Staff

Dr. Riccardo Zaccarelli

Scientist
Dr. Riccardo Zaccarelli
Building A 70, Room 206 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam

Function and Responsibilities:

● Development and maintenance of software, web services, databases and datasets for seamless access and processing of seismological data

● Development of machine learning models and algorithms for seismic data and metadata quality assessment

● IT support (programming and data management) for PhD students and postdocs

Research Interests:

● Scientific Software Development: sustainability, testing, deployment, best coding practices

● Scientific data curation, harmonisation, quality assurance, and validation

● Machine learning

● Computer science

Career:

From 2016: Research assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at GFZ, Potsdam
2010-2016: Software developer on machine learning and web applications, Paris and Berlin
2008-2010: Postdoc on machine learning and acoustics at CNRS, Orsay
2003-2007: PhD (Biophysics) at the ITB, Humboldt University, Berlin
2002-2003: Software developer on computer vision and pattern recognition, Bologna

Education:

2007: PhD (Biophysics) at the ITB, Humboldt University, Berlin
2002: Bachelor and Master in Mathematics, University of Bologna

Projects:

GeoInquire (https://www.epos-eu.org/geo-inquire)

EPOS-IP (https://www.epos-eu.org/)

DT-Geo (https://dtgeo.eu/)

EWRICA (https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_5019155_2)

SIMULTAN (https://www.gfz.de/sektion/geophysikalische-abbildung-des-untergrunds/projekte/simultan)

Safator (https://www.gfz.de/sektion/seismologie/projekte/safator-smart-cables-and-fiber-optic-sensing-amphibious-demonstrator)

IT products:

Web Services

eGSIM: https://egsim.gfz-potsdam.de/home

EMEC 2025 (FDSN API): https://emec.gfz-potsdam.de/ 

Software

stream2segment: https://github.com/rizac/stream2segmen

sdaas: https://github.com/rizac/sdaas

TFCGAN: https://github.com/resfahani/TFCGAN (software interface)

me-compute: https://github.com/rizac/me-compute

GMGT: https://github.com/rizac/gmgt 

gfzreport (discontinued): https://github.com/rizac/gfzreport

Datasets

GMGT: https://github.com/rizac/gmgt 

Code Repositories

GitHub: https://github.com/rizac

GitLab (GFZ): https://git.gfz-potsdam.de/rizac


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