Irene Simonetti
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10/2025-Present: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Hydraulic and Maritime Structures - RTT
Teaching Activities
Curriculum Vitae
2016-2025: Post-Doctoral Research fellow - Dep. of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), Florence University, with main research activities on digital twing of coastal basins, climate change impacts on waves, innovative devices for maritime and offshore engineering and development of Numerical Wave Tanks for simulating wave energy converters. 2016: PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, discussing the thesis "Optimization of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters - A Numerical Study". Final grade: Summa Cum Laude. Italian (Dottore di Ricerca) and German (Doktor Ingenieur) Ph.D. titles.
2012-2015: Joint PhD Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering – Florence University (Italy) & Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig (Germany), Joint Doctoral Program. International Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, XXVIII cycle.
2012: Laurea cum laude in Environmental Engineering - Ma.Sc. (University of Florence)
2009: Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering, Florence University, Italy.
Research Topics
Nearshore and Offshore Hydrodynamics, hydrodynamic modelling and development of digital twins of coastal basins (TWIN-COASTS project). Wave Energy Conversion technologies, with a focus on device optimization. CFD simulation of wave/coastal structure interaction with open source software (OpenFOAM). Numerical wave generation and Virtual wave flumes with CFD techniques.
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