Young Academics Award - Prix des jeunes diplômés

Sustainable Water Management in the Alps

Award-winning theses

The prizes for the Young Academics Award of the Alpine Convention in its 2019 edition have been awarded to:

1. Marta Zaniolo (IT): “Design and application of drought indexes in highly regulated water systems”
2. Marina Amadori (IT): “Characterisation of transport phenomena in Lake Garda through integrative hydrodynamic and meteorological modelling”
3. Gianluca Antonino Vassallo (DE): “Design and development of a living green wall for greywater treatment”

Special Prizes 

Additionally, three special prizes have been awarded by the Alpine Convention InfoPoints: 

• Kim Ferjančič (SI): “Fish passability assessment of transverse water obstacles in the Bača river” (Infopoint Tolmin)
• Giovanni Martino Bombelli (IT): “The influence of climate change on hydro power production of large reservoirs in Lombardy” (Infopoint Morbegno)
• Michele Bigoni (IT): “Validation of guidelines for groundwater quantitative status assessment: application to Aosta Valley” (Infopoint Grand Paradis)

Jurors 

• Antonio Ballarin (IT): Professor of Environmental Physics, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Catholic University Milan;
• Leo Füreder (AT): Head of the Research Group River and Conservation Research, University of Innsbruck;
• Emmanuel Reynard (FR): Professor of physical geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne;
• Mimi Urbanc (SI): Assistant Director, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana.

Call: Sustainable Water management in the Alps (closed)