, A., Lins, H., Koutsoyiannis, D., Brandimarte, L., and G. Blöschl, “Flood fatalities in Africa: from diagnosis to mitigation”, Geophysical Research Letters, 2010, 37, L22402, doi:10.1029/2010GL045467

Brandimarte, L., Di Baldassarre, G., Bruni, G., D’Odorico, P. and A. Montanari, “Relation between the North-Atlantic Oscillation and hydroclimatic conditions in Mediterranean areas”, Water Resources Management, 2010, DOI 10.1007/s11269-010-9742-5

Brandimarte, L., Brath, A., Castellarin, A. and G. Di Baldassarre, “Isla Hispaniola: a trans-boundary flood risk mitigation plan”, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 34 (4-5), 2009, pp. 209-218.

Briaud, J-L., Brandimarte, L., Wang, J. and P. D’Odorico, “Probability of scour depth exceedance owing to hydrologic uncertainty”, Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Volume 1(2), June 2007, pp. 77–88

Brandimarte, L., P. D’Odorico and A. Montanari, “A probabilistic approach to the analysis of contraction scour”, Journal of Hydraulic Research, 44(5), 2006, pp. 654-662

Brandimarte, L., A. Montanari, Briaud, J-L and P. D’Odorico, “Stochastic Flow Analysis for Predicting River Scour of Cohesive Soils”, ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 132 (5), 2006, pp. 493-500

Castellarin, A., Galeati, G., Brandimarte, L., Brath, A. and A. Montanari, “Regional flow-duration curve: reliability for ungauged basins”, Advances in Water Resources, 27(10), 2004, pp. 953-965

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