Giuseppe Oliveto Editor

Dr Manish Pandey graduated in Civil Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University, India. He completed his masters and doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Presently, Dr Pandey is Assistant Professor at NIT Warangal since 2019. He has more than 5 years teaching and research experience in experimental hydraulics and water resources engineering. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers and 20+ book chapters and conference proceeding papers.  He has guided 1 PhD and 5 M.Tech students. Presently he is guiding 4 PhD and 5 M.Tech students. He was also awarded MOST postdoctoral research grant in year 2018. He is an editorial board member of various national and international journals. Dr. Pandey is an active reviewer in several reputed peer-reviewed journals.

Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta is a sustainability risk management strategist working in the area of disaster management, environment and climate resilience for more than25 years with national, sub-national and business administrations. He is currently a full Professor and Head of India’s National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Division of Environment and Disaster Risk Management. He is Programme Director of the Centre for Excellence on Climate Resilience and implementing projects, viz. CAP-RES (with DST, under National Knowledge Mission on Climate Change), National Agriculture Disaster Management Plan (with Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare). He was a recipient of Excellence Award by the Society of Environmental & Occupational Health, and bestowed with IDRC Canada’s Think Tank Initiative Senior Fellowship 2011 for policy research.

Prof. Giuseppe Oliveto is Associate Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the School of Engineering of University of Basilicata (Italy). Since 1992 he has been carrying out theoretical and experimental studies encompassing: evolution and patterns of river networks, fluvial hydraulics, sediment transport, bridge hydraulics, and urban drainage hydraulics. He is author of more than 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He is an editorial board member of various national and international journals. He was recognized as outstanding reviewer by international journals. He has been awarded the Robert Alfred Carr Prize by the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) - London (UK) for the paper "Temporal scour evolution at non-uniform bridge piers" published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, Volume 170, October 2017.