UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry
viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
ph: +39 (049) 8272677
fax: +39 (049) 8272750
skype: paolopaolo525
e-mail: tarolli.paolo@gmail.com
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Full Professor, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF), University of Padova.
Research interests include soil and water conservation, agricultural water management, hydro-geomorphology, remote sensing and GIS, with current work on climate change, drought and water scarcity, soil salinization and saltwater intrusion, steep-slope and terraced agriculture, water harvesting and nature-based solutions.
• Advisor for South and East Asia, University of Padova
• Member, Governing Council, Galilean School of Higher Education, University of Padova
• President, Soil and Water Conservation Division, Italian Society of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA)
• Executive Editor, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
• Leader of an international research group of 10 early-career researchers
• International research evaluator, with 250+ proposals assessed for the European Commission and
major European funding agencies
Author of 230 Scopus-indexed articles. Google Scholar h-index: 70; citations: 15,488; 130+ policy citations (Overton).
Listed among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists since 2020; top 0.16% in Geological & Geomatics Engineering in the latest Elsevier/Stanford dataset, excluding self-citations.
Academic appointments have included universities in Europe, Asia and the United States, with current appointments in Romania, the United States and Uzbekistan.
Research interests include soil and water conservation, agricultural water management, hydro-geomorphology, remote sensing and GIS, with current work on climate change, drought and water scarcity, soil salinization and saltwater intrusion, steep-slope and terraced agriculture, water harvesting and nature-based solutions.
• Advisor for South and East Asia, University of Padova
• Member, Governing Council, Galilean School of Higher Education, University of Padova
• President, Soil and Water Conservation Division, Italian Society of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA)
• Executive Editor, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
• Leader of an international research group of 10 early-career researchers
• International research evaluator, with 250+ proposals assessed for the European Commission and
major European funding agencies
Author of 230 Scopus-indexed articles. Google Scholar h-index: 70; citations: 15,488; 130+ policy citations (Overton).
Listed among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists since 2020; top 0.16% in Geological & Geomatics Engineering in the latest Elsevier/Stanford dataset, excluding self-citations.
Academic appointments have included universities in Europe, Asia and the United States, with current appointments in Romania, the United States and Uzbekistan.



