Sustainable Land Management

The Interuniversity PhD Course in Sustainable Land Management was born from the collaboration between the University of Bari Aldo Moro and the Polytechnic University of Bari. The course is based at the University of Bari and is highly interdisciplinary, with the objective of integrating in a systemic vision the engineering, agro-forestry and environmental knowledge that are typical of the different scientific areas that today contribute, with a different approach, to define the forms of sustainable land management.

The goal is to explore new frontiers, both of basic and applied research, which give impetus to the knowledge necessary for the management of environmental and territorial complexity, promoting technological innovation in line with the New Green Deal that will characterize national policies and communities of the near future.

Coordinator: Prof. Francesco Gentile

Contents:

News
Course description
PhD students
Research projects
Teaching activity
Admission procedures
Notice-board for XXXVI cycle selection call
Notice-board for XXXVII cycle selection call
Notice-board for XXXVIII cycle selection call
International collaborations
Laboratories and libraries
Download area
Useful links
Contacts

NEWS

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02.08.2023 - Oral exam results (position reserved for students graduated abroad)

02.08.2023 - Oral exam results (non-reserved positions)

29.07.2023 - List of the candidates admitted to the oral examination

28.07.2023 - Evaluation criteria - Report no. 1bis from the Commission

20.06.2023 - The call for admission to the PhD of the University of Bari Aldo Moro for the XXXIX cycle has been published, with deadline 20 July 2023 at 12:00. The Annex related to the phD in “Sustainable land management” can be found at page 83. The call can be downloaded from this link:

https://www.uniba.it/it/ricerca/dottorati/dottorato-ricerca-39-ciclo-aa-23-24/bando-di-concorso-39deg-ciclo-a-a-2023-2024/xxxix-cycle_call-phd-selection-a-y-2023_2024.pdf/view

28.12.2022 - Risultati della prova orale/Results of the oral examination

27.12.2022 - Elenco dei candidati ammessi alla prova orale

La prova orale si svolgerà il giorno 28 dicembre 2022 alle ore 9.00, nell’Aula Magna del Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti (DiSSPA), via Amendola 165/A, Bari, anziché nell’Aula 15.

The oral exam will begin on December 28, 2022 at 9.00 am Italian time. Foreign candidates will be connected online using the following link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3aAf4HyEyk7t01yjx9H4oeNYgbzfrlnU4USthuod_Ur7E1%40thread.tacv2/1672158487208?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c6328dc3-afdf-40ce-846d-326eead86d49%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2205dae39c-a908-412f-a540-39c18772f555%22%7d

27.12.2022 - Evaluation criteria - Report no. 1 from the Commission

01.08.2022 - Oral test results

28.07.2022 -
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a9mhotnwg6DMnO0bJRBJZeeKluD27PXpktYxyoPq_efk1%40thread.tacv2/1658993000306?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c6328dc3-afdf-40ce-846d-326eead86d49%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222cbbd9c5-050a-43d7-89f8-e991818aa2ee%22%7d

27.07.2022 - List of candidates admitted to the oral examination

26.07.2022 - Evaluation criteria - Report no. 1 from the Commission

25.07.2022 - The oral exam for foreign candidates will take place electronically on the Teams platform, below is the link to be used to access the Teams platform on July 28, 2022:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a-SPUQYrt2nV6Dt6Ob6KXlAWn7F24brF-2bOl8t-VgI81%40thread.tacv2/1658749790904?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c6328dc3-afdf-40ce-846d-326eead86d49%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222cbbd9c5-050a-43d7-89f8-e991818aa2ee%22%7d

14.02.2022 - Election of the representative of the phD students in the College of Teachers XXXVII cycle

04.11.2021 - The results of the oral exam are published.

03.11.2021 - The list of candidates admitted to the oral exam is published, which will take place on November 4, 2021 at 9.00 am on the Teams platform.

