Stefano Mambretti currently serves as Associate Professor of Hydraulics at the Faculty of Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. In 2012 he served as a visiting professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in Brazil. He graduated in Civil Engineering at the Politecnico in 1991 (winning the "Noseda Prize" as best graduate in Hydraulics that year) and was awarded a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering in 1995. In 1997 he was appointed as Vice Chief of Public Works in an important municipality, in 1999 he became Assistant Professor in Hydraulics, and in 2003 he was appointed Associate Professor.

Stefano Mambretti also worked as a private consultant, for a number of projects in urban infrastructures in Djibouti, Kuwait, Algeria, Tanzania, Iraq, gaining renowned expertise, mainly in the field of waterhammer.

Dr. Mambretti is the author or co-author of numerous publications (peer-reviewed scientific papers, key-note lectures, conference papers, books, and technical reports) in the areas of water phenomena, as urban infrastructures (sewer and water distribution systems), fluid dynamics and rheology of debris and hyper-concentrated flows, water resources use and management, using both advanced laboratory and field observation techniques and mathematical simulation models. He is the co-editor of the WIT Press book Dam-Break Problems, Solutions and Case Studies, published in 2009, and sole editor of the WIT Press books Landslides and Flood Risk Assessment and Management, published 2011, and Tsunami: From Fundamentals to Damage Mitigation, published 2013.