Photo: view of the Vallon de Nant (Canton Vaud) from the summit of the Dent de Morcles © Gilles Antoniazza

Gilles Antoniazza studied Geomorphology at the University of Lausanne, graduating in 2015. His interest in watercourses began as early as his high school days, as evidenced by the title of his baccalaureate work: Le ruisseau des Vaux (Canton de Vaud): étude géomorphlogique d’un cours d’eau. During his university years, he continued his interest in river dynamics, focusing his Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on river monitoring and modelling techniques. After his Master’s degree, he carried out several internships in institutes for applied research on watercourses, in particular at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) on river ecology issues and at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) on issues related to the danger of flooding of watercourses.

In 2017, he returned to the University of Lausanne to complete a PhD thesis, under the supervision of Professor Stuart Lane and in collaboration with Dieter Rickenmann of the WSL, on the development and testing of techniques for measuring bedload in mountain streams (Bedload transport in Alpine streams: lessons from newly-emerging monitoring systems, 2023). He currently teaches and conducts research in environmental science at the University of Lausanne. In 2023, together with three colleagues, he launched the company FluvialTech, which offers private offices and public authorities a specialised river monitoring and modelling service.

For his doctoral thesis, he received the prestigious Schläfli Prize for Geosciences in 2024. The Schläfli Prize, awarded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), has been awarded since 1866 and is one of the oldest scientific prizes in Switzerland.

Gilles Antoniazza’s lecture Monitoraggio del trasporto di sedimenti nei corsi d’acqua: prospettive per la gestione fluviale (Monitoring sediment transport in watercourses: perspectives for river management) is promoted by the Competence Centre Climate Change and Territory (CCCT) SUPSI in collaboration with the Swiss Geomorphological Society (SGmS) and the Società Ticinese di Scienze Naturali (STSN).

It is scheduled for Wednesday 12 March at 18:00 on the Campus of the Department of environment constructions and design SUPSI in room A2.09 (2nd floor).

Conference in Italian, free of charge, followed by refreshments.