Chiara ARRIGHI

Ruolo attuale:: Professore Associato
SSD:: CEAR-01/B - Costruzioni idrauliche e marittime e idrologia
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale (DICEA)

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Chiara ARRIGHI

Orario di ricevimento (aggiornato al 04/11/2025)

Il ricevimento degli studenti si svolge, previa richiesta effettuata tramite e-mail e in modalità in presenza o a distanza secondo necessità, nei giorni:

- lunedì ore 17.00-18.00

- venerdì ore 10.30-11.30

Chiara ARRIGHI

Biografia

Chiara Arrighi è nata a Fiesole (Fi) il 9 marzo 1986. Ha conseguito la laurea magistrale in ingegneria per la Tutela dell'Ambiente e del Territorio ad aprile 2012.

Nel 2016 ha conseguito il titolo di dottore di ricerca in "Civil and Environmental Engineering" programma internazionale congiunto con TU Braunschweig (Germania), con tesi di dottorato dal titolo "Vehicles, pedestrians and flood risk: a focus on the incipient motion due to the mean flow".

Attualmente è Professoressa Associata presso il Dip.to di Ing. Civile e Ambientale.

Chiara ARRIGHI

Curriculum

Dati personali

Nata a Fiesole (FI) il 9 marzo 1986

Incarichi attuali

dal 2025: Professoressa Associata

2019-2025: ricercatrice presso il DICEA

2016-2019: assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale a Firenze

Da ottobre 2017: docente a contratto del corso di Gestione delle Risorse Idriche (corso magistrale ATM)

Titoli di studio

2016: Dottorato di ricerca in Civil and Environmental Engineering (UNIFI, UNIPI, UNIPG, TU Braunschweig)

2012: Abilitazione alla professione di ingegnere

2012: Laurea magistrale in ingegneria per la tutela dell’ambiente e del territorio

2009: Laurea triennale in ingegneria per la tutela dell’ambiente e del territorio

Membro di:

European Geosciences Union EGU
American Geophysical Union AGU
Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica GII

Premi e riconoscimenti

2016 - Menzione per il secondo posto al 2016 Gii Award for doctoral Thesis in Water Engineering, Napoli, 4 luglio 2016.

2016 - Premio Miglior Poster del macro-tema “Valutazione e mitigazione del rischio idrologico e idraulico” del XXXV Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Bologna 14-16 settembre 2016.

2015 - Outstanding student poster (OSP) of the European Geosciences Union nella divisione scientifica ‘Natural Hazards’.

2015 - secondo posto European Geosciences Union “Communicate your Science” Video competition con il video ‘Floods’

2013 - Migliore presentazione, GII (Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica) PhD Days, Bologna.

Chiara ARRIGHI

Interessi

Rischio idraulico in ambiente urbano, stima dei danni da alluvione, modelli 3D (OpenFOAM), GIS, Resilienza delle comunità ai rischi naturali.

Chiara ARRIGHI

Pubblicazioni

Legenda

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Articolo su libro |

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Contributo in atti di convegno (proceeding) |

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Tesi di Dottorato

Amaddii, Michele; Castelli, Fabio; Arrighi, Chiara (2026). Assessing road-watercourse crossing overtopping potential using GIS and remote sensing: a large-scale screening approach. NATURAL HAZARDS, vol. 122, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0921-030X DOI

Koohi, Sakineh; Azizian, Asghar; Najafi, Mohammad Saeid; Arrighi, Chiara (2026). Estimating Financial Flood Damages in Residential and Commercial Regions: A Global Depth-Damage Approach. WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, vol. 40, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0920-4741 DOI

Santesi, Federico; Socci, Luca; Rocchetti, Andrea; Arrighi, Chiara (2026). Application of the Water-Energy Nexus approach to assess the sustainability of air conditioning systems. APPLIED ENERGY, vol. 407, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0306-2619 DOI

Gupta, Kunal; Arrighi, Chiara (2026). From drivers to damage: A conceptual framework for integrated flood risk assessment of inland hydrological assets. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 1031, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0048-9697 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; Lucia, Claudia De; Castelli, Fabio (2026). Building‐Scale Flood Hazard Modelling for Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage. JOURNAL OF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT, vol. 19, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1753-318X DOI

