About the Authors

Giuseppe Gambolati is professor of Numerical Methods in Engineering in the School of Engineering of the University of Padova. He is the author of about 300 scientific papers in internationally refereed journals, books and proceedings, and two books of Numerical Analysis and Numerical Methods in Engineering and Applied Sciences which are used as textbooks for both undergraduate and graduate courses in the University of Padova. With Pietro Teatini he is the author of the book “VENICE SHALL RISE AGAIN” (Elsevier, 100 pp, 2014) that provides an overview of the project to raise Venice by injecting seawater into a 650‑1000 deep geologic formations underlying the lagoon. He was the recipient of the 2008 IACMAG excellent contributions award for “significant contributions in research, academic activities and professional service in different regions of the globe”. He is FELLOW of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for “his unique and seminal contributions to geomechanical aspects of subsurface fluid flow”. He was also appointed “Commendatore” of the order to the merit of the Italian Republic by the President Giorgio Napolitano. His research and professional activity are mainly concerned with studies of natural and anthropogenic land subsidence, groundwater flow, and subsurface contaminant transport, and the development, validation and implementation of the corresponding numerical methods and models in real world problems.

Dr. Pietro Teatini is associate professor in Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. In 1994 he received the International Award “Paolo Gatto”, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for the modeling of the aquifer system underlying the Venice Lagoon. He is co‑founder of M3E S.r.l., a spin‑off of the University of Padova, associated researcher at the Italian National Research Council, and associated scientists at the Key Lab of Earth Fissure and Geologic Disasters (Nanjing, China), and Key Lab of Land Subsidence Monitoring and Prevention (Shanghai, China). Currently, he is chair of the IAHS/UNESCO‑IHP “Land Subsidence International Initiative ‑ LaSII”. His research interests concern modeling geomechanical issues related to fluid withdrawal and injection from/into the subsurface, specifically land subsidence and uplift, induced seismicity, and aseismic earth fissuring accompanying land subsidence. He also focusses his research interest on the evolution of managed peatlands and transitional environments. He has more than 130 papers in peer reviewed international journals.