Academic appointments, scientific responsibilities and awards

17/12/2024: In the "Attilio Alto" Aula Magna, the Rector of the Polytechnic University of Bari, Professor Francesco Cupertino, presented the silver seals of the Polytechnic University of Bari to the outgoing Senators and Councilors to thank them for their service to our institution. Among the recipients was Professor Michele Mossa, recognized for his second three-year term as Senator.

05/11/2024: Professor Michele Mossa participated in the Global Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (GEST 2024), held in London from November 4-6, 2024, where he presented his research group's activities on environmental topics and flows interacting with riparian vegetation. Professor Mossa received a certificate of appreciation for his contribution.

1/11/2024: Appointed deputy editor of the journal ICE Proceedings - Engineering and Computational Mechanics
ISSN 1755-0777 | E-ISSN 1755-0785 https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jcien

11/10/2024: Prof. Michele Mossa was invited to give a presentation in the session "Science at the Heart of the State", titled "Scientific Research as a Driver of the Country's Development" – organized by the Italian Scientist Association (ISA), as part of the BioNext Research session at the Taranto Biotech Days.

17/9/2024: Chair, together with Prof. Barbara Zanuttigh, of Session 24 (Part I): Hydraulics and Maritime and Coastal Works in a Changing Climate at the XXXIX National Conference on Hydraulics and Hydraulic Structures (IDRA 2024).

16/9/2024: Within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline (career-long data are updated to end-of-2022 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2023). The list was drafted by researchers from Stanford University: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2024), “August 2024 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Elsevier Data Repository, V6, https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.7

13/9/2024: Chair of session 17.1 - Wave Modelling (Groundwater), Room A: AULA MAGNA at the ICCE 2024 Rome, 38th International Conference on Coastal Engineering (Rome, September 8-14, 2024, Pontifical Gregorian University)."

5/6/2024: Invited moderator / chair of the following session: THEME B: Estuaries, Coasts and Ports - Coastal dynamics 05/June/2024 at the 8th IAHR EUROPE CONGRESS, Lisbon, 4-7 June 2024.

3/6/2024: Invitation to Partake in the Discussion on How Ecohydrology Provides the Profound Scientific Background for Developing Cost-Efficient, Advanced Nature Based Solutions (NbS) (UNESCO - TRANSDISCIPLINARY ECOHYDROLOGY SCIENTIFIC FRAMEWORK FOR COST-EFFICIENT, ADVANCED NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS, Side Event at the 26th Session of the IHP Council, UNESCO HQ, Paris).

9/4/2024: Keynote lecture at the International Forum on Sustainable Coastal Engineering and Environment - SCEE 2024 (Macao, China, April 8-9, 2024).

5/4/2024: Participation in the event "Science at the Center of the State" (Angiolillo Hall, Wedekind Palace, Rome) for the delivery to the Prime Minister of the Science Manifesto, a document elaborated by ISA members addressing some of the main topics of interest of our time.

28/3/2024: Invited speaker all'IAHR Global Online Dialogue on Water Engineering Pathways Towards Net Zero

22/03/2024: Invited speaker at the Conference River Management and Ecology (Salzburg, Austrai, 21 and 22 March 2024)

29/1/2024: Keynote speaker at the IAHR Ecohydraulics forum be co-organized by Tsinghua University,
China Huadian Corporation, IAHR Beijing Office, and Beijing Normal University (Lijiang, China, 28-31 January 2024).

30/10/2023: Associate Editor of the Journal of Ecohydraulics (https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=tjoe20; Print ISSN: 2470-5357 Online ISSN: 2470-5365)

30/10/2023: Member of the Editorial Board of Dynamics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/dynamics; ISSN 2673-871).

30/10/2023: Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, the international honor society of science and engineering.

4/10/2023: Within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline (career-long data are updated to end-of-2022 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2022). The list was  drafted by researchers from Stanford University: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2023), “October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Elsevier Data Repository, V6, https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.6

6/9/2023: invited talk at the 1st International Workshop on Scour around Hydraulic and Coastal Structures (SHCS), September 4-6, 2023, Nanjing, China.

