Deep Carbon Lab Manager (https://deepcarbonlab.org/) Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna.
Didactic tutor for Geological Sciences PLS, BiGeA Department. Didactic tutor for the course Stone Material Characterisation, M.Sc. in Cultural Heritage Conservation-Restoration Science.
He made his research in the fields of structural geology, tectonics and geodynamics. He uses a multidisciplinary approach, integrating low-temperature thermochronology, thermal maturity analyses on the sedimentary successions and thermal modelling of wells data with indicators deriving from stratigraphy, structural interpretation of seismic lines and structural analyses in order to reconstruct the tectonic evolution of selected portions of the Caucasian region. The study area comprises the Georgian side of the western Kura Basin, the Adjara-Trialeti fold-and-thrust belt and the southern-central Greater Caucasus.
Education
PhD degree obtained on June 17th 2022 at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, thesis titled: "Subsidence history, thermal maturity, and structural inversion of the Greater Caucasus-Kura-Adjara-Trialeti basin system of central-eastern Georgia". Supervisor: Prof. William Cavazza; Co-supervisors: Prof. Massimiliano Zattin, Prof. Sveva Corrado, Dr. Andrea Schito. Final mark: Excellent cum laude.
Bachelor of Science in Geological Sciences in 2015 and Master Degree in Earth Sciences in 2018, gained at Department of Earth Sciences "A. Desio" at the University of Milan.
Publications in scientific journals
Alania V., Beridze T., Enukidze O., Gusmeo T., Razmadze A., Tevzadze N., Vashakidze G., 2026. Deep Structure and Deformation Structural Style of the Georgian Part of Lesser Caucasus Orogen, in Structural Geology and Tectonics, S. Mukherjee (ed.), Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-4743-2_1
Rebay G., Gusmeo T., Spalla M.I., Zanoni D., 2026. Garnet-free mineral assemblage at eclogite-facies conditions in the Riffelberg-Garten Unit, Italian Western Alps. Minerals 16, 79 https://doi.org/10.3390/min16010079
Carloni G., Martelli L., Martini A., Gusmeo T., Vignaroli G., Viola G., 2025. A new 3D seismotectonic model of the Northern Apennines Pedeapenninic margin for seismic hazard assessment. Scientific Data 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05835-7
Cavazza W., Gusmeo T., Seghedi A., Munteanu I., Catò S., Zattin M., Gemignani L., Albino I., 2025. The North Dobrogea Orogen revisited: Late Miocene structural reactivation along the Trans-European Suture Zone. Journal of Geodynamics 164 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2025.102101
Gemignani L., Cattò S., Zattin M., Jiao X., Vincent S.J., Carter A., Vangelov D., Gusmeo T., Albino I., Cavazza W., 2025. Tectono-thermal evolution of the eastern Balkan: Constraints from low-temperature thermochronometry. International Geology Review https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2025.2484315
Gusmeo T., Rebay G., Spalla M.I., Zanoni D., 2025. Origin and tectono-metamorphic history of the Riffelberg-Garten meta-sedimentary ophiolitic unit, Western Alps. Journal of the Geological Society 182 https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2025-041
Gusmeo T., Carloni G., Vignaroli G., Martelli L., Hu H.-M., Shen C.-C., Viola G., 2024. Recent and active faulting along the exposed front of the Northern Apennines (Italy): New insights from field and geochronological constraints. Tectonophysics 891 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230517
Cavazza W., Gusmeo T., Zattin M., Alania V., Enukidze O., Corrado S., Schito A., 2024. Two-step exhumation of Caucasian intraplate rifts: A proxy of sequential plate-margin collisional orogenies. Geoscience Frontiers 15 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2023.101737
Gusmeo T., Schito A., Corrado S., Alania V., Enukidze O., Zattin M., Pace P., Cavazza W., 2022. Tectono-thermal evolution of central Transcaucasia: Thermal modelling, seismic interpretation, and low-temperature thermochronology of the eastern Adjara- Trialeti and western Kura sedimentary basins (Georgia). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105355
Gusmeo T., Cavazza W., Alania V., Enukidze O., Zattin M., Corrado S. (2021) Structural inversion of back-arc basins--the Neogene Adjara-Trialetifold-and-thrust belt (SW Georgia) as a far-field effect of the Arabia-Eurasia collision. Tectonophyisics 803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228702
Corrado S., Gusmeo T., Schito A., Alania V., Enukidze O., Conventi E., Cavazza W. (2021) Validating far-field deformation styles from the Adjara-Trialeti fold-and-thrust belt to the Greater Caucasus (Georgia) through multi-proxy thermal maturity datasets. Marine and Petroleum geology 130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105141
Alania V., Pace P., Corrado S., Gusmeo T., Beridze T., Sadradze N., Tevzadze, N., 2021. Preliminary structural interpretation of a seismic profile across the frontal sector of the eastern Achara-Trialeti fold-and-thrust belt. Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences 15, 4, pp. 74-79
