Phd in ENVIRONMENTAL AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING

email: paolo.monti@uniroma1.it
phone: 0644585045
building: San Pietro in Vincoli, Edificio D, II piano
room: 6

EDUCATION
1990: degree in “Aeronautical Engineering”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
1994: Ph.D. in "Environmental Engineering", University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
1996-1998: post-doc student in "Environmental Engineering", University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

CAREER/EMPLOYMENT
2000-present: Researcher in “Hydraulics" at the “Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale” of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
2017-2023- National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor/Area 08 – Hydraulics-Hydrology.
2018-2024- National Academic Qualification as Full Professor/Area 08 – Hydraulics-Hydrology.

TEACHINGH ACTIVITY
Teaching involves master courses in Environmental Engineering (Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Environmental and Maritime Hydraulics, Urban Climatology), and Ph.D. thesis supervision. Member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Environmental and Hydraulics Engineering.

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
Lagrangian stochastic models of particle dispersion in ocean and atmosphere • Sea and land breeze regimes • Urban heat islands • Gravity flows • Turbulent mixing in stably stratified flows • Flow and pollutant dispersion in urban canopies. This activity is documented by nearly 40 articles published on peer-reviewed journals with impact factor and by other publications and talks. He has collaborated with numerous research institutions and Italian and foreign universities (e.g. ISAC, ENEA, INGV, MetOffice, NCAR, Arizona State University, University of Utah, University of Lyon, University of Notre Dame, Polytechnic University of Catalunya; University of Los Angeles).

COMMITTEE MEMBER
2016-2017 Scientific Committee of HARMO (Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for
Regulatory Purposes).

JOURNAL REFEREE
Physics of Fluids • Advances in Water Resources • Environmental Fluid Mechanics • Atmosphere • Building and Environment • Boundary-Layer Meteorology • Journal of Applied Meteorology • Urban Climate • Theoretical and Applied Climatology • Remote Sensing • Disease of Aquatic Organisms • International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology • Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association • Science of the Total Environment • Wind and Structures • International Journal of Environment and Pollution.

VISITING POSITIONS
2000-2003 Visiting Professor, Arizona State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Tempe, Arizona (5 months).

MAIN RESEARCH GRANTS
2017 (Local) Principal investigator of the project "Numerical and experimental study of the transfer of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) within indoor environment" (Funds: Ministry of Health, € 220,000).
2011 Principal investigator of the Research Project “Analysis of the Energetic Potential associated to the
wave motion of the Mediterranean Sea”, stipulated with the National Agency for New Technologies" (ENEA). Fund: 40,000 Euro.
2006 (Local) principal investigator of DICEA of the PRIN project titled "Hyperspectral analysis of sand bars
dynamics in lagoons". He has taken part to many other national and international research projects regarding fluid mechanics and environmental hydraulics (Fund: 40,000 €).

