Alberto Viglione is an Associate Professor at the Politecnico of Turin since 2019. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2002 from the Politecnico of Turin in Environmental Engineering with a thesis on "Turbulence structures in the canopy layer''. In the years 2003-2004, he received a scholarship on the theme "Physical and hydrological characterisation of river catchments in Piedmont'', financed by Regione Piemonte (Italy). In the period 2004-2007, he carried out his Ph.D. on the theme "Non-supervised statistical methods for the prediction of hydrological variables in ungauged sites'' at the Hydraulic Department of the Politecnico of Turin. In 2009 he received the AMGA price for the best Ph.D. thesis on water resources. In the years 2007-2018, he worked as Research Fellow at the Vienna University of Technology in the field of "Flood Hydrology". In 2018 he received the habilitation in Austria as a teacher in the field of "Hydrology" with a thesis entitled "Understanding and Estimating River Flood Hazards across Timescales: from Flood Events to Long-Term Dynamics".
In the 2nd level Specializing Master's programme in Climate Change: adaptation and mitigation solutions he will lecture Coping with Extreme Events in the course Climate Change Adaptation.