Diego Vicinanza

Diego Vicinanza Associate Professor at Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Department of Engineering) e Gruppo Nazionale per la Ricerca sull'Ambiente Costiero, GNRAC.

Long research activities in Coastal Engineering and Morphodynamics. His research interests are mainly energy and environment. The energy part is linked to the development of innovative technologies for the production of marine renewable energy and their integration with traditional breakwaters. The environmental part is focused on solutions / strategies for the mitigation of coastal risk from flooding and erosion as a function of climate change. Research on innovative solutions of coastal defences with low environmental impact, environmental restoration and bathing represent the topics currently ongoing. He is Research Fellow of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and National Council for Research (CNR-INM). He is member of CoNISMa (Italian National Inter-University Consortium for Marine Sciences) and part of the Directive Committee and of the Administrative Council. He was/is involved in many national/international competitive research projects. Author/Co-author of 173 papers (SCOPUS h-index 21, 1073 citations, 42 international journal papers with impact factor). Reviewer and member of Editorial Board for several international journals. See a complete list of the national and international research projects and papers at ORCID Researcher ID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2033-1902