23/8/2023: awarded as Fellow Member of IAHR (unanimously approved by the IAHR Council). IAHR Fellow Membership is a new distinction introduced in 2023 to recognise IAHR members for their outstanding contributions to hydro-environment engineering and research and to the development of IAHR.
The award was presented to Prof. Michele Mossa during the IAHR World Congress (Vienna, Austria) on 23 August 2023 at the end of the session on ecohydraulics of which he was convener.

23/8/2023: Convener of the High-Level Panel on “Ecohydraulics”. Keynote speaker: Maciej Zalewski, Polish Academy of Sciences under the auspices of UNESCO. High Level Panel: 1) Prof. Peter Goodwin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USA; 2) Prof. Sung-Uk Choi, epartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; 3) Prof. Qiuwen Chen, director of Center for Eco-Environmental Research, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute; 4) Prof. Christoph Hauer, Institute of Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research, BOKU, Vienna, Austria.

7/3/2023: Elected President of the Technical Committee on Ecohydraulics of the IAHR (International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research). The results of the lectures are published on the "News section" of the IAHR homepage: Election results
The updated web page of the Technical Committee of Ecohydraulics is the following: Technical Committee Ecohydraulics

16/1/2023-15/1/2024: Renewal of the association with the CNR-IRSA (decree of the director of the CNR - IRSA of 22/12/2022).

19/12/2022: The most voted of the professor of the course in Civil and Environmental Engineering was prof. Michele Mossa.

6/5/2022: Appointed member of the Board of the Linguistic Center of the Polytechnic University of Bari (Rector's Decree no. 544 of 6 May 2022).

22/4/2022: Plenary speaker at the Global Summit on Environmental Science and Applications on the contribution of Hydraulics on the effects of climate change (The Scientistt, EnScience2022, Tokyo, Japan, April 21-23, 2022, virtual event).

14/3/2022: Collaboration with the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Founded by Giovanni Treccani S.p.A. for the online section "Enciclopedia".

21/12/2021: On the occasion of the Christmas Concert of the Polytechnic University of Bari, which took place on Tuesday 21 December 2021, there was the "Engineering Project" award ceremony. The most voted of the teachers of the three-year degree course in Civil and Environmental Engineering was prof. Michele Mossa.

2/12/2021: Invited keynote lecture “Alteration of spreading processes in natural flows and interaction between waves and vegetation in coastal zones in times of climate change", 2nd IAHR Young Professionals Congress, online 30 Nov.-2 Dec 2021 (https://iahr.org/index/detail/524).

19/11/2021: Receives the silver seal of the Polytechnic University of Bari for the first three years in the role of Senator.

19/10/2021: Within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline during the calendar year 2020. The list was drafted by three researchers from Stanford University: Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P.A. (2021), “August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Mendeley Data, V3, https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.3

1/10/2021: Becomes associated with the CNR-IRSA for research collaboration (decree of the director of the CNR - IRSA of 22/9/2021).

14/9/2021: Appointed member of the University Commission in matters of incompatibility and extra-institutional positions (Rector's Decree no. 676).

9/7/2021: Appointed by the MUR (Ministry of University and Research) in the Commission for National Scientific Qualification for the Competition Sector 08 / A1-Hydraulics, Hydrology, Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions (art.8, paragraph 1, ddn 251 of 29 January 2021).

30/6/2021: Elected representative of the teaching staff for the role of the Full Professors of the Area CUN 08, Civil Engineering and Architecture, and others not part of the Areas 01, 02, 03 and 09, in the Academic Senate of the Polytechnic University of Bari, for the academic triennium 2018-2021 (Rectorial decree no. 507 of 6th July 2021).

