Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

PostDoctoral researcher

Research Interests:

• Probabilistic hazard modelling / Long-term hazard assessment frameworks
• Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty propagation
• Quantification of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty
• High-performance computing (HPC) for large-scale simulations
• Monte Carlo methods applied to hazard modelling
• Artificial intelligence applied to hazard modelling
• Tsunami modelling (from generation to inundation)
• Multi-hazard

Career:

• May 2025 - Present:   PostDoctoral fellow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
• Nov 2024 - Apr 2025:  Research fellow, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy
• May 2021 - Oct 2021:  Research fellow, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Education:

• Nov 2021 - Mar 2025:  PhD in Earth Science, Fluid-Dynamics and Mathematics. Interactions and Methods, University of Trieste, Italy 
• Oct 2016 - Mar 2019:  M.Sc. Geophysics, University of Trieste, Italy
• Oct 2012 - Mar 2016:  B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Roma Tre, Italy

Projects:

• Geo-INQUIRE Transnational Access project FLOOD-IMG (Principal Investigator): 
• Leading research on uncertainty quantification in tsunami hazard, focusing on the impact of source model variability on inundation
• Designing and managing large-scale HPC simulation campaigns (Leonardo, CINECA)
• Developing scalable frameworks for sensitivity analysis and uncertainty propagation in hazard modelling
• Multi-Marex Project:
  • Database of tsunamigenic scenarios for tsunami inundation and risk assessment at selected hotspots