Bruno Brunone is the WP3 leader of the MORE4WATER project.

With 40 as a total years research experience in research,  he received a M.Sc. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of Napoli ‘Federico II’. He is a Professor, founder and  Director of the Water Engineering Laboratory (WEL) of the University of Perugia (http://welabpg.com). He is an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering and Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management; MDPI Journal of Marine Science and Engineering and Water; he has been the chair of CCWI2013 and WDSA2014 Int. Confs, promoter and chair of the series of the Italian Confs on pipe systems (eleven editions, since 2003).

His present research concerns: transient test-based techniques for the analysis of pipe system performance throughout the urban environment (fault/leak detection); devices for pressure wave generation and their use in real pipe systems; modelling of transients in pressurized pipe systems: unsteady friction simulation, viscoelastic effects in polymeric pipes; management of groundwater and lakes by atmospheric global datasets. 

Bruno Brunone received the following awards “Leak detection in a real transmission main through transient tests: deeds and misdeeds”: Water Resources Research, AGU: 2021 Editors’ Choice Award; 2022: Outstanding Reviewer for the ASCE J. Pipeline Syst. Eng. Pract.; 2018: J. C. Stevens Award by the Environmental and Water Resources Inst. (EWRI); 2016: Sustainability Award for the Portable Pressure Wave Maker (PPWM) device by H2O Bologna International Water Exhibition; 1983: Accademia Pontaniana Award, Napoli.