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Dr Maurizio Mazzoleni is an Assistant Professor at the Water and Climate Risk department of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of VU Amsterdam.
His current research activities focuses on exploring and modelling the feedbacks between water and human systems, with particular interest on the influence of human actions on the cascading impacts of consecutive extremes.
During his MSc and PhD, he collaborated to the EU Projects KULTURisk and WeSenseIt to identify probabilistic approaches for flood risk assessment and integrate crowdsourced observations in mathematical model to improve flood forecasting. After his PhD in 2016, he joined IHE Delft for 2 years as Junior Lecturer working on the BPutra and H2020 GroundTruth 2.0 Projects. In the period 2018-2020 he worked as Postdoc in the ‘HydroSocialExtremes: Unravelling the mutual shaping of hydrological extremes and society’ project, with the objective of explore and model the dynamics and risks generated by feedback mechanisms between physical, technical and social processes. In 2021 he joined IVM as Assistant Professor.
Maurizio is the coordinator of the MSc course in Water and Climate Systems and the MSc course of Global and Sustainability Analysis at VU Amsterdam. He also teaches in the MSc course Water Risk and Multidisciplinary Uncertainty and Risks ant VU, and in the MSc course Hydraulic Engineering at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden).
Expertise
Human-water modelling, Global dataset analysis, Large-scale hydrological and hydraulic modelling, Flood forecasting, Data Assimilation.
Education
2016: PhD in Hydroinformatics, TU Delft – IHE Delft, The Netherlands.
2011: MSc in Environmental Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy.
2010: BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Small-scale adaptation reduces regional drought risk: an agent-based modelling study of farmers’ adaptive behaviour in the Netherlands
Graaff, L. D., Mazzoleni, M., Wens, M. L. K., Brauer, C. C. & Loon, A. F. V., 1 Jun 2026, In: Environmental Research: Water.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Form over Function: How design expectations shape what counts as a climate service
Biella, R., Brandimarte, L., Mazzoleni, M. & Baldassarre, G. D., Aug 2026, In: Climate Services. 43, p. 1-11 11 p., 100674.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Climate Risk STAC: A living metadata catalog of geospatial data for climate risk assessments
Reimann, L., Eilander, D., Tiggeloven, T., Vuckovic, M., Kummu, M., Vajda, A., Pal, J. S., Mazzoleni, M., Wetterhall, F. & Aerts, J. C. J. H., Mar 2026, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 198, 106906.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Drought is associated with human migration in agriculture-dependent middle-income countries
Mazzoleni, M., Di Baldassarre, G., Hagström, A. & Raffetti, E., 2026, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 7, p. 1-9 9 p., 248.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Trade-offs in adaptation to water-related risks: modeling how climate services can influence pathways to transformation
Biella, R., Mazzoleni, M., Brandimarte, L. & Di Baldassarre, G., 2026, In: Frontiers in Water. 8, p. 1-17 17 p., 1706891.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Courses
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CLIMATE RISK AND VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK AND TOOLBOX
Reimann, L. (Project Researcher), Mazzoleni, M. (Project Researcher), Sestito, B. (Project Researcher), Sadana, T. (Project Researcher) & van Maanen, N. (Project Researcher)
1/01/23 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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I-CISK: Innovating Climate Services through Integrating Scientific and Local Knowledge
Schaafsma, M. (Project Researcher), van Loon, A. (Project Researcher), Muller, L. (Project Researcher), Mazzoleni, M. (Project Researcher) & Wens, M. (Project Researcher)
1/11/21 → 31/10/25
Project: Research
Datasets
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Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts
