"May their wishes come true that they can believe in them and that they can laugh at their passions and above all that they can believe in themselves and that they become helpless like children because weakness is power and strength is nothing"
Armando Di Nardo, Naples, a few years ago
- Civil engineer with PhD in hydraulic-environmental engineering, associate professor at theUniversity of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", expert in Smart WAter Network (SWAN) and Permeable Adsorbing Barrier (PAB).
- Author of over 130 technical-scientific works, published in Italian and international conference proceedings, books and magazines. Furthermore, co-author, together with his research group, of the most read and cited books on contamination and the remediation hypotheses of the contaminated site of Masseria del Pozzo-Schiavi in Giugliano in Campania (NA).
- Leader of a Action Group of the European Innovation Partnerships for the optimal management of water resources (which is joined by over 50 companies, universities and institutions from various European countries and beyond).
- Councilor from 2006 to 2008 in a technical council of Municipality of Giugliano in Campania with the following mandates: Urban Planning, Environment, Territorial Redevelopment, Integrated Water Service, Civil Protection, Training, Innovation, Youth Policies and Negotiated Planning. Main objectives achieved: recovery of approximately 20 million euros in arrears of water fees in less than two years; establishment of the environment office; start of preliminary investigations of the Masseria del Pozzo-Schiavi site (with regional/European funds); definition of the vast area of Masseria del Pozzo-Schiavi and start of procedures for the characterization plan; completion, with council measures, of thousands of building amnesty procedures that have been in arrears for over 25 years.
- Superordinated since 2016 by Prefecture of Naples (pursuant to art. 145, paragraph 1 of Legislative Decree 267/00) in the extraordinary management of the Municipality of Giugliano in Campania with functions of superintendence, collaboration, supervision and control - as well as making proposals, consulting, directing and representing - on the activities of the Managers/Service Managers of the relevant Sectors, with delegations in the Urban Planning and Environment sectors.
- Creator in 2012 of HUB spa, the first joint-stock company for social innovation, with seventy members (professionals, businesses, researchers, teachers, innovators) and an office in Giugliano in Campania, in the heart of the Land of Fires, created with the aim of promoting and experimenting with coworking, digital prototyping and crowdfunding, of supporting startups and of networking, training and research with the best energies and experiences of the country and contributing to relaunching Southern Italy.
- Co-founder and President, for over 6 years, of Italian Institute for European Studies Foundation, founded in 2001 together with several young university students and the lawyer Gerardo Marotta, President ofItalian Institute for Philosophical Studies, with which hundreds of conferences and cultural initiatives have been organised, a publishing series has been managed and a public library with over 2,000 volumes has been established.
- Co-founder of a university spinoff Environmental Technologies srl.
- Speaker at over one hundred national and international conferences in different parts of the world on scientific topics related to the optimal management of water resources and environmental remediation and the innovation of technology transfer processes, the launch of startups, social innovation and territorial development.
- Research group member of the following national and international projects: PON R&S IT SISCO (Integrated system of technologies and services for the management, control and optimization of aqueduct water networks); MEDOCC INTERREG IIIB EU HYDRANET; PON R&S named WAMAC (Water Management Control); PON R&S IT P.O.ST.FLU (Design and optimization of prototype simulation structures for coastal fluid dynamics and geofluid dynamics studies); PON R&S IT C.H.E.E.S.E. (Cultural Heritage Emotional Experience See-through Eyewear); PON R&S IT DIMODI (Mobile Device for Hydrocarbon Desorption); HORIZON2020 EU HELENIC-REF (Hybrid Electric Energy Integrated Cluster concerning Renewable Fuels); HORIZON2020 EU InnoSMART (An Innovative Method for Improving the Structural Integrity using SMA Revolutionary Technology); PRIN 2017 IT (Optimal management of a district water network: theoretical analysis and experimentation on a pilot site).
- Editor and blogger of opinion and innovation magazines and blogs (CheFuturo, Sparks, Uqbar, Corriere d'Europa, etc.)
- Reviewer of the following scientific journals: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Journal of Engineering Optimization, Journal of Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, Journal of Urban Water, Journal of Water Supply Research and Technology, Journal of Environmental Earth Sciences, Journal of Maejo International Journal of Science and Technology, Journal of Water Policy, Journal Of Irrigation and Dranage Engineering, Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Environmental Modeling & Software, Journal of Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Journal of Hydroinformatics, L'Acqua
- Member of national and international juries for company and startup competitions.
- Invited guest of Next "The Republic of Ideas" of Naples (2015).