Biographical Sketch of SML

Born and educated in Florence, Stefano Marsili-Libelli received a cum laude degree (laurea) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa in 1973. Later in the same year he joined the University of Florence on a post-graduate grant and has served in the Faculty of Engineering ever since, first as a technical assistant, then as a tenure Faculty member as an associate professor (since 1983) and, since 2000, as a Full Professor of environmental system modelling.

Faculty responsibilities
    • Founding member of the Environmental Engineering curriculum
    • Member of the steering committee of the Environmental Engineering curriculum
    • Director of the Laboratory of Environmental Process Control
    • Faculty member of the PhD curriculum in Hydrodynamics and Environmental Modelling
      (Consortium among the Universities of Padua, Florence, Genoa and Trento) (until 2005)
    • Faculty member of the PhD curriculum of Sanitary Engineering (University of Rome 2) (since 2005).

Teaching

  • Modelling of Environmental Systems (graduate, Environmental Engineering curriculum)
  • Control of Wastewater treatment processes (graduate, Environmental Engineering curriculum)
  • Applied Ecology (undergraduate, Environmental Engineering curriculum)
    • Research
        1 - Wastewater treatment process models
            • Activated sludge modelling.
            • Anaerobic digestion modelling.
            • Solid waste composting fuzzy modelling
            • Modelling and fuzzy control of continuous-flow biological wastewater treatment processes.
            • Hierarchical control for set-points coordination in biological nutrient removal
            • Pattern recognition techniques for the diagnosis of the anaerobic digestion process
            • Sequencing Batch Reactors (SBR) optimal switching by fuzzy reasoning.
            • Fuzzy control of process units, e.g. hydraulic overloads or recycle/waste sludge management
            • Development of respirometric techniques and equipment
            • Modelling of diffusion and kinetics in horizontal subsurface constructed wetlands.
     
  •     2 - Aquatic ecosystems modelling

    •         • River water quality modelling.
            • Georeferenced modelling of river water quality
            • Software platform for integrated water quality decision support systems.
            • Shallow water aquatic ecosystem modelling.
            • Lagoon modelling (nutrient cycling, 
              submerged vegetation growth and competition, 
              hydrodynamics - ecology interactions).

        3 - Parameter estimation of environmental models
            • Ad-hoc optimization methods for parameter estimation of ecological models.
            • Estimated parameters reliability through the numerical computation of confidence regions.

        4 - Fuzzy clustering of ecological data
            • Circadian cycle recognition through wavelet filtering and fuzzy clustering
            • Model patching by fuzzy pattern recognition.

    Editorial activities
            • Associate Editor of the Int. J. Water Science and Technology (since 2009).
            • Member of the Editorial Board of the Int. J. Environmental Modelling & Software (since 2004).

    Membership of scientific associations
            • International Environmental Modelling & Software society (iEMSs)
            • International Society of Ecological Modelling (ISEM)
            • International Water Association (IWA) since 1983
            • Italian Association for Automation (ANIPLA)

    Awards
            • The paper Checchi N., Giusti E., Marsili-Libelli S. (2007). PEAS: A toolbox to assess the accuracy of estimated parameters
               in environmental models.     Environmental Modelling & Software 22: 899 - 913,
               as awarded the Best Paper Award 2007 by the Int.J. Environmental Modelling & Software.
            • Biennial Medal awarded by the International Environmental Modelling & Software society (iEMSs) in 2008.
            • Nomination to iEMSs Fellow in 2008.
            • Best paper award granted by AssoAutomazione (Italian association for automation) in the area of 
              Technological Innovation in the Water Sector, 
               presented during the annual Forum for remote control of public utilities, Rome, October 2009.

    More details about these activities can be found in the research section and the main results are illustrated in the papers section. For a list of the current collaboration in Italy and abroad, please refere to the Collaborations page.
     

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