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Marta Zaniolo

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Room 2455, Fciemas, 101 Scienc, Durham, NC 27705

Overview


Marta Zaniolo joined Duke CEE as an assistant professor in January 2024. Her research addresses timely water sustainability challenges including how to ensure reliable and affordable access to water resources in the face of scarcity, competing demands, and a changing climate. She combines the fields of hydrology and water resources modeling with machine learning and data mining techniques to enable more informed decision-making about water use at scales large and small. Zaniolo holds a BS and MS degree in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Information Technology earned in the Environmental Intelligence lab at Politecnico di Milano. Prior to joining Duke, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the CEE department at Stanford University.Learn more here: https://zeddlab.weebly.com/ 

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · 2024 - Present Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

In the News


Published September 30, 2024
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Recent Publications


Visual-Analytics Bridge Complexity and Accessibility for Robust Urban Water Planning

Journal Article Water Resources Research · April 1, 2025 Urban water resources planning is complicated by unprecedented uncertainty in supply and demand. Real-world planning often simplifies the full range of uncertainty faced by a system into a limited set of deterministic scenarios to enhance accessibility for ... Full text Cite

Intersecting Risk: Heat and Substance Use in Rural Communities.

Journal Article Substance use & misuse · January 2025 BackgroundExtreme heat has a direct impact on health and can exacerbate substance use. Rural communities are at high risk given higher rates of hospitalizations for heat related illness and the disproportionate effects of substance use. This comme ... Full text Cite

Dam Reoperation to Mitigate Changing Climate Extremes in the Omo River Basin, Ethiopia

Journal Article Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management · November 1, 2024 Climate change is projected to increase the intensity and frequency of extremes in river basins around the world. Water infrastructure such as reservoirs are often used to buffer against these extremes, enabling a more reliable water supply for human uses ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


IUCRC Planning Grant Duke University: Center for Innovation in Risk-analysis for Climate Adaptation and Decision-making (CIRCAD)

ResearchParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2025

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Education, Training & Certifications


Politecnico di Milano (Italy) · 2020 Ph.D.
Politecnico di Milano (Italy) · 2017 M.S.
Politecnico di Milano (Italy) · 2014 B.S.