CURRENT POSITION
03/2005- Associate Professor at the University of Bologna,
faculty of Sciences MM. FF. NN., degree course in Physics. She
belongs to the Scientific and Disciplinary Area GEO/10 (Solid-Earth
Geophysics) and Department of Physics (sector of Geophysics).
On 26/01/22 she got the italian scientific abilitation (ASN) to the role of full professor in SSD GEO/10.
EDUCATION
23/10/1990 Degree in Physics, University of Bologna, grade:
110/110 cum Laude.
1991-1993 PhD student in Physics with geophysical curriculum,
University of Bologna (supervised by Prof. Maurizio Bonafede).
19/9/1994 PhD in Physics (award date),
Thesis: "Postseismic relaxation and rheological structure of
fault zones” (in Italian).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
02/1994-002/199402/1994-06/1995
Research fellow of Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica.
07/1995-02/1996 Post-Doctoral research fellow of
University of Bologna.
03/1996-02/1998 Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di
Geofisica, Roma (ex art. 23 D.P.R. n. 171/'91).
03/1998-02/2005 Researcher of University of Bologna.
RESPONSABILITIES
2000-2017
Member of the College of Teachers of the PhD course in
Geophysics, University of Bologna.
2006-
Coordinator of the research project: RFO 2006 (University of
Bologna, committee 04 Earth Sciences).
10/2008-05/2010
Vice-coordinator of the PhD course in Geophysics, University of
Bologna.
2011
Reference person of the PhD course in Geophysics, University of
Bologna, for the program Erasmus Mundus Action 2.
11/2011-7/2012
She co-operated with Prof. Maurizio Bonafede and Prof. Rolando
Rizzi (University of Bologna) in order to ask the Bologna
University to open a new Master's degree course in Earth System
Physics (being part of the Committee Charged with this aim by
the members of the current Council of the Master's degree
course in Earth System Physics).
Currently she is member of the Committe for Quality Assurance of the CdS Fisica del Sistema Terra.
2017-
Member of the Editorial Board of Annals of Geophysics
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
General interests:
Deformation source models
Fault mechanics and rheology
Fault interaction and fault-volcano interaction.
Member of research units of several national and international
projects:
CNR-GNGTS (1998,2001),Murst 40% (1998-9,1999-2000,2001-2), Murst
60%, RFO, Firb (2003-2004), Project EEC PRENLAB
(1/3/1996-28/2/1998), PRENLAB 2 (1/4/1998-30/06/2000), EVG1
PREPARED (1/2/2003-31/7/2005), Volcanological Projects interesting
the Italian Civil Defence Department (DPC): sub-projects Campi
Flegrei (V3_2) and Etna (V3_6) (05/2005-06/2007), UNREST
(1/5/2008-31/5/2010) project INGV-DPC.
Reviewer of scientific journals:
Annals of Geophysics, Computers and Geosciences, Geophysical
Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of
Geophysical Research, Journal of Seismology, Journal of Volcanology
and Geothermal Research, Nonlinear processes in Geophysics,
Tectonophysics.
She attended many international meeting and schools. An invited
key lecture is:
22/10/2008“Time dependent stress changes and earthquake
triggering” at the research conference: “New challenges in
earthquake dynamics: observing and modelling a multi-scale system”
of the European Science Foundation (Obergurgl. Austria,
18-23/10/2008).
She collaborated to the organization of the exposition "Research
paths, Physics goes through Bologna" for the World Year of Physics
(2005).
She was convener for the disciplinary session “Solid Earth
Geophysics” at GEOITALIA 2009 meeting.
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS.
USGS(United States Geological Service, USA),
with Dr. John Boatwright: aseismic sliding and rate- and
state-dependent friction laws (Rome 1993);
with Dr. Ross Stein: eruption-earthquakes interactions (Rome
1997-1998);
with Dr. Joan Gomberg: seismicity rate changes and earthquake
probability changes caused by previous earthquakes (2003-2005).
LGIT (Laboratoire de Geophysique Interne et Tectonophysique),
University of Grenoble (France),
with Prof. Fabrice Cotton and Dr. Olivier Coutant: dynamic
stresses induced by earthquakes (Grenoble-Rome-Bologna,
1996-1998).
BergenUniversity (Norway), Prof. Agust Gudmundsson: ): secondary
earthquake fractures in stratified media (within the EEC projects
PRENLAB 1 and EEC PRENLAB 2).
IMO(Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik),
with Dr. Ragnar Stefansson and Dr. Kristin Vogfjord: seismicity
in Iceland and dynamic triggering (Reykjavik-Bologna, within the
EEC projects PRENLAB, PRENLAB 2 and PREPARED).
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