Alessandro Amorosi

Alessandro Amorosi - CV

Born in Bologna (Italy), 22 March 1963.

Full professor – Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna. Italy.

Education

• 1993-1991: PhD in Earth Sciences, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Advisor: Gilles Serge Odin
• 1991-1989: PhD in Earth Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy. Advisor: Franco Ricci Lucchi
• 1986: Degree in Geology, University of Bologna, Italy. 110/110 cum laude.
  

Employment and Academic positions

• Present–2002: Full Professor, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, University of Bologna, Italy
• 2002–1997: Research Scientist, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Bologna, Italy
• 1997–1989: Consultant, Geological Survey of Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Current research

• High-resolution sequence stratigraphy
• Facies analysis
• Quaternary Geology
• Source-to-sink analysis
• Sediment provenance
• Environmental sedimentology
• Glauconitic minerals and stratigraphic condensation

Publications

• 161 papers (Scopus)

H-index

• 42 (Scopus)
  

Citations

• 6007 (April 2024 - Scopus)

Awards

• 1993: Doctor Communitatis Europeae, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France – PhD dissertation defense in three languages of the European Union, Committee from three countries of the EU
• 2002-2022: ranked ‘top researcher’ at Bologna University in the field of Earth Sciences (Area 04) for 21 consecutive years (RFO/VRA)

Research evaluation

• External reviewer for research projects under competitive financing in the United States, Chile, The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Italy
• External evaluator on PhD committees in Australia, France, Sweden and The Netherlands, External evaluator on a HDR Committee in France
• 2017–2014: Vice-Coordinator of the PhD program in Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
• 2019-2016: Judging Committee – International Petroleum Geology Student Contest, Calvello, Italy
• 2020–2013: Member of the University Research Evaluation Committee (VRA), University of Bologna, Italy, Section: Earth Sciences (Area 04).
• 2015-2010: Member of Collegio Superiore, School of Excellence of Bologna University

Editor-in-Chief:

• GeoActa - an International Journal of Earth Sciences (2002-2013)

Editorial Board Member:

• Quaternary International (2016-2021)
• China Geology (2023-)
• Marine Geology (2023-)

International ISI Journal Peer-Reviewer

• 2022-2005: 225 scientific papers reviewed for 52 ISI journals

Research funding as Principal Investigator (2,7 M€)

• 2025-2023: PRIN 2022: Refining the sequence stratigraphic model through high-resolution onshore-offshore correlation (ON/OFF): The late Quaternary succession of the Po-Adriatic system, MUR, 219,744 EUR
• 2025-2023: PRIN 2022 PNRR: CLimate forcing On Adriatic SEa deoxygenation: A multi-archive Reconstruction of Sapropel S1 (CLOSER), MUR, 37,875 EUR
• 2026-2022: CARG Project - Sheet 183 Suzzara, ISPRA, 350,000 EUR
• 2024-2020: CARG Project - Sheet 184 Mirandola, ISPRA, 350,000 EUR
• 2023-2019: PRIN 2017, The Po-Adriatic Source-to-Sink system (PASS): from modern sedimentary processes to millennial-scale stratigraphic architecture, MIUR, 641,000 EUR
• 2021-2019: High-resolution subsurface stratigraphy of the Ferrara and Ravenna plain, Geological, Seismic and Soil Survey, Regione Emilia-Romagna, 50,809 EUR
• 2017-2014: Quaternary sequence stratigraphy of the Po Plain-Northern Adriatic system: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Houston, USA. 725,000 USD
• 2016-2014: European GeoMol project, Assessing subsurface potentials of the Alpine Foreland Basins for sustainable planning and use of natural resources: Regione Lombardia
• 2014-2007: Background values of potentially toxic metals in soils of the Po Plain: Geological, Seismic and Soil Survey, Regione Emilia-Romagna
• 2009-2008: Subsurface stratigraphy along the Bologna Underground Line 1: GEODATA
• 2006-2004: Pedogeochemical Map of the Po Plain: Geological Survey, Regione Emilia-Romagna
• 2006-2004: EUROMARGINS project: Links between sequence stratigraphy and the mineralogical, geochemical and reservoir-quality evolution of deep-marine clastic deposits European Science Foundations
• 2005: "Strategic project" Late Quaternary climatic evolution of the Mediterranean area: University of Bologna

Current teaching position

Full professor – Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna. Italy. Courses taught:

• Stratigraphy and Sedimentology (Undergraduate Course): 8 CFU
• Advanced Methods in Stratigraphy (Graduate Course): 7 CFU
• Global Climate Changes in the Geological Past (Module 1) (Graduate Course): 3 CFU

Language skills

• Italian, native language
• English, fluent
• French, fluent
• Spanish,basic
• German, basic