Davide Vanzo research focuses on river hydro-morphodynamic processes and their mutual feedback with river ecosystems, such as: sediment dynamics, pollutant and thermal transport in rivers, vegetation and habitat dynamics.

• Transport Processes in Rivers
• Landscape and River Morphology
• River Engineering
• Umweltphysik/Energie

• Leadership Team member of IAHR Technical Committee on Ecohydraulics
• Committee Member of the Early Careers on Ecohydraulics Network (ECoENet)
• Member of Scientific Board and Developer in the BASEMENT software project

Venus, T. E., Ola, O., Alp, M., Bätz, N., Bejarano, M. D., Boavida, I., ... & Hayes, D. (2025). The power of hydropeaking: Trade-offs between flexible hydropower and river ecosystem services in Europe.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108583

Bätz, N., Judes, C., Vanzo, D., Lamouroux, N., Capra, H., Baumgartner, J., ... & Weber, C. (2025). Patch-scale habitat dynamics: three metrics to assess ecological impacts of frequent hydropeaking. Journal of Ecohydraulics, 10(1), 79-106.
https://doi.org/10.1080/24705357.2024.2426790

Naudascher, R., Boes, R. M., Fernandez, V., Wittmann, J., Holzner, M., Vanzo, D., ... & Stocker, R. (2024). Fine-scale movement response of juvenile brown trout to hydropeaking. Science of The Total Environment, 952, 175679.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175679

Tritthart, M., Vanzo, D., Chavarrías, V., Siviglia, A., Sloff, K., & Mosselman, E. (2024). Why do published models for fluvial and estuarine morphodynamics use unrealistic representations of the effects of transverse bed slopes?. Advances in Water Resources, 193, 104831.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2024.104831

Altmann, M., Vanzo, D., Valero, D., & Schalko, I. (2024). A simple approach to simulate logjams in two-dimensional hydrodynamic models. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 150(4), 06024002.
https://doi.org/10.1061/JHEND8.HYENG-13713