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Portrait: Cristiano Ballabio

Cristiano Ballabio graduated in Environmental Sciences, at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been working as a free-lance consultant in soil and environmental sciences, focusing mostly on GIS and mapping.

After two years as a free-lance consultant, he went back to academy work on landslide hazard as a research fellow within the frame of the ALARM project. At the end of the ALARM project he enrolled in a PhD course in Geology and geotechnologies at the University of Milano-Bicocca, focusing on spatial statistics and studying radioactive contamination in the Alps. During the PhD he spent several months at the Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture, University of Sydney (Australia) as a visiting student.

After getting the PhD degree he worked as a research fellow at the Department of Environmental and Land Sciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been a lecturer in Environmental Geology in the University of Milano-Bicocca and lecturer of Spatial Statistics in training courses of different governmental institutions. Beside mapping related skills he possess a solid experience in soil surveys, with experience as a field surveyor in very diverse environments all around the world.

He joined jrc in 2012 to work on the Global Soil Map.net project.
Main research topics include:
- Digital Soil Mapping and Pedometrics
- Groundwater pollution hazard estimation and mapping
- Landslide hazard mapping
- Soil pollution mapping and risk assessment
- Spatial ecology

Contact details:

Position:	post-doc (cat. 30)
Competences:	Digital Soil Mapping, Pedometrics, Spatial ecology
Unit:	Land Resource Management – Soil action
Phone:	+39 0332 / .....
Fax:	+39 0332 / 786394
Email:	cristiano.ballabio(at)jrc.ec.europa.eu

Publications in Peer-reviewed scientific journals

Sorichetta, A., Masetti, M., Ballabio, C., Sterlacchini, S., Aquifer nitrate vulnerability assessment using positive and negative Weights of Evidence methods, Milan, Italy, Computers & Geosciences, Available online 29 May 2012, ISSN 0098-3004
Ballabio, C., Fava, F., Rosenmund, A. A plant ecology approach to digital soil mapping, improving the prediction of soil organic carbon content in alpine grasslands (2012) Geoderma, 187-188, pp. 102-116.
Ballabio, C., Sterlacchini, S., Support Vector Machines for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: The Staffora River Basin Case Study, Italy (2012) Mathematical Geosciences, 44 (1), pp. 47-70.
Tato, L., Tremolada, P., Ballabio, C., Guazzoni, N., Parolini, M., Caccianiga, M., Binelli, A. Seasonal and spatial variability of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in vegetation and cow milk from a high altitude pasture in the Italian Alps (2011) Environmental Pollution, 159 (10), pp. 2656-2664.
Sorichetta, A., Masetti, M., Ballabio, C., Sterlacchini, S., Beretta, G.P. Reliability of groundwater vulnerability maps obtained through statistical methods (2011) Journal of Environmental Management, 92 (4), pp. 1215-1224.
Sterlacchini, S., Ballabio, C., Blahut, J., Masetti, M., Sorichetta, A. Spatial agreement of predicted patterns in landslide susceptibility maps (2011) Geomorphology, 125 (1), pp. 51-61.
Ballabio, C. and Comolli, R., Digital Soil Mapping: Bridging Research, Environmental Application, and Operation, chapter Mapping Heavy Metal Content in Soils with Multi- Kernel SVR and LIDAR Derived Data. Springer, 2010
Tremolada, P., Parolini, M., Binelli, A., Ballabio, C., Comolli, R., Provini, A. Preferential retention of POPs on the northern aspect of mountains (2009) Environmental Pollution, 157 (12), pp. 3298-3307.
Blahut, J., Sterlacchini, S., Ballabio, C. Effect of the input parameters on the spatial variability of landslide susceptibility maps derived by statistical methods. case study of the valtellina valley (italian central alps) [Priestorová variabilita máp náchylnosti území na vznik zosuvov. príkladová štúdia údolia valtellina (talianske centrálne alpy)] (2009) Geograficky Casopis, 61 (1), pp. 3-18.
Ballabio, C. Spatial prediction of soil properties in temperate mountain regions using support vector regression (2009) Geoderma, 151 (3-4), pp. 338-350.
Tremolada, P., Parolini, M., Binelli, A., Ballabio, C., Comolli, R., Provini, A. Seasonal changes and temperature-dependent accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in high-altitude soils (2009) Science of the Total Environment, 407 (14), pp. 4269-4277.
Masetti, M., Sterlacchini, S., Ballabio, C., Sorichetta, A., Poli, S. Influence of threshold value in the use of statistical methods for groundwater vulnerability assessment (2009) Science of the Total Environment, 407 (12), pp. 3836-3846
Fabbri, A.G., Remondo, J., Ballabio, C., Poli, S., Chung, C.F., Scholten, H.J. Occurrence neighbourhoods and risk assessment from landslide hazard in northern Spain (2008) WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, 39, pp. 29-41.

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