EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Laurea cum laude in Earth Sciences at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Milano, Italy, on November 15 1984. Thesis: ” Evoluzione Geologica Post-Messiniana e Geomorfologia del Bacino di Sora (Valle del Liri )” (Post-Messinian Geological Evolution and Geomorphology of Sora Basin (Liri Valley)”. Scientific advisors: M.B. Cita and M. Coltorti.
Master of Sciences in Geological Oceanography at the Department of Oceanography of Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas on December 17 1988. Thesis: “Subsurface Dissolution of Evaporites in Eastern Mediterranean Sea”. Scientific advisor: W.R. Bryant.
Research Doctorate in Earth Sciences at the Department of Earth Sciences University of Milano, Italy, on July 17 1991. Thesis: ” Il Diapirismo d’Argilla sulla Dorsale Mediterranea” (Mud Diapirism on the Mediterranean Ridge). Scientific advisor: M.B. Cita.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
May 1985 to May 1986. Assistant Curator at the Civic Museum of Natural Sciences E. Caffi, Bergamo, Italy;
September 1986 to September 1988. Research Assistant at the Ocean Drilling Program, 1000 Discovery Dr., Texas 77843;
July 1989 to September 1991. Assistant Secretary at the ESCO (ESF Scientific Consortium for ODP) Secretariat, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Milano;
December 1991 to December 1996. Junior Researcher (Ricercatore) at Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS).
December 30 1996 to August 30 2004. Senior Researcher (Primo Ricercatore) with permanent position at Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/C, I-34010 Sgonico (TS) Italy (OGS).
September 2004 to July 2012. Research Professor and Associate Professor ICREA, with permanent position at Istitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, c/o Departament d’Estratigrafia, Paleontologia i Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona / Facultat de Geologia;
Since 2012. Senior researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS);
2012-2020. Director of the Geophysics Research Section of the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS);
Since 2012. Professor, University of Trieste, Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, Course: Marine Geology.