22/6/2021: On the occasion of the World Environment Day (June 5) and the Oceans Day (June 8), Audible, an Amazon group company, created a podcast series dedicated to frontier projects and actions implemented by 8 Italian regions to adapt the consequences of climate change (Calabria, Lazio, Campania, Trentino, Puglia, Umbria, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany).
It is a journey to discover communities that work every day to make the beautiful country more sustainable and respectful of the environment. For the episode dedicated to the Puglia region, there is an intervention of prof. Michele Mossa, where the LIC - Coastal Engineering Laboratory is described.
For promo and press release use this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/52t3qtwagvz8n4g/AAAIDmYCeoo8o31GhXIW0ZIWa?dl=0e
To register (for the first 30 days free) and listen to podcasts, use this link:
https://www.audible.it/pd/Adaptation-Italia-Full-Series-Audiolibri/374804674X?source_code=AITtm15205312101M4

21/5/2021: Invited by CNR - IRSA (National Research Council - Water Research Institute) to hold a seminar entitled "The protection of the marine environment in the context of PNR 2021-2027: the case of the alteration of dispersion processes in natural flows and the interaction between waves and vegetation in times of climate change ".

15/12/2020: Appointed President of the Evaluation Commission referred to art. 4 of the "Regulation for the discipline of the remuneration of permanent researchers' professors, pursuant to art. 6, paragraph 14, of Law no. 240/2010" (Rector's Decree n. 830 of 9/12/2020).

16/10/2020: Within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline during the calendar year 2019. The list drafted by three researchers from Stanford University: Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020), Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918.

24/4/2020: Appointed expert member of the ministerial commission for the preparation of the National Research Program - PNR 2021-2027 for the section "Knowledge and technological innovation and sustainable management of marine ecosystems", in the area "Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture, environment ".

03/03/2020: Person in charge of the Polytechnic University of Bari for the framework program agreement signed with the University of Tennessee (USA).

19/12/2019: On the occasion of the Reunion of Poliba Alumni and the Christmas Concert of the Polytechnic University of Bari, which took place on Thursday 19 December 2019, there was the "Engineering Project" award ceremony. The most voted of the teachers of the three-year degree course in Civil and Environmental Engineering was prof. Michele Mossa.

Since 22nd July 2019 - present: Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing" (ISSN printed: 1555-256X; ISSN online: 1555-2578).

17/4/2019: He was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation of the Engineering Center for Care of Earth (Ecce) Workshop, Catholic University of America, Washington, April 17, 2019. Motivation of the award: The issue of Caring for the Earth is something that we need to be proactive about and we need everyone involved in this issue; prominent scientists, engineers and leaders will be awarded for their work to generate solutions for the wellbeing of humanity.

17/4/2019: Plenary speaker at the 11th International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, Pryzbyla Center, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA, 16-17 April 2019. Web site.

10/1/2019: Person in charge of the Polytechnic University of Bari for the framework program agreement signed with the University of Notre Dame (USA).

19/10/2018: Person in charge of the Polytechnic University of Bari for the Erasmus+ agreement with TU Wien (Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Vienna, Austria).

18/10/2018: Person in charge of the Polytechnic University of Bari for the framework program agreement signed with LEGI UMR 5519 CNRS, Grenoble INP, Universite Grenoble Alpes.

20/8/2018-3/9/2018: Research project "JEts interacting with VEgetation in Rotating Basin (JEVERB)", funded by the EU under the European H2020 Hydralab + Adaptation for Climate Change program. The project was funded on the basis of an international competitive call with revision (call of April 2017, expiring on 23 June 2017, estimated budget: € 30,000). Participating research units: CoNISMa-DICATECh of the Polytechnic of Bari (I), University of Bozen (I), University of Palermo (I), University of Hamburg (D), University of Twente (NL), Technion (Haifa- Israel) . The project activity will be carried out at the LEGI (Laboratory of Geophysical Flows and Industrial Interest), Grenoble, on a rotating Coriolis platform (http://www.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/web/spip.php? rubrique10 & lang = en).

Since 11th August 2018 - present: Member of the Advisory Board of the "Journal of Multidisciplinary Science" (ISSN: 2571-8800). See the web site: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/J/editors

28 June 2018: elected representative of the teaching staff for the role of the Full Professors of the Area CUN 08, Civil Engineering and Architecture, and others not part of the Areas 01, 02, 03 and 09, in the Academic Senate of the Polytechnic University of Bari, for the academic triennium 2018-2021 (Rectorial decree no. 496 of 6th September 2018).