Masi, Matteo; Moghaddam, Maryam Barati; Castelli, Fabio; Arrighi, Chiara (2026). Modelling nutrient loads in data-scarce large catchments using spatially regularized ensemble calibration. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 1038, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0048-9697 DOI

Polese, M.; Tocchi, G.; Clemente, M.F.; Di Palma, B.; Gaetani d'Aragona, M.; Molinari, D.; Treglia, G.; Lavalle, L.; Bragalli, C.; Zingali, L.C.; Freni, G.; Piazza, S.; Pittore, M.; Pirni, A.; Zaccaria, A.M.; Arrighi, C.; Losasso, M.; Prota, A. (2026). Virtual testbed for multi-risk assessment: defining RETURNVILLEs to support the analysis and testing of DRM and CCA solutions in realistic urban contexts. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, vol. 142, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2212-4209 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; De Simone, Marco; Checcucci, Gaia; Bonamini, Isabella; Bartalesi, Stefano; Simoncini, Cristina; Castelli, Fabio (2025). Development of an eco-hydrological distance index and improved environmental flow assessment by integrating ecological monitoring and hydrological modeling. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 969, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0048-9697 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; Castelli, Fabio (2025). Modelling Resilience to Floods in Art Cities: A Historical Perspective. JOURNAL OF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT, vol. 18, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1753-318X DOI

Bertoli, Gabriele; Arrighi, Chiara; Caporali, Enrica (2025). Flood exposure of environmental assets. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, vol. 25, pp. 565-580, ISSN:1684-9981 DOI

Nobile, Elisa G.L.; Figueiredo, Rui; Arrighi, Chiara; Romão, Xavier; Martina, Mario L.V. (2025). Flood risk assessment of cultural heritage across countries and spatial scales. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, vol. 118, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2212-4209 DOI

Rrokaj, Sara; Arrighi, Chiara; Ballocci, Marta; Bertoli, Gabriele; da Porto, Francesca; De Lucia, Claudia; Di Bacco, Mario; Di Fluri, Paola; Domeneghetti, Alessio; Donà, Marco; Gallazzi, Alice; Gennaro, Andrea; Hammouti, Mohammed; Lelli, Gianluca; Mozzon, Sara; Petruccelli, Natasha; Saler, Elisa; Scorzini, Anna Rita; Sterlacchini, Simone; Treglia, Gaia; Voltolina, Debora; Zazzeri, Marco; Molinari, Daniela (2025). Survey data of damaged residential buildings and business premises from the 2022 record-breaking flood in the Marche region, Italy. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA, vol. 17, pp. 6487-6496, ISSN:1866-3516 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; Masi, Matteo; De Lucia, Claudia; Castelli, Fabio (2025). Prioritizing risk for cultural heritage through social value: a participatory framework. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, vol. 126, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2212-4209 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; Domeneghetti, Alessio (2024). Brief communication: On the environmental impacts of the 2023 floods in Emilia-Romagna (Italy). NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, vol. 24, pp. 673-679, ISSN:1684-9981 DOI

De Lucia, Claudia; Amaddii, Michele; Arrighi, Chiara (2024). Tangible and intangible ex post assessment of flood-induced damage to cultural heritage. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, vol. 24, pp. 4317-4339, ISSN:1684-9981 DOI

Arosio, M.; Arrighi, C.; Bonomelli, R.; Domeneghetti, A.; Farina, G.; Molinari, D.; Monteleone, B.; Scorzini, A.R.; Martina, M. (2024). Unveiling the assessment process behind an integrated flood risk management plan. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, vol. 112, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2212-4209 DOI

marco de simone, chiara arrighi, fabio castelli (2024). Sensitivity of Water Stress Indices to Climate Change in Tuscany (ITALY). In: 8th IAHR Europe Congress (Lisbon, 2024), LNEC, pp. 611-612.

