About

Dr Nadia Penna received her Ph.D. in “Hydraulic Engineering for the Environment and the Territory” in 2013 from the Università della Calabria (Rende, Italy). From 2013 to 2015, she worked at the Università della Calabria (Rende, Italy) on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of flow fields at fluvial confluences, in collaboration with the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal), where she spent 8 months, the Università di Enna ‘Kore’ (Enna, Italy) and the Università di Palermo (Palermo, Italy). From 2016 to 2018, she worked at the Università del Salento (Lecce, Italy) on 3D analysis of local scouring induced by a rotating ship propeller. Since 2018, she is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Università della Calabria (Rende, Italy) and her research activity is based on: turbulence in open-channel flows on water-worked and screeded gravel beds - in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Kharagpur, India); turbulence characteristics of flows through emergent rigid vegetation; interactions between turbulent flows and structures; statistical characterization of gravel-bed roughness structures; sediment transport and deposition. As regards the teaching experience, from 2016, she is Lecturer of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions at the Università degli Studi eCampus (Novedrate, Italy). During 2019 she worked at the University of Dundee (Scotland, UK) for tutorial and laboratory support in Fluid Mechanics. From 2019, she is also Teaching Assistant in Fluvial Hydraulics at the Università della Calabria (Rende, Italy). In 2020, she obtained the National Scientific Qualification for the Associate Professorship in Italian Universities. She published several scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented many works at international and national conferences.

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Universities and Academia

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her research activity is based on: turbulence in open-channel flows on water-worked and screeded gravel beds - in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Kharagpur, India); turbulence characteristics of flows through emergent rigid vegetation; interactions between turbulent flows and structures; statistical characterization of gravel-bed roughness structures; sediment transport and deposition

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