Senior Technologist
Research Infrastructures for marine biological resources Department
Infrastructure for Marine Research
Coordinator: Simonepietro Canese
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Villa Comunale
80121 Napoli - Italia
Tel.: +39 081 5833 326
Fax: +39 081 7641355 - +39 081 5833360
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Research Interests
My primary research interests have revolved around the study and modelling of transport processes in marine environment, with a major focus on coupled physical-biological interactions. My work is carried out through a multidisciplinary approach, integrating in situ observations, individual organisms’ behaviour, hydrodynamic, biological and chemical data with numerical simulations, with the first goal of determining the impact of the physical processes on marine ecosystems. Part of my career is focused on coastal oceanography, with an interdisciplinary perspective by which studying the functioning and shaping of aquatic ecosystems. measurements.
Selected Publications
Bellardini D., Russo L., Canese S., Cianelli D., Conversano F., Licandro P., Paoli C., Passarelli A., Saviano S., D’Alelio D. and Vassallo P. (2026) Natural Capital Dynamics in Coastal Planktonic Systems: A Biophysical Accounting Perspective, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 227, 119461, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2026.11946
Gifuni L., de Ruggiero P., Cianelli D., Drofa O., Davolio S., Pierini S., Zambianchi E., (2025) Impact of wind forcing on surface transport in the Gulf of Naples. Sci Rep 15, 39588, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16851-3
Trainiti G.M., Cianelli D., Piscopo V., Zambianchi E. (2025) Oil spill model in the Gulf of Naples following collision events, Ocean Engineering, 342, Part 3, 123081, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.123081
D’Ambra I, Saviano S, Ambrosio MA, Botte V, Iudicone D, Mazzocchi MG, Merquiol L., Cianelli D., (2025) Tracking Pelagia noctiluca scyphomedusae by combining modeling and stable isotope approaches. Front. Mar. Sci. 12:1608726. https://doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1608726
Bosso L., Saviano S., Chiusano M.L., Miralto M., Raffini F., Botte V., Kokoszka F., Conversano F., Margiotta F., Abagnale M., Bellardini D., Furia M., Russo L., Vargiu M., Montresor M., Sarno D., Percopo I., Cipolletta F., Del Gaizo G., Carotenuto Y., Mazzocchi M.G., Licandro P., Vannini J., Zampicinini G., Casotti R., Trano A.C., Donnarumma V., Mangoni O., Bolinesi F., Saggiomo M., Buondonno A., De Domenico F., Laface F., Pedà C., Cianelli D., D'Alelio D. (2025) GIS-based integration ofmarine data for assessment and management of a highly anthropized coastal area, Scientific Reports, 15, 16200, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-00206-z
Bellardini D., Russo L., Di Tuccio V., De Luca D., Del Gaizo G., Zampicinini G., Botte V., Colloca F., Conversano F., De Luca P., Iudicone D., Margiotta F., Saviano S., Kokoszka F., Vassallo P., Cianelli D., D’Alelio D. (2024) Spatio-temporal changes of pelagic food webs investigated by environmental DNA metabarcoding and connectivity analysis. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society B), 379, 20230178, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0178
Saviano, S.; Biancardi, A.A.; Uttieri, M.; Zambianchi, E.; Cusati, L.A.; Pedroncini, A.; Cianelli, D. (2023) HF radar wind direction: multiannual analysis using model and HF network, Remote Sensing, (15), 12, 2991, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15122991
Gifuni L., de Ruggiero P., Cianelli D., Pierini S., Zambianchi E. (2023) Numerical investigation of the three-dimensional paths of plastic polymers in the Gulf of Naples, Marine Pollution Bulletin (193), 115259 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115259
Ciannelli, L., Cannavacciuolo, A., Konstandinidis, P., Mirasole, A., Wong-Ala, J. A. T. K., Guerra, M. T., D'Ambra, I., Riginella, E., and Cianelli, D. (2022), Ichthyoplankton assemblages and physical characteristics of two submarine canyons in the south central Tyrrhenian Sea, Fisheries Oceanography, 31, 5, 480-496 https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12596
Reyes, E., Aguiar, E., Bendoni, M., Berta, M., Brandini, C., Cáceres-Euse, A., Capodici, F., Cardin, V., Cianelli, D., Ciraolo, G., Corgnati, L., Dadić, V., Doronzo, B., Drago, A., Dumas, D., Falco, P., Fattorini, M., Fernandes, M. J., Gauci, A., Gómez, R., Griffa, A., Guérin, C.-A., Hernández-Carrasco, I., Hernández-Lasheras, J., Ličer, M., Lorente, P., Magaldi, M. G., Mantovani, C., Mihanović, H., Molcard, A., Mourre, B., Révelard, A., Reyes-Suárez, C., Saviano, S., Sciascia, R., Taddei, S., Tintoré, J., Toledo, Y., Uttieri, M., Vilibić, I., Zambianchi, E., and Orfila, A. (2022) Coastal high-frequency radars in the Mediterranean – Part 2: Applications in support of science priorities and societal needs, Ocean Sci., 18, 797–837, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-797-2022, 2022
Saviano, S.; Biancardi, A.A.; Uttieri, M.; Zambianchi, E.; Cusati, L.A.; Pedroncini, A.; Contento, G.; Cianelli, D. Sea storm analysis: evaluation of multiannual wave parameters retrieved from HF radar and wave model, (2022), Remote Sensing, 14, 1696. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14071696
Cianelli D., D’Alelio D., Uttieri M., Sarno D., Zingone A., Zambianchi E. and Ribera d’Alcalà M. (2017) Disentangling physical and biological drivers of phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal system, Scientific Reports, 7, 15868, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15880-x
Falco P., Buonocore B., Cianelli D., De Luca L., Giordano A., Iermano I., Kalampokis A., Saviano S., Uttieri S., Zambardino G., Zambianchi E. (2016) Dynamics and sea state in the Gulf of Naples: potential use of HF radar data in an operational oceanographic context, Journal of Operational Oceanography – 9(1), s33-s45. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755876X.2015.1115633
