Simone Bizzi

Simone was a Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellow at the Catchment Science Centre, where he awarded his PhD with a thesis on “Process-based characterization of hydromorphology at a catchment scale: approaches, modelling frameworks and links with biology”.

He is currently a PostDoc in the Modeling and management of environmental systems research group at Politecnico di Milano (http://www.dei.polimi.it/personale/dettaglio.php?&id_persona=1319&ruolo=5&lettera=&idlang=eng) and part of the management board of the Italian Centre for River Restoration (CIRF, www.cirf.org).

Simone is interested in system analysis applied to natural resources. His research interest is about developing new modelling frameworks to describe and predict fluvial geomorphic behaviours and analysing links between river hydromorphology and ecology. More recently his research activity has started to include also modelling and control of water resources and decision theory for supporting participatory planning of water resources.

Main publications:

Bizzi, S., Surridge, B. W. J., & Lerner, D. N. (2012). Structural equation modelling: a novel statistical framework for exploring the spatial distribution of benthic macroinvertebrates in riverine ecosystems. River Research and Applications, doi:10.1002/rra.2563.

Bizzi, S., & Lerner, D. N. (2012). Characterizing physical habitats in rivers using map-derived drivers of fluvial geomorphic processes. Geomorphology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.04.009.

Contact Details

Email: bizzi@elet.polimi.it ; s.bizzi@cirf.org