Team

Research Interests

• Electrokinetic transport processes in the subsoil: driving mechanisms, interplay of pore water chemistry and porous media properties on migration and mixing

• Targeted remediation of low-permeability layers with Electrokinetic: understanding clay behavior under electric fields, optimization of conditions for amendment delivery

• Coupling Electrokinetics and Bioremediation: response of bacteria to electric field, electrokinetic migration of bacteria, nutrient/substrate supply to bacteria with electrokinetic

• Solutes and colloid transport in porous media under advection and/or electrokinetic transport

• Laboratory practice for the experimental investigation of transport processes in porous media: imaging of dye tracing tests, construction of 1D-2D experimental set-ups, definition and optimization of experimental protocols

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Curriculum Vitae

Since 2024: Post-Doc Researcher at the Aquatic Geochemistry Group at TU Darmstadt (IAG)

2022-2024: Post-Doc Researcher at DTU Sustain – Technical University of Denmark and Visiting Researcher at the Aquatic Geochemistry Group at TU Darmstadt (IAG)

2021-2022: Post-Doc Researcher at the Groundwater Engineering group at Politecnico di Torino – Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering

2017-2021: PhD scholarship at the Groundwater Engineering group at Politecnico di Torino – Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering

2016-2017: Research scholarship at the Groundwater Engineering group at Politecnico di Torino – Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering

2013-2015: MSc degree in Environmental Chemistry at University of Turin

2009-2013: BSc degree in Chemistry at University of Turin

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Publications

Sprocati, R., Gallo, A., Wienkenjohann, H., & Rolle, M. (2023); “Temperature-dependent dynamics of electrokinetic conservative and reactive transport in porous media: A model-based analysis”; Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, , https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCONHYD.2023.104261

Sprocati, R., Gallo, A., Caspersen, M. B., & Rolle, M. (2023); “Impact of variable density on electrokinetic transport and mixing in porous media”; Advances in Water Resources, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ADVWATRES.2023.104422

Gallo, A., Sprocati, R., Rolle, M., & Sethi, R. (2022); “Electrokinetic delivery of permanganate in clay inclusions for targeted contaminant degradation”; Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCONHYD.2022.104102

Sprocati, R., Gallo, A., Sethi, R., & Rolle, M. (2021); “Electrokinetic Delivery of Reactants: Pore Water Chemistry Controls Transport, Mixing, and Degradation”; Environmental Science & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06054

Gallo A., Sethi R. (2017); “Microscopic zero valent silver for dye removal in wastewater”; Chemical Engineering Transactions, https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1760031

Gallo, A., Bianco, C., Tosco, T., Tiraferri, A., & Sethi, R. (2019); “Synthesis of eco-compatible bimetallic silver/iron nanoparticles for water remediation and reactivity assessment on bromophenol blue”; Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2018.10.298

Gallo A., Bianco C., Tosco T., Sethi R. (2019); “Characterization and reactivity of novel silver/iron nanoparticles”; Materials Todays: Proceedings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2019.07.651

Mondino, F., Piscitello, A., Bianco, C., Gallo, A., de Folly D’Auris, A., Tosco, T., Tagliabue, M., & Sethi, R. (2020); “Injection of Zerovalent Iron Gels for Aquifer Nanoremediation: Lab Experiments and Modeling”; Water, https://doi.org/10.3390/w12030826

Minella, M.; De Bellis, N.; Gallo, A.; Giagnorio, M.; Minero, C.; Bertinetti, S.; Sethi, R.; Tiraferri, A.; Vione, D. (2018); “Coupling of Nanofiltration and Thermal Fenton Reaction for the Abatement of Carbamazepine in Wastewater”; ACS Omega, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b01055