Mariacrocetta Sambito obtained her PhD in territorial infrastructures at the "Kore" University of Enna (Italy) in 2020 by discussing a thesis on the optimal positioning of water quality sensors in urban drainage networks, with the creation of a mathematical model in C language which embeds a Bayesian probabilistic approach in a sewer network model including uncertainty assessment and the recursive implementation of a measurement database. She has been an organizing member of the 13th Hydroinformatics International Conference and guest editor of several special issues and is currently also on the reviewer board of Resources and Water Journal (MDPI) as well as a voluntary reviewer in several others (publishers: MDPI, T&F, IWA, etc.). In 2018, she was the winner of the award for the best paper written and presented by a PhD student at the International Conference on Hydroinformatics. She also spent a short period at Dublin City University (Ireland), during which she was able to carry out her research and establish international relations. Furthermore, she is a member of IAHR and IWA and was recently invited as a speaker at the first online forum on "Digital Transformation of Urban Water Systems" organized by IAHR. She currently is Assistant Professor at the University of Enna “Kore” (Italy) for the implementation of numerical modeling of brackish water infiltration in sewers at urban basin scale, and in general, she mainly deals with water quality and urban drainage systems.