Masi, Matteo; Arrighi, Chiara; Piragino, Francesco; Castelli, Fabio (2024). Participatory multi-criteria decision making for optimal siting of multipurpose artificial reservoirs. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, vol. 370, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0301-4797 DOI

marco de simone, chiara arrighi, fabio castelli (2024). Dynamics of water balance indices through a fully distributed hydrological model, ground data and earth observation. In: IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), GFZpublic, pp. 0-0. DOI

Mascheri, G.; Chieffo, N.; Arrighi, C.; Del Gaudio, C.; Lourenço, P.B. (2024). A framework for multi-risk assessment in a historical area of Lisbon. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, vol. 108, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2212-4209 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; Castelli, Fabio (2023). Prediction of ecological status of surface water bodies with supervised machine learning classifiers. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0048-9697 DOI

Arrighi C.; Ballio F.; Simonelli T. (2023). A GIS-based flood damage index for cultural heritage. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, vol. 90, pp. 103654-103668, ISSN:2212-4209 DOI

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Castelli (2023). Modelling flood impacts, resilience and risk in art cities. In: International Conference on Urban Risks, Centro Europeu de Riscos Urbanos (EUR‐OPA) CERU – European Centre on Urban Risks Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências de Lisboa, pp. 211-215, ISBN:978-989-95094-2-9

Chiara Arrighi; Marco Tanganelli; Vieri Cardinali; Maria Teresa Cristofaro; Antonino Maria Marra; Fabio Castelli; Mario De Stefano (2023). Multi-Hazard and Multi-vulnerability Analysis in Historical Urban Areas: Challenges and Opportunities. In: 3rd International Workshop on Natural Hazards (NATHAZ’22), Terceira Island—Azores 2022, Springer, pp. 127-131.

Bertoli, Gabriele; Arrighi, Chiara (2023). Flood risk assessment of educational and health critical facilities. In: EGU general Assembly, Copernicus, pp. 5616-5616. DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; De Simone, Marco; Castelli, Fabio (2023). Shaping eco-hydrologic flow regimes at regional scale. In: EGU general Assembly, Copernicus, pp. 6560-6560. DOI

Martina, Mario Lloyd Virgilio; Arosio, Marcello; Arrighi, Chiara; Domeneghetti, Alessio; Farina, Gabriele; Giusti, Riccardo; Molinari, Daniela; Pilotti, Marco; Scorzini, Annarita (2023). Flood impacts beyond the direct and physical ones: the case of the Po catchment in Italy. In: EGU general Assembly, Copernicus, pp. 11639-11639. DOI

Molinari, Daniela; Arrighi, Chiara; Da Porto, Francesca; Domeneghetti, Alessio; Scorzini, Annarita (2023). The record-breaking flood in Central Italy in September 2022: preliminary impacts analysis from a field survey campaign. In: EGU general Assembly, Copernicus, pp. 13743-13743. DOI

Caporali, Enrica; Bertoli, Gabriele; Arrighi, Chiara (2023). Valuing environmental assets for flood exposure assessment. In: EGU general Assembly, Copernicus, pp. 15442-15442. DOI

Arrighi C.; Tanganelli M.; Cristofaro M.T.; Cardinali V.; Marra A.; Castelli F.; De Stefano M. (2023). Multi-risk assessment in a historical city. NATURAL HAZARDS, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0921-030X DOI

Chiara ARRIGHI; Marco TANGANELLI; Vieri CARDINALI; Maria Teresa CRISTOFARO; Antonino Maria MARRA; Fabio CASTELLI; Mario DE STEFANO (2023). Multi-risk mitigation in art cities. In: International Conference on Urban Risks, Angra do Heroísmo, 26 May 2022 - 27 May 2022, Centro Europeu de Riscos Urbanos (EUR‐OPA) CERU – European Centre on Urban Risks Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências de Lisboa, pp. 329-332.

