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Francesco Dell'Aira, MSc

Ph.D Student
University of Memphis

Francesco Dell’Aira is a Ph.D. student in the Civil Engineering – Water Resources program at the University of Memphis (U.S.A.).
His main project, funded by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), involves updating the regional equations for peak flow estimation in Tennessee urban streams, to account for changes in urbanization that have occurred in recent decades. Within this framework, he is focusing on alternative GIS-based approaches for quantifying the level of urbanization that can incorporate information on the hydrologic connectivity across impervious areas and the stream network. Other work involves analysis of large-sample hydrologic datasets to study similarities and regional variability in hydrological properties across different watersheds, and the improvement of established optimization approaches for unit hydrograph derivation.
He graduated from the bachelor’s degree of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Master’s degree of Water and Transportation Civil Engineering at University of Catania (Italy), in 2016 and 2019 respectively. For his bachelor’s degree dissertation, he worked on the estimation of loads on onshore marine structures due to the wave motion, by physical modeling. For his master’s thesis, he developed a new approach for the integrated planning of upgrade and rehabilitation interventions on water distribution networks, which then published with the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

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