Michele Mossa is professor of Hydraulics at the Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy), with a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering for the Environment and Land. He is chief scientist of the Coastal Engineering Laboratory – LIC, member of the board of directors of the National Consortium of Universities for Marine Sciences (CoNISMa) for the Polytechnic University of Bari, member of the Fluid Mechanics Committee of the International Association for Hydro Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), elected representative of Academic Senate of the Polytechnic University of Bari, coordinator of the PhD course in "Environmental and Building Risk and Development", Deputy Rector of the Polytechnic University of Bari for the Research and Technology Transfer. He served as a member of the IAHR council, president of the IAHR Education and Professional Development Section, reviewer as expert in Hydraulics and Oceanography of the research project grant applications of the Research Council of Norway and of the OeAD (Österreichische Austauschdienst) GmbH Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research. He is associate editors of Scientific Reports - Nature, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Engineering & Computational Mechanics, Journal of Multidisciplinary Science, Insight - Civil Engineering, Global Journal of Engineering Science and Researches, SCIRES-IT - SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology, Water, Heliyon. The main topics of his research group are relevant with the Environmental and Maritime Hydraulics. He is authors of many papers and books and he is actively involved in international and Italian research projects. For further details, visit the web site: http://www.michelemossa.it/en/ For papers, see also: RESEARCH GATE: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michele_Mossa GOOGLE SCHOLAR: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=aJ2G2V0AAAAJ&hl=it MENDELEY: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/michele-mossa/ RESEARCHER ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4420-2016 IMPACTSTORY: https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-6477-8714 Expertise: Maritime Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Hydraulics, Civil Engineering, Sediment Transport, River Engineering, Coastal Oceanography, Coastal Sciences, Coastal Research and Management, Marine Sciences, Ocean Currents and Circulation, Fluid Mechanics, Hydrodynamic Modeling, Hydrodynamics, Turbulence, Environmental Engineering, Water Engineering, Physical Oceanography, Estuaries, Hydraulic Structures, Wave Hydrodynamics, Oceanographic Instrumentation, Coastal Geomorphology, Ocean, Ocean Modeling, Environmental Impact Assessment, Ocean Currents, Coastal Management, Coastal Processes, Hydraulic Engineering, Boundary Layer, Environment, Wastewater, Rivers, Waves, Vegetation Analysis, Vegetation Dynamics, Tidal Waves