Francesco Ballio; Clara Armaroli; Marcello Arosio; Chiara Arrighi; Enrico Borgogno Mondino; Francesca Carisi; Fabio Castelli; Paolo Ciavola; Silvia De Biaggi; Gianni Di Pietro; Alessio Domeneghetti; Enrico Duo; Gabriele Farina; Alice Gallazzi; Federica Ghilardi; Riccardo Giusti; Mohammed Hammouti; Fabio Luino; Mario Martina; Daniela Molinari; Beatrice Monteleone; Natasha Petruccelli; Marco Pilotti; Anna Rita Scorzini; Tommaso Simonelli; Simone Sterlacchini; Laura Turconi; Cesare Vasini; Marco Zazzeri; Laura Zoppi (2022). The Movida Project to Support the Update of Flood Risk Maps in the Po River District: Methodology for Flood Damage Assessment. In: 39th IAHR World Congress—From Snow To Sea, IAHR, pp. 6653-6657.

Arrighi C.; Carraresi A.; Castelli F. (2022). Resilience of art cities to flood risk: A quantitative model based on depth-idleness correlation. JOURNAL OF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT, pp. 1-15, ISSN:1753-318X DOI

Chiara Arrighi, Marco de SImone, Isabella Bonamini, Stefano Bartalesi, Crisitna Simoncini, Andrea di grazia, Francesco Consumi, Fabio Castelli (2022). Climate Change Effects on Ecological Flow: A Case Study in Central Italy. In: 39th IAHR World Congress—From Snow To Sea, IAHR, pp. 3064-3070.

Arrighi, Chiara; Pregnolato, Maria; Castelli, Fabio (2021). Flood impact on critical linear infrastructures. In: FLOODrisk 2020 - 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, pp. 1-6. DOI

Arosio, Marcello; Arrighi, Chiara; Cesarini, Luigi; Martina, Mario L. V. (2021). Service Accessibility Risk (SAR) Assessment for Pluvial and Fluvial Floods in an Urban Context. HYDROLOGY, vol. 8, pp. 142-156, ISSN:2306-5338 DOI

Arrighi C. (2021). A Global Scale Analysis of River Flood Risk of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. FRONTIERS IN WATER, vol. 3, pp. 1-12, ISSN:2624-9375 DOI

Chiara, Arrighi; Fabio, Castelli (2021). Vehicles vulnerability to flood. In: 6th IAHR Europe Congress, IAHR, pp. 539-540.

Arrighi C.; Pregnolato M.; Castelli F. (2021). Indirect flood impacts and cascade risk across interdependent linear infrastructures. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, vol. 21, pp. 1955-1969, ISSN:1561-8633 DOI

Arrighi C.; Bonamini I.; Simoncini C.; Bartalesi S.; Castelli F. (2021). WFD ecological quality indicators are poorly correlated with water levels in river catchments in Tuscany (Italy). HYDROLOGY, vol. 8, pp. 185-195, ISSN:2306-5338 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; Ballio, Francesco; Carisi, Francesca; Castelli, Fabio; Domeneghetti, Alessio; Gallazzi, Alice; Galliani, Marta; Grelot, Frédéric; Kellermann, Patric; Kreibich, Heidi; Molinari, Daniela; Mohor, Guilherme S.; Mosimann, Markus; Natho, Stephanie; Richert, Claire; Schröter, Kai; Scorzini, Anna Rita; Thieken, Annegret H; Zischg, Andreas Paul (2021). A comparative analysis of flood damage models: lessons learnt and future challenges. In: FLOODrisk 2020 - 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, pp. 1-6. DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; Castelli, Fabio (2020). The 2017 Flash Flood of Livorno (Italy): Lessons Learnt from an Exceptional Hydrologic Event. In: Francisco Fernandes, Ana Malheiro, Helder I. Chaminé. Advances in Natural Hazards and Hydrological Risks: Meeting the Challenge, pp. 117-120 Springer, ISBN:978-3-030-34396-5. DOI

Daniela Molinari; Anna Rita Scorzini; Chiara Arrighi; Francesca Carisi; Fabio Castelli; Alessio Domeneghetti; Alice Gallazzi; Marta Galliani; Frédéric Grelot; Patric Kellermann; Heidi Kreibich; Guilherme S. Mohor; Markus Mosimann; Stephanie Natho; Claire Richert; Kai Schroeter; Annegret H. Thieken; Andreas Paul Zischg; Francesco Ballio (2020). Are flood damage models converging to “reality”? Lessons learnt from a blind test. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, vol. 20, pp. 2997-3017, ISSN:1684-9981 DOI

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Castelli (2020). The 2017 flash flood of Livorno: lessons learnt from an exceptional hydrologic event.. In: 2nd International Workshop on Natural Hazards, Springer, pp. 1-5.

