International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage (ICID)

Position	Category	Period
Member	WG-NWREP	2024-2025
Member	WG-ENV	0-0

, Italy

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Positions, current:

From 19.04.2021 - Committee Member, International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance
From 03.02.2021 - Member of the Working Group on Environment (WG-ENV), International Commission for Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
From 01.09.2020 - Research Fellow in Agricultural hydraulics and watershed protection, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence
From 14.12.2020 - Editor, Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID)
From 14.04.2020 - PhD Co-supervisor, Phd in in Engineering (Infrastructure Development), The Malawi Polytechnic, University of Malawi
From 01.09.2017 - Member and co-founder, Water Harvesting Lab

Positions, past:

2018-2020 - PostDoc. Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence
2019-2020 - Lecturer. Training course for the Department of Rural Development of Myanmar: Water Management in arid and semi-arid areas (60 h, first edition 2019, second edition 2020), in the framework of GREAT (Economic, Environmental and Territory Resources Management) Project (AID no. 10942) – Funding Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, AICS). Terres des Hommes Italia NGO, Myanmar. Teaching activity in English
2019 - Assistant Lecturer (Supporto alla Didattica). Course in Appropriate Environmental Technologies for Resources-limited Countries (3 ECTS, 33 h). University of Brescia, Italy. Teaching activity in English
2017-2019 - Short Term Consultant, ARS Progetti SPA. Master Planning Consultant Mezyad Desert Park, Al Ain - Jebel Hafit UNESCO Heritage Site
2017-2019 - Short Term Consultant. The World Bank, Italy – Burundi – Rwanda
2015-2016 - Water Sector Coordinator. AICS - Italian Development Cooperation Agency, Office of Khartoum, Sudan

Education:

2018, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with Honors. Sustainable Management of Agricultural Forestry and Food Resources, specialisation Agricultural and Forest Engineering. University of Florence, Italy.
2014, MSc in Environmental Engineering 110/110 cum laude. University of Florence, Italy

Awards:

2019. Roland Schlich Travel Support award for EGU 2019. European Geosciences Union (EGU) - International
2018. Honorary Mention – Prize Evaristo “Ivo” Ricchetti 2018 for young researchers - XIII Meeting of the Hydrogeology and IT-Geosciences sections of the Italian Society of Geosciences - National
2017. PhD student award “Adriano Guarnieri” XI International AIIA Conference “Biosystems Engineering addressing the human challenges of the 21st Century” – Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering - National
2014. Thesis Award “CeTAmb LAB” 2014, 1st Prize. Special Section “Water as Common Good: Appropriate Technologies for the province of Brescia and International Cooperation”. Università degli Studi di Brescia – National

Dr. Giulio Castelli