Education
24/02/1992 M.S. in electrical engineering from Politecnico of Milan
01/09/95 - 31/08/96 CNR grant holder on crustal studies at Politecnico of Milan
01/09/96 - 31/05/98 Contract worker at the University of Milan
15/06/98 - 31/10/02 Technician at the Earth Sciences Department A. Desio
01/11/02 - 30/09/11 Researcher at the Earth Sciences Department A. Desio
01/10/11 - 31/10/17 Associate Professor in Applied Geophysics at the Earth Sciences Department A. Desio.
Since 01/10/2014 Confirmed Associate Professor in Applied Geophysics
01/11/17 - Associate Professor in Applied Geophysics at the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Pisa
Activities
Amplitude preserving processing of 2D and 3D land and marine seismic data for oil and gas exploration
Processing of seismic data for deep crustal studies, expanding spread experiment and ice sheet movements in the Antarctic region
Acquisition planning and processing of seismic data for large landslide characterization
High resolution shallow seismic investigation (P an SH waves) on large landslides
Statics and residual statics estimation for 2D and 3D seismic data
Extraction of petrophysical indicators from seismic data
Integrated velocity model building from geological, seismological and seismic observations in sismogenic areas
Seismic-petrophysical characterisation of geothermal reservoirs
Studying and analysing the emplacement modalities of magmatic bodies in the Northern Tyrrhenian - Southern Tuscany areas
Pre-stack depth migration of land and marine seismic data.
Multicomponent seismic studies for oil reservoir characterisation
Full waveform inversion (FWI) using global optimization algorithms
Developments of seismic data processing technologies
Wavenumber Iterative Modelling (WIM) method for refraction statics computation
NMO without stretch for shallow seismic exploration
High resolution velocity analysis for seismic data
Multicomponent velocity analysis through ipercomplex numbers (quaternions)
2D-3D reconstruction in the Fourier domain of seismic data irregularly sampled along the spatial dimensions by means of probabilistic inversion
Efficient numerical solution of the acoustic wave equation
Parallel implementation of genetic global optimization algorithms
Teaching activity
Exploration Seismology
Laboratory of numerical processing of seismic data for the Graduate Program in Exploration and Applied Geophysics
Geophysical Log and Physical Properties
Exploration Seismology and Laboratory
Applied Geophysics for the Undergraduate Program in Geological Sciences.
Introduction to Matlab for the data processing to PhD's students
Involved in the following EC Projects
4DTAIL
MUSCL
I-GET
Involved in the following National Projects
GNDT project
MIUR project
Responsible of the research Unit of the University of Milan of a PRIN project
Responsible of three research projects with the Consorzio Universitario per la Geofisica
Award
The paper: Seismic preprocessing and amplitude cross-calibration for a time-lapse amplitude study on seismic data from the Oseberg reservoir received the Eötvös Award 2006 as the best paper in Geophysical Prospecting for the 2005 year.
Other
Since 04/05/2015 Associate Editor of the Bollettino di Geofisica Terorica e Applicata
Reviewer for some of the main Geophysical Journals of his scientific sector
Scientific Committee Member of the Consorzio Universitario per la Geofisica, Spezia
Member of EAGE, SEG and EAGE-SEG Associations.
In 04/04/2017 he was awarded of the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) in the Sector 04/A4 Geophysics.
26 July 2018