Kreibich, H. (Creator), Schröter, K. (Creator), Di Baldassarre, G. (Creator), Van Loon, A. (Creator), Mazzoleni, M. (Creator), Abeshu, G. W. (Creator), Agafonova, S. (Creator), AghaKouchak, A. (Creator), Aksoy, H. (Creator), Alvarez-Garreton, C. (Creator), Aznar, B. (Creator), Balkhi, L. (Creator), Barendrecht, M. H. (Creator), Biancamaria, S. (Creator), Bos-Burgering, L. (Creator), Bradley, C. (Creator), Budiyono, Y. (Creator), Buytaert, W. (Creator), Capewell, L. (Creator), Carlson, H. (Creator), Cavus, Y. (Creator), Couasnon, A. (Creator), Coxon, G. (Creator), Daliakopoulos, I. (Creator), de Ruiter, M. C. (Creator), Delus, C. (Creator), Erfurt, M. (Creator), Esposito, G. (Creator), François, D. (Creator), Frappart, F. (Creator), Freer, J. (Creator), Frolova, N. (Creator), Gain, A. K. (Creator), Grillakis, M. (Creator), Grima, J. (Creator), Guzmán, D. A. (Creator), Huning, L. S. (Creator), Ionita, M. (Creator), Kharlamov, M. (Creator), Khoi, D. N. (Creator), Kieboom, N. (Creator), Kireeva, M. (Creator), Koutroulis, A. (Creator), Lavado-Casimiro, W. (Creator), Li, H. (Creator), LLasat, M. C. (Creator), Macdonald, D. (Creator), Mård, J. (Creator), Mathew-Richards, H. (Creator), McKenzie, A. (Creator), Mejia, A. (Creator), Mendiondo, E. M. (Creator), Mens, M. (Creator), Mobini, S. (Creator), Mohor, G. S. (Creator), Nagavciuc, V. (Creator), Ngo-Duc, T. (Creator), Nguyen, H. T. T. (Creator), Nhi, P. T. T. (Creator), Petrucci, O. (Creator), Quan, N. H. (Creator), Quintana-Seguí, P. (Creator), Razavi, S. (Creator), Ridolfi, E. (Creator), Riegel, J. (Creator), Sadik, M. S. (Creator), Sairam, N. (Creator), Savelli, E. (Creator), Sazonov, A. (Creator), Sharma, S. (Creator), Sörensen, J. (Creator), Souza, F. A. A. (Creator), Stahl, K. (Creator), Steinhausen, M. (Creator), Stoelzle, M. (Creator), Szalińska, W. (Creator), Tang, Q. (Creator), Tian, F. (Creator), Tokarczyk, T. (Creator), Tovar, C. (Creator), Tran, T. V. T. (Creator), van Huijgevoort, M. H. J. (Creator), van Vliet, M. T. H. (Creator), Vorogushyn, S. (Creator), Wagener, T. (Creator), Wang, Y. (Creator), Wendt, D. E. (Creator), Wickham, E. (Creator), Yang, L. (Creator), Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (Creator), Ward, P. J. (Creator) & Kreibich, H. (Contributor), GFZ Data Services, 2022
DOI: 10.5880/gfz.4.4.2022.002, https://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/panmetaworks/showshort.php%3Fid=de13a641-cd4d-11ec-9531-ca1f3ed77ce8
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society
Kreibich, H. (Creator), Sivapalan, M. (Creator), AghaKouchak, A. (Creator), Addor, N. (Creator), Aksoy, H. (Creator), Arheimer, B. (Creator), Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K. (Creator), Vail-Castro, C. (Creator), Cudennec, C. (Creator), de Brito, M. M. (Creator), Di Baldassarre, G. (Creator), Finger, D. C. (Creator), Fowler, K. (Creator), Knoben, W. (Creator), Krueger, T. (Creator), Liu, J. (Creator), Macdonald, E. (Creator), McMillan, H. (Creator), Mendiondo, E. M. (Creator), Montanari, A. (Creator), Muller, M. F. (Creator), Pande, S. (Creator), Tian, F. (Creator), Viglione, A. (Creator), Wei, Y. (Creator), Castellarin, A. (Creator), Loucks, D. P. (Creator), Oki, T. (Creator), Polo, M. J. (Creator), Savenije, H. (Creator), Van Loon, A. F. (Creator), Agarwal, A. (Creator), Alvarez-Garreton, C. (Creator), Andreu, A. (Creator), Barendrecht, M. H. (Creator), Brunner, M. (Creator), Cavalcante, L. (Creator), Cavus, Y. (Creator), Ceola, S. (Creator), Chaffe, P. (Creator), Chen, X. (Creator), Coxon, G. (Creator), Dandan, Z. (Creator), Davary, K. (Creator), Dembélé, M. (Creator), Dewals, B. (Creator), (Bibikova, T. F. (Creator), Gain, A. K. (Creator), Gelfan, A. (Creator), Ghoreishi, M. (Creator), Grabs, T. (Creator), Guan, X. (Creator), Hannah, D. M. (Creator), Helmschrot, J. (Creator), Höllermann, B. (Creator), Hounkpè, J. (Creator), Koebele, E. (Creator), Konar, M. (Creator), Kratzert, F. (Creator), Lindersson, S. (Creator), Llasat, M. C. (Creator), Matanó, A. (Creator), Mazzoleni, M. (Creator), Mejia, A. (Creator), Mendoza, P. (Creator), Merz, B. (Creator), Mukherjee, J. (Creator), Saleh, F. N. (Creator), Nlend, B. (Creator), Nonki, R. M. (Creator), Orieschnig, C. (Creator), Papagiannaki, K. (Creator), Penny, G. (Creator), Petrucci, O. (Creator), Pimentel, R. (Creator), Pool, S. (Creator), Ridolfi, E. (Creator), Rusca, M. (Creator), Sairam, N. (Creator), Namboothiri, A. S. (Creator), Buarque, A. C. S. (Creator), Savelli, E. (Creator), Schoppa, L. (Creator), Schröter, K. (Creator), Scolobig, A. (Creator), Shafiei, M. (Creator), Sikorska-Senoner, A. E. (Creator), Smigaj, M. (Creator), Teutschbein, C. (Creator), Thaler, T. (Creator), Todorovic, A. (Creator), Tootoonchi, F. (Creator), Tootoonchi, R. (Creator), Toth, E. (Creator), van Nooijen, R. (Creator), Vanelli, F. M. (Creator), Vásquez, N. (Creator), Walker, D. W. (Creator), Wens, M. (Creator), Yu, D. J. (Creator), Zarei, H. (Creator), Zhou, C. (Creator) & Blöschl, G. (Creator), Taylor&Francis, 2025
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.28722550
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Climate Risk STAC: A living metadata catalog of geospatial data for climate risk assessments
Reimann, L. (Creator), Eilander, D. (Creator), Tiggeloven, T. (Creator), Vuckovic, M. (Creator), Kummu, M. (Creator), Vajda, A. (Creator), Pal, J. S. (Creator), Mazzoleni, M. (Creator), Wetterhall, F. (Creator) & Aerts, J. C. J. H. (Creator), Zenodo, 31 Oct 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14018439, https://zenodo.org/records/14018439
Dataset / Software: Software