FACCHI ARIANNA

Since 2025, she has been a Full Professor of Agricultural Hydraulics and Hydraulic-Forestry Engineering (AGRI-04/A) in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – Production, Territory, Agroenergy (DiSAA) at the University of Milan (UNIMI), where she previously served as an Associate Professor and Researcher. In 2003, she earned her Ph.D. in Rural Engineering (Specialization: Water Resources Management) from the University of Milan. In 1997, she graduated with honors in Environmental Sciences from the University of Milan-Bicocca.
Her research interests focus on the planning and management of water resources for irrigation through the application of agro-hydrological models to simulate water flows in the soil-plant-atmosphere system at the farm plot scale, at the irrigation system and watershed scales (including coupling with aquifer flow models), and the use of the most advanced monitoring tools for measuring water flows at various spatial scales (eddy covariance, TDR and FDR probes, ecophysiological measurements, wireless sensor networks, UAV-mounted sensors, etc.). She is a member of EurAgEng and the European Geophysical Union. She serves as a reviewer and editor for prestigious international scientific journals. Her scientific output is documented by over 100 publications. H-index: 25 (Scopus).
She has taught in university courses at UNIMI and in national and European master’s programs on the following main topics: precision irrigation, soil hydrology, planning and management of water resources for irrigation at the district and watershed scales, agro-hydrological modeling, agro-hydrological monitoring, water quality, design of irrigation systems for agricultural and ornamental green areas, and remote sensing and GIS applications in hydrology.