Arrighi, Chiara; Mazzanti, Bernardo; Pistone, Francesco; Castelli, Fabio (2020). Empirical flash flood vulnerability functions for residential buildings. SN APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 2, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2523-3963 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara*; Campo, Lorenzo (2019). Effects of digital terrain model uncertainties on high-resolution urban flood damage assessment. JOURNAL OF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1753-318X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Chiara Arrighi; Maria Pregnolato; Richard J. Dawson; Fabio Castelli (2019). SENSITIVITY OF TRANSPORT MODEL TO HYDRAULIC MODEL FOR FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT OF ROAD INFRASTRUCTURES. In: 38th IAHR World Congress, IAHR, pp. 2758-2767.

Fabio Tarani; Chiara Arrighi; Laura Carnevali; Fabio Castelli; Enrico Vicario (2019). Flood resilience of a water distribution sytem. In: Editor: Francesco Flammini. Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems-From Risk Modelling to Threat Counteraction, pp. 177-194 Springer, ISBN:978-3-319-95596-4. DOI

Arrighi, C.; Pregnolato, M.; Dawson, R.J.; Castelli, F. (2019). Preparedness against mobility disruption by floods. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 654, pp. 1010-1022, ISSN:0048-9697 DOI

Arrighi, Chiara; Rossi, Lauro; Trasforini, Eva; Rudari, Roberto; Ferraris, Luca; Brugioni, Marcello; Franceschini, Serena; Castelli, Fabio (2018). Quantification of flood risk mitigation benefits: A building-scale damage assessment through the RASOR platform. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, vol. 207, pp. 92-104, ISSN:1095-8630 DOI

Chiara, Arrighi; Matteo, Masi; Renato, Iannelli (2018). Flood risk assessment of environmental pollution hotspots. ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE, vol. 100, pp. 1-10, ISSN:1364-8152 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Arrighi, C., Brugioni, M., Castelli, F., Franceschini, S., Mazzanti, B. (2018). Flood risk assessment in art cities: the exemplary case of Florence (Italy). JOURNAL OF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT, vol. 11, pp. S616-S631, ISSN:1753-318X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Tarani; Enrico Vicario; Fabio Castelli (2018). IMPATTI DELLE ALLUVIONI SUGLI ACQUEDOTTI. In: XXXVI Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, NA, pp. 0-0, ISBN:9788894379907

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Castelli (2018). STABILITÀ UMANA NELLE CORRENTI DI PIENA: SENSITIVITÀ E ASPETTI DI GENERE. In: XXXVI Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, NA, pp. 0-0, ISBN:9788894379907

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Castelli (2018). Flood Risk maps for Drivers and Pedestrians. In: European Geosciences Union- General Assembly, European Geosciences Union -Copernicus, pp. 7718-7718.

Chiara Arrighi; Lorenzo Campo (2018). Sensitivity of flood losses to terrain elevation uncertainties and buildings representation. In: European Geosciences Union- General Assembly, European Geosciences Union -Copernicus, pp. 6461-6461.

Chiara Arrighi; Lauro Rossi; Eva Trasforini; Roberto Rudari; Luca Ferraris; Marcello Brugioni; Serena Franceschini; Fabio Castelli (2018). Flood risk mitigation benefits: a case study in Florence, Italy. In: European Geosciences Union- General Assembly, European Geosciences Union -Copernicus, pp. 6600-6600.

C. Arrighi; F. Castelli; M. Pregnolato; R.J. Dawson (2018). Engineering society flood preparedness and Civil Protection activities. In: New challenges in Hydraulic Engineering and Research, International Association of Hydraulic Research, pp. 100-102.