Since 21st June 2018 - present: Associate Editor of the "Journal of Hydraulic Research" (Print ISSN: 0022-1686 Online ISSN: 1814-2079). See the web site: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tjhr20

Since 17th May 2018 - present: Editor of the journal "Insight - Civil Engineering" (ISSN: 2630-4716). See the web site: http://insight.piscomed.com/index.php/ICE/about/editorialTeam

Since 18th February 2018 - present: Associate Editor of the journal "Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFMC)" (ISSN: 1567-7419 for print version and ISSN: 1573-1510 for electronic version). See the web site: http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/journal/10652

Since 8th February 2018 - present: member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Global Journal of Engineering Science and Researches" (ISSN 2348-8034). See the web site: http://www.gjesr.com/index.html

Since 18th January 2018 - present: member of the Editorial Board of the journal "SCIRES-IT - SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology" (e-ISSN 2239-4303 online). See the web site: http://www.sciresit.it/

December 22, 2017: Award fellowship named Gii Placement in Water Engineering of the 2017 call (awarding institution: Italian Group of Hydraulics - Gii). One of the three scholarships was awarded to Eng. Davide Tognin, "who will carry out a research activity at the Coastal Engineering Laboratory (LIC) and at the DICATECh hydraulic laboratory of the Polytechnic University of Bari under the supervision of Prof. Michele Mossa. The experimental runs will be carried out on a vegetated channel with a wave generation system". See the site: http://www.gii-idraulica.net/assegnate-le-borse-gii-placement-water-engineering-2017

17 November 2017: Invited lecture “The role of physical models and field monitoring in Environmental and Maritime Hydraulics” as associate editor of Water journal at the Water and Development Congress & Exhibition of the International Water Association (IWA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2017.

Since 15 November 2017: Deputy member of the Disciplinary Board of the Polytechnic University of Bari (Rectoral Decree No. 527 of 15/11/2017).

Since 4th September 2017 - present: member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Scientific Reports" (Nature research journal, ISSN 2045-2322 online). See the web site: https://www.nature.com/srep/

7 March 2017: Elected representative of teaching staff and technical, administrative and library staff in the DICATECh Board of the Polytechnic University of Bari, for the three academic years 2015/2018.

Since 15th February 2017 - present: member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Water" (ISSN 2073-4441). See the web site: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/editors

3 November 2016: The book Mossa M. & Petrillo A.F, Idraulica, C.E.A, Milan, 2013 was a finalist of the First National University Publishing Award (year 2016) of the Italian Association of the Book (for details see this link: http://www.michelemossa.it/en/news-and-events/news/hydraulics/623).

Since 24th October 2016 - present: member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Heliyon" (ISSN 2405-8440). See the web site: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/heliyon/
http://www.heliyon.com/

From 23 October 2015 to 23 October 2016: Award fellowship named Gii Placement in Water Engineering of the announcement 2015 (awarding institution: Italian Group of Hydraulics - Gii). One of the two grants was awarded to Eng. Federica Buriani (with supervisors prof. Michele Mossa and prof. Maurizio Brocchini) to carry out research on the turbulence of breaking waves at the Laboratory of Coastal Engineering (LIC) of the DICATECh of the Technical University of Bari.

Since 1st November 2015 - present: member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Engineering & Computational Mechanics" (ISSN 1755-0777; E-ISSN 1755-0785). See the web site: http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/toc/jencm/current

Since 2015 - present: Scientific Director of the LIC - Coastal Engineering Laboratory (Decree of appointment no. 22 of 17/2/2015).

Since 7 January 2015 - present: editor of the journal "Scienze e Ricerche" (ISSN 2283-5873).

12 May 2014 - 30 September 2015: Coordinator of the first level degree of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Since 5 June 2014 - present: Coordinator of the PhD course in "Environmental and Building Risk and Development".

Since 4 July 2013 - present: Member of the Research Commission of the Civil, Environmental, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh) of the Technical University of Bari.

Since the academic year 2013-2014 - present: Deputy Rector of the Technical University of Bari for the Research and Technology Transfer (Decree of appointment no. 479/2013).

Since 26 March 2013 - present: Representative of the Technical University of Bari in the Council of the National Consortium for Marine Sciences (Co.NISMa.).