02.11.2021 - Below is the link to be used to access the Teams platform for the oral exam on November 4th 2021: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a2k_Wdatil2a6OuEiVHKgwyhJW7-r8Wznbp8fNFp3Hik1%40thread.tacv2/1635847288482?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c6328dc3-afdf-40ce-846d-326eead86d49%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2205dae39c-a908-412f-a540-39c18772f555%22%7d

18.10.2021 - The call for additional PhD scholarships on innovation topics (Action IV.4) and on green topics (Action IV.5) has been published: https://www.uniba.it/ricerca/dottorati/dottorato-di-ricerca-37degciclo-a-a-2021-2022/bando-assegnazione-borse-di-studio-dottorato-aggiuntive-tematiche-innovazione-azione-iv-4-tematiche-green-azione-iv-5

09.06.2021 - The call for admission to the PhD XXXVII cycle of the University of Bari Aldo Moro has been published, with deadline on 8 July at 12:00. Here is the link with the call: https://www.uniba.it/ricerca/dottorati/dottorato-di-ricerca-37degciclo-a-a-2021-2022/bando-di-concorso

15.02.2021 - Election of the representative of the PhD students in the Council of the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science for the academic period 2020-2022

08.02.2021 - Election of the representative of the phD students in the College of Teachers XXXVI cycle

28.12.2020 - On January 12, 2021 the teaching activities of the PhD in Sustainable Land Management will begin with the lessons of the Course of Statistics applied to biosciences (teacher: prof. Gaetano Alessandro Vivaldi). Subsequently, from January 25, the lectures of the Science Communication and Scientific Publications Course will begin (teacher: prof. Pietro Santamaria). The lessons will take place on the MS-Teams platform.

Course description

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Educational objectives and research topics

The interuniversity PhD course between the University of Bari Aldo Moro and the Polytechnic University of Bari aims to integrate the engineering, agro-forestry and environmental knowledge that are typical of the various scientific areas that contribute today, even if with a different approach, to define the forms of sustainable land management. The goal is to explore new frontiers, both of basic and applied research, which give impetus to the knowledge necessary for the management of environmental and territorial complexity, promoting technological innovation in line with the New Green Deal that will characterize national policies and communities of the near future.

The doctorate intends to support a transversal approach that sees, in the development of ecosystemic approaches and actions, the ways in which to combine development and environmental protection, preserve natural resources and optimize their use to maximize benefits, guarantee resilience and adaptation to climate and environmental change.

Thanks to the integration of different disciplines, at the end of the course, the PhD will have the level of skills required to conduct a highly innovative research activity and implement applications, both in the technical and academic roles, in the field of land management engineering, biosystem engineering and agro-forestry sciences. Particular attention is paid to the issue of technology transfer.

The objectives of the Course are pursued in the following topics, which are not exhaustive:

sustainable management of natural resources,
strategies for mitigation and adaptation to climate and environmental changes,
the construction and management aspects of structures and plants,
the study of the climate-soil-vegetation interaction,
prediction and defense from extreme events,
the study and mitigation of soil erosion processes,
green infrastructures,
prevention and active interventions against forest fires,
integrated waste water treatment aimed at recovering raw materials,
the methods for assessing environmental sustainability (e.g. LCA),
the management of information made available by remote sensors (remote sensing) and proximity sensors (precision farming),
the use of technologies for the analysis and management of large amounts of data (IoT and Big Data).

Professional possibilities

The training activities planned in this PhD program have the objective to allow participants to develop a vision and a broad awareness on a multi and inter-disciplinary context. This is necessary nowadays to operate in a context of complex challenges related to (food) security, climate change, technological innovation, and environmental sustainability. The PhD program will contribute to train public and private managers, professionals, and researchers and will allow to qualify and specialize them. In addition, it will induce participants to be more autonomous, responsible, intellectually flexible, and creative on decisions to be taken and, consequently, to be rapidly involved in working activities related to planning, management, and environmental protection.

Given the breadth of the topics and the typical interdisciplinary nature of engineering, biosystem engineering and agro-forestry sciences, the professional opportunities for participants to the PhD program on "Sustainable land management" are wide-ranging in Italy and throughout the world. In particular, professionals and qualified technicians with specific skills are requested, i.e., i) researchers to be hired by research centers and public or private laboratories, ii) technical managers to be hired by industries and/or national and international administrative bodies, and iii) researchers and professors to be hired by universities.

College of Teachers

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Professors belonging to the University of Bari Aldo Moro

	Nominativo	Settore Scientifico Disciplinare	Dipartimento
1	DE LUCIA Barbara	AGR/04	DISAAT
2	FUSCO Piergiorgio	FIS/01	FISICA
3	GARGANO Letizia	BIO/03	DISAAT
4	GENTILE Francesco (Coordinatore)	AGR/08	DISAAT
5	GIANNOCCARO Giacomo	AGR/01	DISAAT
6	LAFORTEZZA Raffaele	AGR/05	DISAAT
7	PASCUZZI Simone	AGR/09	DISAAT
8	ROMA Rocco	AGR/01	DISAAT
9	SANESI Giovanni	AGR/05	DISAAT
10	SANTORO Francesco	AGR/09	DISAAT
11	SCHETTINI Evelia	AGR/10	DISAAT
12	TANGARO Sabina	FIS/07	DISSPA
13	TARASCO Eustachio	AGR/11	DISSPA
14	VIVALDI Alessandro	AGR/03	DISAAT
15	VOX Giuliano	AGR/10	DISAAT