Chiara, Arrighi; Lauro, Rossi; Eva, Trasforini; Roberto, Rudari; Luca, Ferraris; Marcello, Brugioni; Serena, Franceschini; Fabio, Castelli (2018). Quantification of flood risk mitigation benefits: A building-scale damage assessment through the RASOR platform. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, vol. 207, pp. 92-104, ISSN:0301-4797 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Chiara, Arrighi; Fabio, Castelli; Hocine, Oumeraci (2017). Flood hazard maps for vehicles and pedestrians. In: 7th International Conference on Flood Risk management, Leeds (UK), University of Leeds, pp. 16-17.

Arrighi, C.; Campo, L. (2017). Merging LIDAR digital terrain model with direct observed elevation points for urban flood numerical simulation. In: European Geosciences Union, European Geosciences Union -Copernicus, pp. 3933-3933.

Arrighi, C.; Masi, M.; Iannelli, R. (2017). Flood risk assessment of land pollution hotspots. In: European Geosciences Union- General Assembly, European Geosciences Union -Copernicus, pp. 5444-5444.

Arrighi, C.; Tarani, F.; Vicario, E.; Castelli, F. (2017). Flood risk assessment of fresh water supply systems. In: European Geosciences Union, European Geosciences Union -Copernicus, vol. 19, pp. 7692-7692.

Arrighi, C.; Castelli, F. (2017). Pedestrians’ vulnerability in floodwaters: sensitivity to gender and age. In: European Geosciences Union- General Assembly, European Geosciences Union -Copernicus, vol. 19, pp. 14337-14337.

Arrighi, C.; Tarani, F.; Vicario, E.; Castelli, F. (2017). Flood impacts on a water distribution network. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, vol. 17, pp. 2109-2123, ISSN:1684-9981 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Arrighi, Chiara; Oumeraci, Hocine; Castelli, Fabio (2017). Hydrodynamics of pedestrians' instability in floodwaters. HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, vol. 21, pp. 515-531, ISSN:1027-5606 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Arrighi, C.; Castelli, F.; Mazzanti, B. (2016). Floods and cultural heritage: Risk assessment and management for the city of Florence, Italy. In: 4th European Congress of the International Association of Hydroenvironment engineering and Research, IAHR 2016, bel, 2016, CRC Press/Balkema, pp. 871-876, ISBN:9781138029774

Arrighi, Chiara (2016). Vehicles, pedestrians and flood risk: a focus on the incipient motion due to the mean flow. (Tutor: Fabio Castelli, Hocine Oumeraci)

Arrighi, Chiara; Huybrechts, Nicolas; Ouahsine, Abdellatif; Chassé, Patrick; Oumeraci, Hocine; Castelli, Fabio (2016). Vehicles instability criteria for flood risk assessment of a street network. In: 7th International Water Resources Management Conference of IAHS-ICWRS 2016, COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH, pp. 143-146. DOI

Arrighi, C.; Castelli, F.; Oumeraci, H. (2016). Effects of flow orientation on the onset of motion of flooded vehicles. In: 4th European Congress of the International Association of Hydroenvironment engineering and Research, IAHR 2016, bel, 2016, CRC Press/Balkema, pp. 837-841, ISBN:9781138029774

Fabio Castelli; Chiara Arrighi (2016). Stabilità dei veicoli in caso di allagamento del sottopasso: aspetti idraulici. In: Michela Tiboni. SICUREZZA DEI SOTTOPASSI STRADALI, pp. 29-34 EGAF EDIZIONI srl Via F. Guarini 2 - 47121 Forlì (FC), ISBN:8884827280.

