Prof. Pierluigi ClapsChairman
Polytechnic of Turin
Full Professor of Water Engineering
at the Politecnico di Torino. Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering (1990) at
the Università di Napoli. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian
CNR-GNDCI group. His expertise is in the area of Hydrology of River Basins,
particularly in relation to floods and water resources assessment and
to stochastic streamflow modeling, with more than 70 papers published.
He leads research teams working on projects concerning "Runoff production
in mountainous river basins" and "Prediction in Ungauged Basins" (MIUR-PRIN
2005).