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Dr Michele Trevisson
Resident Fellow
UWA School of Earth Sciences & UWA Oceans Institute
Bio
Dr Trevisson grew up in Italy and did his undergraduate degree at Italy’s University of Trento (2010-2013) before obtaining a dual Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and in Environmental and Land Engineering from the University of Trento (2014-2016). He continued his research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology obtaining his PhD in 2021 with a dissertation entitled “Sweep and clean: A laboratory investigation on fine-sediment erosion in immobile coarse-grained beds”. After his PhD, Dr Trevisson stayed on for almost 2 years (2022-2023) at the Institute of Hydromechanics before taking up a post-doctoral position in 2024 at UWA with in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Group led by Prof. M. Ghisalberti. Here he’s experimentally analysing the physical processes behind pollution dispersion in rivers and teaches a class on Fluvial Hydraulics within UWA’s Master in Environmental Engineering course.
Research Summary
Dr Trevisson’s research at UWA focusses on mass transport at the flow-roughness interface. He seeks to experimentally understand the mechanisms by which passive scalars (such as nutrients or temperature) are transported in and out of the living roughness, such as vegetation, urban canopies or sediment beds. For this purpose, he combines particle image velocimetry with planar laser induced fluorescence for velocity and concentration measurement, respectively.
He is also interested in the physical processes governing sediment transport in rivers. His research in this field tries to unravel the role turbulence plays in moving sediment grains and in forming large-scale bedforms, such as dunes or flow-parallel ribbons.
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Work and Education History
2024-now: Postdoctoral Fellow, UWA School of Earth Sciences & UWA Oceans Institute
2022-2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Hydromechanics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
2016 – 2021: PhD in Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
2018: Certified Engineer, Italian State Exam for the Engineers
2013 – 2016: Double Master’s in Environmental and Land Engineering (University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Italy) & Master’s in Civil Engineering (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Civil, Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences, Germany)
2010 - 2013 Bachelor of Environmental and Land Engineering (Hons), University of Trento, Italy