Ph.D. in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale , 34^th cycle (2018-2021)

Ph.D. obtained in 2022

Dissertation:

Investigating green walls for greywater treatment and visualising enzymatic activity in constructed wetlands (Abstract)

Tutors:

Fulvio Boano

Profile

Research topic

Macroscale mapping of the enzymatic process in vertical flow green walls.

Research interests

Environmental Quality

Water Engineering

Biography

I graduated in B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, with an environmental final project (Numerical modelling of flows in riparian zones), then I finished my M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, focused on Land Protection. I wrote my M.Sc. final project (Quality control of D&B tunnelling profile with scanning systems) at ETSI Minas y Energía (UPM) in Madrid, working with the Explosives & Blasting Lab research group. I kept working in the mining field with the same group until I moved back to Turin. Here, I joined the group of Prof. Boano in SuperGreen project to study green wall systems for wastewater treatment.
I am now studying the enzymatic activity of the bacterial community during the wastewater treatment process in nature-based solutions. I am using an innovative imaging technique with fluorescent tracers to better understand the relation between bacteria communities and plant roots, in order to improve the design and efficiency of treatment.

Scientific branch

CEAR-01/A - Hydraulics
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)

Awards and Honors

Premio per pubblicazione di elevata qualità riferita all'anno 2021, ottenuta mediante pubblicazione legata ai temi del dottorato di ricerca (DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113646) (2022)

Teaching

Collegi of the degree programmes

Collegio di Architettura e Design. Componente
Collegio di Ingegneria Civile ed Edile. Componente invitato

Teachings

Bachelor of Science

Meccanica dei fluidi. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Collaboratore del corso

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Research

Research areas

HYDRAULICS

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

NBS4MOV - Nature-based Solutions for Mountain Villages , (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
PNRR – Mission 4

Supervised PhD students

Fabiola Cannizzaro. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (cycle 40, 2024-in progress)

Publications

Works published during the Ph.D. View all publications in Porto@Iris

Costamagna, Elisa; Raffaelli, BIANCA MARIA; Fiore, Silvia; Boano, Fulvio (2022)
Resilience to flow rate variability in a green wall for greywater treatment. In: EGU general Assembly, Vienna
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Santos, A. P.; Castedo, R.; Lopez, L. M.; Chiquito, M.; Yenes, J. I.; Alanon, A.; ... (2022)
Reinforced Concrete Building with IED Detonation: Test and Simulation. In: APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 12. ISSN 2076-3417
Contributo su Rivista
Costamagna, Elisa (2022)
Investigating green walls for greywater treatment and visualising enzymatic activity in constructed wetlands. relatore: BOANO, FULVIO; , 34. XXXIV Ciclo, P.: 117
Doctoral Thesis
Costamagna, Elisa; Oggeri, Claudio; Vinai, Raffaele (2021)
Damage and contour quality in rock excavations for quarrying and tunnelling: assessment for properties and solutions for stability. In: EUROCK 2021, Turin, 21-24 September 2021, pp. 1-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Boano, F.; Costamagna, E.; Caruso, A.; Fiore, S.; Chiappero, M.; Galvao, A.; Pisoeiro, ... (2021)
Evaluation of the influence of filter medium composition on treatment performances in an open-air green wall fed with greywater. In: JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, vol. 300. ISSN 0301-4797
Contributo su Rivista
Boano, Fulvio; Caruso, Alice; Costamagna, Elisa; Fiore, Silvia; Demichelis, Francesca; ... (2021)
Assessment of the Treatment Performance of an Open-Air Green Wall Fed with Graywater under Winter Conditions. In: ACS ES&T WATER, vol. 1, pp. 595-602. ISSN 2690-0637
Contributo su Rivista
Boano, Fulvio; Caruso, Alice; Costamagna, Elisa; Ridolfi, Luca; Fiore, Silvia; ... (2020)
A review of nature-based solutions for greywater treatment: applications, hydraulic design, and environmental benefits. In: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 711, pp. 1-26. ISSN 0048-9697
Contributo su Rivista
Costamagna, Elisa; Gagnon, Vincent; Boano, Fulvio (2019)
OPENING THE BLACK BOX: FLUORESCENCE-BASED IMAGING OF SPATIAL PATTERNS OF MICROBIAL ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY IN A VEGETATED WALL FOR DOMESTIC GRAYWATER TREATMENT. In: 8th International Symposium on Wetland Pollutant Dynamics and Control, Aarhus - Danimarca, 17-21 Giugno 2019, pp. 230-230. ISBN: 978-87-971486-0-0
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Boano, Fulvio; Caruso, Alice; Costamagna, Elisa; Fiore, Silvia; Demichelis, Francesca; ... (2019)
SUSTAINABLE TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC GREYWATER BY GREEN WALLS FOR REUSE. In: 8th International Symposium on Wetland Pollutant Dynamics and Control, Aarhus - Danimarca, 17-21 Giugno 2019, pp. 157-157. ISBN: 978-87-971486-0-0
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Costamagna, Elisa; Gagnon, Vincent; Boano, Fulvio (2019)
Opening the black box: fluorescein-based imaging of spatial patterns of microbial enzymatic activity in a vegetated wall for domestic graywater treatment. In: 8th International Symposium on Wetland Pollutat Dynamics and Control, Aarhus (Denmark), 17-21 June 2019, pp. 230-230. ISBN: 978-87-971486-1-7
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Costamagna, Elisa; Oggeri, Claudio; Ricardo, Castedo; Pablo, Segarra; Juan, Navarro (2018)
Assessment of contour profile quality in D&B tunnelling. In: TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 75, pp. 67-80. ISSN 0886-7798
Contributo su Rivista
Navarro, J.; Sanchidrián, J. A.; Segarra, P.; Castedo, R.; Costamagna, E.; López, L. M. (2018)
Detection of potential overbreak zones in tunnel blasting from MWD data. In: TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 82, pp. 504-516. ISSN 0886-7798
Contributo su Rivista

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Elisa Costamagna

Ph.D. in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale , 34th cycle (2018-2021)