Professors belonging to the Polytechnic University of Bari

16	BEN MEFTAH Mouldi	ICAR/01	DICATECh
17	CAFARO Francesco	ICAR/07	DICATECh
18	CARBONARA Nunzia	INGIND/35	DMMM
19	DASSISTI Michele	ING-IND/16	DMMM
20	DI NISIO Attilio	ING-INF/07	DEI
21	ELIA Gaetano	ICAR/07	DICATECh
22	FRATINO Umberto	ICAR/02	DICATECh
23	GIOIA Andrea	ICAR/02	DICATECh
24	GRASSINI Laura	ICAR/20	DICATECh
25	MALCANGIO Daniela	ICAR/01	DICATECh
26	NASCETTI Andrea	ICAR/06	DICATECh
27	PETRELLA Andrea	ING-IND/22	DICATECh
28	PICCINNI Alberto Ferruccio	ICAR/02	DICATECh
29	SCARASCIA MUGNOZZA	Giacomo	DICATECh
30	SIMEONE Vincenzo	GEO/05	DICATECh
31	SPASIANO Danilo	ICAR/03	DICATECh

External teachers

32	LAMADDALENA Nicola	Esperto	Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo (CIHEAM)

Representative of PhD students

33	CENTANNI Marco	Dottorando	XXXVI Ciclo

PhD students

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Ph Students XXXVII Cycle

1. BHUTTO Danish Ali

2. COSTANZA Leonardo

3. D'AMICO Antonia

4. D'AQUINO Biagio

5. DE CAROLIS Gabriele

6. DE TOMMASI Gianluigi

7. NOVIELLI Pierfrancesco

8. PARDI Raimondo

9. PARISI Rosaria

10. PERRINI Pasquale

11. REN Yaxue

12. ROMANO Donato

13. TAURO Eleonora

14. VICINO Francesco

15. ZIZZI Marialetizia

Ph Students XXXVI Cycle

ALBERTINI Cinzia
BELLIL Dorra
CALABRESE Pietro
CENTANNI Marco
CIAPPA Antonino
FACENDOLA Rosalia
GAROFALO Simone Pietro
GIORDANO Maria Grazia
LEONE Marianna
MANDRIOTA Luigia
MARTELLOTTA Audrey Maria Noemi
MELUCCI Francesca Maria
MILANO Giuseppe
MORELLO Raffaele
RONCO Francesco
STASI Nico
VALENZANO Luca

Sediment management in river basins
PhD Student: MARTELLOTTA AUDREY MARIA NOEMI

Soil water content monitoring using a CMD mini-explorer to assess the accuracy of an agro-hydrological model FLOW-HAGES.
PhD Student: BELLIL DORRA

Sustainable solutions for the mitigation of climate-induced landslide activity through intelligent vegetation
PhD Student: STASI NICO

Teaching activity

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The PhD student will acquire 14 European Credits Transfer System (ECTS) through the attendance of courses, which are structured and compulsory for all participants. Furthermore, the student may acquire additional 6 University Credits (CFU), of their choice, by participating in seminars and short courses, or by attending a master's degree course on topics related to the doctorate program.

Common Training Activities
The Training activities will be divided as follows:

Language: it will aim at improving the written and oral competences on English language to write and translate different texts of scientific research. Functions and meanings of syntactic forms characteristic of scientific writing and academic speeches will be also explored.

Information Technology: aiming at consolidating the preparation of PhD students in the application of information technologies, with reference to data processing. The PhD student will acquire the skills to identify appropriate strategies to analyze and interpret data using statistical computer applications.

Management of research, knowledge of research systems, and funding systems: with this activity, the PhD student should acquire knowledge and skills necessary for the acquisition and the management of research resources.

Enhancement of research results and intellectual property: with this activity the PhD student should acquire the necessary knowledge and skills on how to write a scientific paper and how to present results to a qualified audience. The training will also include notions on patenting and related economic enhancement.

Admission procedures

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Admission requirements
Master's degree or second-level equivalent academic qualification obtained at a recognized national or international university is a mandatory title for the candidates to be admitted to the selection procedure. There are no limitations of age or citizenship for applying to this position.

