Function and Responsibilities:

• Research scientist
• Downhole Logging acquisition and interpretation

Research Interests:

• Downhole logging measurements, analysis and interpretation
• Physical properties of rocks and sediments
• Core-log seismic integration (CLSI)
  
• Present-day stress field of the Earth’s Crust
• Well Testing (leak-off test, hydraulic fracturing) interpretation
• Cyclostratigraphy and Paleoclimate

My profile in: Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Orcid

Career:

2011-Present: Researcher at GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Section 4.2 Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling
2010-2011: Visiting Research at at GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Section 2.6 Seismic Hazard and Stress Field
2000-2011: Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) - Rome, Italy

Education:

• 2004  PhD in Geophsics, University of Bologna, Italy
• 1999  Degree in Geology, University of Rome "La Sapienza". Italy
  

Projects:

Ongoing Projects:

• Co-PI of the ICDP DIVE Drilling Project (Italy)
• Sweden boreholes Drilling Projects (Sweden)
• GeoLaB (Germany)
• ICDP BASE (South Africa)

 

Completed Projects:

• PI of DFG project-SPP1006 "Core-Log Seismic Integration in hard rock environments using the ICDP drilling project COSC-1, Sweden"
• PI of DFG project-SPP1006 "Relating physical properties from geophysical downhole logging data with clay mineralogy from drill core samples of the ICDP Lake Junín drilling project"
• Co-PI of “Fluid Migration and Distribution in metamorphic bedrock (FluMi) in COSC-2 borehole (Sweden)”. Funded by GFZ inside of PoF-Expedition 2022
• PI of “4D Analysis of the stress field around the 2500 m deep Outokumpu borehole in the Eastern Finland (Fennoscandian Shield)”. Funded by GFZ inside of Innovative Research Expedition 2019.
• ICDP STAR Drilling Project (Italy)
• ICDP COSC-2 Drilling project (Sweden)
• ICDP DeepChalla Drilling Project (Kenya)
• PTA2 Drilling Project (Hawai´i)
• TRIDEC: Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises
• Antarctic Geological Drilling (AnDrill, Southern McMurdo Sound)
• Santa Maria delle Mole Drilling Project (Colli Albani, Italy)
• ByMuR: Bayesian Multi-Risk assessment a case study for natural risks in the city of Naples
• Crustal Imaging in Italy (MIUR-FIRB)

Research Boards and Committees:

Co-Editor of PAGES special volume 2024

Editorial Board of Annals of Geophysics

Awards:

2007      National Science Foundation Antarctic Service Medal "in recognition of valuable contributions to exploration and Scientific achievement under the U.S. Antarctic Research Program"

2001      Ph.D. Fellowship awarded by University of Bologna, Italy