LIST OF REFERRED PUBLICATIONS
Di Bernardino A, Pelliccioni A, Monti P, Leuzzi G, Querzoli G (2019). Evaluation of parametric laws for computing the wind speed profile in the urban boundary layer: Comparison to two-dimensional building water channel data. International Journal of Environment and Pollution, In Press.
Salvati A, Monti P, Coch Roura H, Cecere C (2019) Climatic performance of urban textures: analysis tools for a Mediterranean urban context. Energy and Building 185, 162-179.
Pini A, Leuzzi G, Monti P (2018) Statistical analysis of turbulent dispersion in the sea surface layer based on satellite-tracked drifter data. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 28, 240-247.
Ravanelli R, Nascetti A, Cirigliano RV, Di Rico C, Leuzzi G, Monti P, Crespi M (2018) Monitoring the impact of land cover change on surface urban heat island through Google Earth Engine: proposal of a global methodology, first applications and problems. Remote Sensing 10, 1488.
Di Bernardino A, Monti P, Leuzzi G, Querzoli G (2018) Pollutant fluxes in two-dimensional street canyons. Urban Climate 24, 80-93.
Di Bernardino A, Monti P, Leuzzi G, Querzoli G (2017) Pollutant removal mechanism in two-dimensional street canyons: a laboratory study. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 62, 291-304.
Di Bernardino A, Monti P, Leuzzi G, Querzoli G (2017) Water-channel estimation of Eulerian and Lagrangian time scale of the turbulence in idealized two-dimensional urban canopies. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 165, 251-276.
Valerio G, Cantelli A, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2017) A modeling approach to identify the effective forcing exerted by wind on a prealpine lake surrounded by a complex topography. Water Resources Research 53, 4036-4052.
Cantelli A, Monti P, Leuzzi G, Valerio G, Pilotti M (2017) Numerical simulations of mountain winds in an alpine valley. Wind and Structures 24, 565-578.
Amicarelli A, Leuzzi G, Monti P, Alessandrini S, Ferrero E (2017) A stochastic Lagrangian micromixing model for the dispersion of reactive scalars in turbulent flows: role of concentration fluctuations and improvements to the conserved scalar theory under non-homogeneous conditions. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 17, 715-753.
Pelliccioni A, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2016). Wind-speed profile and roughness sublayer depth modelling in urban boundary layers. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 160, 225-248.
Amicarelli A., Leuzzi G, Monti P, Pepe N, Pirovano G (2015) Lagrangian micromixing modelling of reactive scalar statistics: surface pollutant sources in decaying grid turbulence. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 58, 251-267.
Di Bernardino A, Monti P, Leuzzi G, Querzoli G (2015) On the effect of the aspect ratio on flow and turbulence over a two-dimensional street canyon. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 58, 27-38.
Cantelli A, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2015) Numerical study of the urban geometrical representation impact in a surface energy budget model. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 15, 251-273.
Di Bernardino A, Monti P, Leuzzi G, Querzoli G (2015) Water-channel study of flow and turbulence past a 2D array of obstacles. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 155, 73-85.
Amicarelli A, Di Bernardino A, Catalano F, Leuzzi G, Monti P (2015) Analytical solutions of the balance equation for the scalar variance in one-dimensional turbulent flows under stationary conditions. Advances in Mathematical Physics Vol. 2015, Article ID 424827, 13 pages.
Pelliccioni A, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2015) An alternative wind profile formulation for urban areas in neutral conditions. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 15(1), 135-146.
Pelliccioni A, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2014) Roughness length parameterisation in urban boundary layers. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 55, 13-21.
Cantelli A, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2014) Development and integration of a subgrid urban surface scheme in a limited area model. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 55, 230-237.
Monti P, Fernando HJS, Princevac M (2014) Waves and turbulence in katabatic winds. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 14, 431-450.
Amicarelli A, Leuzzi G, Monti P (2012) Lagrangian micromixing models for concentration fluctuations: an overview. American Journal of Environmental Sciences 8(6), 577-590.
Cantelli A., Leuzzi G, Monti P, Viotti P (2012) An inverse modelling approach for estimating vehicular emissions in urban coastal areas of the Messina Strait. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 50, 274-282.
Amicarelli A, Salizzoni P, Leuzzi G, Monti P, Soulhac L, Cierco F-X, Leboeuf F (2012) Sensitivity analysis of a concentration fluctuation model to dissipation rate estimates. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 48, 164-173.
De Dominicis M, Leuzzi G, Monti P, Pinardi N, Poulain P-M (2012) Eddy diffusivity derived from drifter data for dispersion model applications. Ocean Dynamics 62, 1381-1398.
Pelliccioni A, Monti P, Gariazzo C, Leuzzi G (2012) Some characteristics of the urban boundary layer above Rome, Italy, and applicability of the Monin-Obukhov similarity. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 12, 405-428.
Leuzzi G, Amicarelli A, Monti P, Thomson DJ (2012) A 3D Lagrangian dispersion model LAGFLUM and its validation with a wind tunnel experiment. Atmospheric Environment 54, 117-126.
Cantelli A, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2011) An investigation of the urban heat island of Rome through a canyon based subgrid scheme. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 47, 239-247.
Amicarelli A, Leuzzi G, Monti P, Thomson DJ (2011) LAGFLUM, a stationary 3D Lagrangian stochastic numerical micromixing model for concentration fluctuations: validation in canopy turbulence, on the MUST wind tunnel experiment. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 47, 317-325.
Amicarelli A, Leuzzi G, Monti P, Thomson DJ (2011) A comparison between IECM and IEM Lagrangian models. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 44, 324-331.
Petenko I, Mastrantonio G, Viola A, Argentini S, Coniglio L, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2011) Local circulation diurnal patterns and their relationship with large-scale flows in a coastal area of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 139, 353-366.
Monti P, Leuzzi G (2010) Lagrangian models of dispersion in marine environment. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 10, 637-656.
Leuzzi G, Monti P, Amicarelli A (2010) An urban scale model for pollutant dispersion in Rome. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 40, 85-93.
Cantelli A, Monti P, Leuzzi G (2008) A subgrid surface scheme for the analysis of the urban heat island of Rome. Croatian Meteorological Journal 43, 354-358.
Amicarelli A, Leuzzi G, Monti P, Thomson DJ (2008) A stationary 3D Lagrangian stochastic numerical model for concentration fluctuations. Croatian Meteorological Journal 43, 387-391.
Querzoli G, Monti P, Cenedese A (2008) Image analysis applied to the study of mixing in a stably stratified shear layer. Experiments in Fluids 45, 633-642.
Monti P, Querzoli G, Cenedese A, Piccinini S (2007) Mixing properties of a stably stratified parallel shear layer. Physics of Fluids 19, 085104.
Monti P, Leuzzi G (2005) A numerical study of mesoscale airflow and dispersion over coastal complex terrain. International Journal of Environment and Pollution 25, 239-250.
Cenedese A, Monti P (2004) The Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in the Analysis of a Laboratory Simulation of Land- and Sea-Breeze Regimes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 510, 1-28.
Cenedese A, Monti P (2003) Interaction between an Inland Urban Heat Island and a Sea Breeze Flow: a Laboratory Study. Journal of Applied Meteorology 42(11), 1569-1583.
Monti P, Fernando HJS, Princevac M, Chan WC, Kowalewski TA, Pardyjak ER (2002) Observation of Flow and Turbulence in the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Over a Slope. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 59(17), 2513-2534.
Pardyjak ER, Monti P, Fernando HJS (2002) Flux Richardson number measurements in stable atmospheric shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 459, 307-316.
Cenedese A, Miozzi M, Monti P (2000) A laboratory investigation of land and sea breeze regimes. Experiments in Fluids 29, 291-299.
Leuzzi G, Monti P (1998) Particle trajectory-simulation of dispersion around a building. Atmospheric Environment 32, 203-214.
Leuzzi G, Monti P (1997) Breeze analysis by mast and Sodar measurements. Il Nuovo Cimento C 20, 343-359.
Monti P, Leuzzi G (1996) A closure to derive a three-dimensional well-mixed trajectory-model for non-Gaussian, inhomogeneous