10 September 2012: plenary speaker at IDRA 2012 XXXIII Congress of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions (Brescia, 10-15 September 2012).

Since 24 April 2012 - present: Member of the Member of the National Council of the Italian Hydrotechnique Association.

Since 18 January 2012 - present: editor of the journal "L'Acqua".

Since 9 November 2011 - 2015: member of the Workgroup of the Interpolytechnic School of Doctorate (PhD program of high qualification) of the three Italian Technical Universities (Turin, Milan and Bari) for the aerea of "Environmental and Territorial Safety and Control" http://sipd.polito.it/scuola_en.html 

Since July 2011 - July 2015: member of IAHR council.

2010: Reviewer for project applications presso OeAD (Österreichische Austauschdienst) GmbH. - OeAD (Österreichische Austauschdienst) GmbH. Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH). 

September 2009 - July 2011: president of the IAHR Education and Professional Development Section (IAHR EPD Section).
 
Since September 2009 - July 2015: Editor of IAHR magazine Hydrolink.
 
27/10/2008 - 31/12/2013: coordinator of the Research Doctorate in Environmental Engineering.
 
Dec. 2007 - 2009: secretary of the IAHR Education and Professional Development (EPD) Section.
 
Since December 2007 - present: person in charge of the Coastal and Marittime Hydraulics of National Consortium of Italian Universities for the Sea Sciences (www.conisma.it).

22 Oct. 2007 - September 2009: member of Rector's workgroup for the new engineering courses, Rectorial Decree no. 270, 22 October 2007.

3 October 2007: External Examiner of a Doctor of Philosophy dal Research and Research Training Division of the University of Queensland.

Since 13 August 2007 - present: Project Examiner of Research Council of Norway in assessing grant applications for the international project in Hydraulics and Maritime Hydraulics.

June 2007 - 31/12/2010: president of the Apulian Section of the Italian Association of Hydrotechnique.

Since 2007 – present: reviewer as expert in Hydraulics and Oceanography of the research project grant applications of the Research Council of Norway.
 
Since 2007: Editor of “The Open Ocean Engineering Journal”.

23/1/2007 – 30/9/2009: member of Library Council, 2nd Faculty of Engineering, Bari Technical University (published in Rectorial Decree no. 48, 23 January 2007).

28 June 2006: appointed advisor for promotion of rank of Professor by the Committee of the Senate of the University of Queensland.

Trimester January-March 2006: the paper De Serio, F., and Mossa, M., "Experimental study on the hydrodynamics of regular breaking waves", Coastal Engineering, Volume 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-113 (ISSN: 0378-3839, Imprint: ELSEVIER, Impact factor 2005: 1.009, Journal Citation Reports® 2005, published by Thomson Scientific) is mentioned by Science Direct Top 25 Hottest.

1/10/2006 - 30/9/2009: member of Rector's workgroup of the project Arianna (MIUR - Politecnico di Bari) for students' guidance.

1/10/2006 – 30/9/2009: member of the Planning & Management Committee, 2nd Faculty of Engineering, Bari Technical University.
 
1/10/2006 – 30/9/2009: Head of Course Council for Civil and Environmental Engineering at the 2nd Faculty of Engineering, Bari Technical University (published in Rectorial Decree no. 359, 6 July 2006).
 
19/4/2006 to 30/9/2006: Deputy to Director of the Department of Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development (published in Rectorial Decree no. 203, 19 April 2006).
 
Since 2005 - present: Editor of the web resource for the storage and dissemination of photographic, animation and video material relating to hydraulics, hydrology and water resources IAHR Media Library www.iahrmedialibrary.net
 
Since 2005 - present: Member of the Fluid Mechanics Committee of IAHR www.iahr.org.
 
2003 - 2006: Deputy to Head of Course Council for Environmental and Territorial Engineering, 2nd Faculty of Engineering, Bari Technical University.

XVIth Session - present: Member of the Teaching Committee for Research Doctorate in Environmental Engineering, teaching modules on Environmental Hydraulics.
 
XVIth Session - 26/10/2008: secretary and deputy coordinator of the Research Doctorate in Environmental Engineering.