Admission procedures
The selection is based on the candidates' qualifications and an oral examination. The knowledge of the English language is also verified. When applying, the candidate must attach a synthetic research project, in Italian or English, with a maximum length of 2500 words. The research project must be focused on the themes of the PhD course in "Sustainable Land Management" and will be discussed during the oral examination. The topics selected in the research project are not binding to identify the future research path that the selected candidates will develop during their PhD.

Notice-board for XXXVI cycle selection call

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Notice XXXVII Cycle selection call

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Oral exam marks
List of admitted candidates
Verbale valutazione dei titoli

Notice XXXVIII Cycle selection call

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List of candidates admitted to the oral examination (27/-07/2022)

PhD course "Sustainable Land Management" XXXVIII cycle: the oral exam for foreign candidates will take place electronically on the Teams platform, below is the link to be used to access the Teams platform on July 28, 2022:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a-SPUQYrt2nV6Dt6Ob6KXlAWn7F24brF-2bOl8t-VgI81%40thread.tacv2/1658749790904?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c6328dc3-afdf-40ce-846d-326eead86d49%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222cbbd9c5-050a-43d7-89f8-e991818aa2ee%22%7d

International collaborations

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During the PhD program, the student will carry out a study period in public or private foreign institutions for research needs. This period cannot exceed half duration of the program (i.e., maximum 18 months). The location for carrying out such activity must be agreed with the tutor. It must be authorized by the Program Coordinator, for periods of up to six months, or by the Teaching Body, for periods of more than six months. Currently, many international Centers are collaborating with the Teaching Body and, among them, some have permanent agreements with this PhD program:

Laboratories and libraries

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Laboratories and Equipment
The departments have several laboratories and equipment that the hosted PhD students can use. The DISAAT has an experimental field in Valenzano (BA) with greenhouses and green infrastructure and a DESERT platform to reuse wastewater. The DICATECh has 20 laboratories, such as the vast Coastal Engineering Laboratory. The DISSPA, the DMMM, the DEI, and the Physics Department include numerous laboratories related to the research areas of the Course, with wide availability of hardware and software for the development of new technologies.

Library heritage
The Central Library at Faculty of Agraria has a book patrimony of 32,500 monographs, the DISAAT library has geographic maps, CDs, manuscripts, microfiches. The Polytechnic of Bari has a central library with 46,000 volumes; the DICATECh has a library set up in 2012. The DISSPA, the DMMM, the DEI, and the Department of Physics have libraries equipped with various specialized books regarding the PhD course topics in Italian and foreign languages.
Magazines, e_resources and databases
The Central Library of Agraria Faculty has 22,100 periodicals and 25 electronic bibliographic resources (5 databases + 20 ebooks). The DICATECh library has 584 publications of paper journals, with several preserved vintages equal to 32,500. There are also 60 subscriptions to online foreign magazines and 30 subscriptions to printed magazines. DISSPA, DMMM, DEI, and the Department of Physics own numerous scientific journals in paper and electronic format.
The University of Bari's electronic resources (electronic journals and databases, such as MathSciNet, DL of the IEEE, Scifinder, ISI web of sciences; Scopus) are available to PhD students from inside and outside the local network. Polytechnic university of Bari has subscriptions with the significant engineering databases such as ScienceDirect and IEEExplore and other more specific databases (Optical Society of America, ACS, Ebsco, UNI Standards, Scopus, SpringerLink, Web of Science, Wiley) are available.

Scientific software
The research laboratories of DISAAT-UNIBA are equipped with HW / SW available for PhD students, such as DesignBuilder for EnergyPlus and MATLAB with SIMULINK for energy simulation; GaBi 8 for LCA. Other scientific software and tools are available at Polytechnic university of Bari such as ANSYS, SYSWELD, MiniTab17, Featurecam, Geomagic, Photomodeler, Agisoft photoscan, PowerMill, Mach3, Unity 5 Pro, MATLAB, COMSOL Multiphysics, CADENCE, OptiBPM, Optisystem, FIMMWAVE, L-edit; RSoft; Labview, C / C ++.

Workspaces and computational resources for PhD students
The Central Library of Agraria Faculty has a total area of 480 m2, 98 reading places, and two computer stations for users. The DISAAT has 4 other computer stations. The DICATECh library is equipped with a room with study stations for consulting the volumes and a computer station to browse electronic resources. Numerous workstations are available for PhD students within the departments. PhD students have adequate space and computing resources at all laboratories to perform their research. Furthermore, a central computing cluster at Polytechnic university of Bari can be used for intense analysis.