Laurea cum laude in Geology (1991), at University of Bologna
(Italy). Research Director at the Institute of Marine
Sciences, O.U. Marine Geology (Bologna) of the Italian National
Research Council (CNR). He took part to, or organized, several
oceanographic expeditions, in the Mediterranean Sea and in the
Atlantic, Pacific and Subantarctic oceans; he is author of several
publications in international journals such as Nature, Journal of
Geophysical Research, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, etc..
Main interests are: geophysical methods, structural geology,
seismic stratigraphy, plate tectonic reconstructions, submarine
paleoseismology, impact cratering and marine technologies.