Arrighi, C.; Alcèrreca-Huerta, J.C.; Oumeraci, H.; Castelli, F. (2015). Drag and lift contribution to the incipient motion of partly submerged flooded vehicles. JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES, vol. 57, pp. 170-184, ISSN:0889-9746 DOI

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Castelli; Hocine Oumeraci; Juan Carlos Alcèrreca-Huerta (2014). Sul moto incipiente di autoveicoli investiti da una corrente di piena: confronto tra simulazioni numeriche e dati sperimentali. In: XXXIV Convegno Nazionale Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Bari, 7-10 settembre 2014, Tipografia Zaccaria Editore, pp. 541-542, ISBN:9788890456183

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Castelli; Hocine Oumeraci (2014). A preliminary numerical model on the incipient motion conditions of flooded vehicles. In: EGU General Assembly 2014, Copernicus Publications, pp. 708-708.

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Castelli; Marcello Brugioni; Serena Franceschini; Bernardo Mazzanti (2014). Quantitative flood risk assessment in historic cities: sensitivity to hydraulic modeling and open socio-economic data.. In: EGU General Assembly 2014, Copernicus Publications, pp. 668-668.

Chiara Arrighi; Marcello Brugioni; Fabio Castelli; Serena Franceschini; Bernardo Mazzanti (2014). Stima del rischio idraulico a micro-scala urbana con modello idraulico semplificato e dati censuari. In: XXXIV Convegno Nazionale Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Bari, 7-10 settembre 2014, Tipografia Zaccaria Editore, pp. 537-538, ISBN:9788890456183

Chiara Arrighi; Fabio Castelli; Marcello Brugioni; Serena Franceschini; Bernardo Mazzanti (2014). The use of open data in the micro-scale urban flood risk assessment and mapping: two case studies in historic cities in Italy. In: 9th Alexander von Humboldt Conference 2014 High Impact Natural Hazards Related to the Euro-Mediterranean Region, Copernicus Publications, pp. 10-10. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

C. Arrighi;M. Brugioni;F. Castelli;S. Franceschini;B. Mazzanti (2013). Urban micro-scale flood risk estimation with parsimonious hydraulic modelling and census data. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, vol. 13, pp. 1375-1391, ISSN:1684-9981 DOI

Fabio Castelli; Chiara Arrighi; Marcello Brugioni; Serena Franceschini; Bernardo Mazzanti (2013). Micro-scale flood risk estimation in historic centres: a case study in Florence, Italy. In: EGU General Assembly 2013, Copernicus Publications, pp. 9787-9787. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Chiara ARRIGHI

Biography

Born in Fiesole (Fi) on March 9th 1986. Graduated in Environmental Engineering (MSc) in 2012.

In 2016 she was awarded a PhD in "Civil and Environmental Engineering" by the joint consortium of universities of Florence (UNIFI), Pisa (UNIPI), Perugia (UNIPG) and TU Braunschweigh (Germany) with a thesis entitled "Vehicles, pedestrians and flood risk: a focus on the incipient motion due to the mean flow".

Currently she is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Florence.

Chiara ARRIGHI

Curriculum

Personal information

Born in Fiesole (FI) on March 1986

Current position

since 2025: Associate Professor

2019-2025: Researcher at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Florence

2016-2019 : post-doc research fellow at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Florence.

Since october 2017: Lecturer of the course on Water Resources Management (master in environmental engineering ATM)

Education

2016: PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering (UNIFI, UNIPI, UNIPG, TU Braunschweig)

2012: MSc in Environmental Engineering

2009: BSc in Environmental Engineering

Member of:

European Geosciences Union EGU
American Geophysical Union AGU
Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica GII

Awards

2016 – Mention for second place at the 2016 Gii Award for doctoral Thesis in Water Engineering, Napoli, 4 luglio 2016.

2016 – Best poster of the topic Flood Risk “Valutazione e mitigazione del rischio idrologico e idraulico” del XXXV Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Bologna 14-16 settembre 2016.

2015 - Outstanding student poster (OSP) of the European Geosciences Union in the ‘Natural Hazards’ division.

2015 - 2nd place European Geosciences Union “Communicate your Science” Video competition with the video entitled ‘Floods’

2013 - Best presentation, GII (Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica) PhD Days, Bologna.

Chiara ARRIGHI

Interest

Urban floods, flood damage assessment, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 3D hydrodynamics (OpenFOAM), Community resilience to natural hazards.