Valentina Prigiobbe is assistant professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Padua.
She graduated in Environmental and Territorial Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and earned two Ph.D., one in Environmental Engineering and another in Mechanical and Process Engineering. During her first Ph.D., she worked on urban hydrology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and at the Water Research Institute of the National Research Council (IRSA-CNR). During her second Ph.D., she studied CO2 mineralization for carbon removal at ETH Zurich. She was post-doc and then research associate at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and before joining the University of Padua she was assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.


Research website: https://www.geoscienze.unipd.it/en/valentina-prigiobbe

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- CO2 mineralization
- Crystallization
- Dissolution and Leaching
- Hydrology
- Mathematical and Geochemical Modelling
- Reactive Transport in Porous Media of Solutes and Particulates (colloids, nanoparticles, bacteria, and viruses)

I am always looking for enthusiastic students interested to carry out a research project.

Please contact me (valentina.prigiobbe@unipd.it) to ask for master theses on the following topics:

- CO2 mineralization and mining of critical elements for renewable energy systems
- Transport of microplastic in water and porous media
- Transport of bacteria in soil
- Urban hydrology - modeling the interaction between aging drainage systems and coastal water and groundwater