Italy
Italian participation within the EPOS Prepatarory Phase is leaded and organized by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV - National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology)
INGV is a governmental research Institute created in 1999 by merging different large pre-existing research institutions: the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (ING), the Osservatorio Vesuviano (OV), the Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia (IIV), the Istituto di Ricerca per il Rischio Sismico (IRRS) and the Istituto per la Geochimica dei Fluidi (IGF). INGV is the reference institution for the National Civil Protection Department for the monitoring of seismic areas and active volcanoes in Italy and leads the official programs for seismic and volcanic hazard assessment promoted by the Italian government. INGV is the most relevant Italian Public Research Institution in Earth Sciences, with a particular emphasis on geohazards, and it is the reference institution for the Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University on these fields. INGV is a leading institution for fundamental research on the physics of the Earth interior, the earthquake generation process and volcano dynamics (INGV was ranked number one institution in volcanology and number three in seismology, based on scientific publications during year 2005, in a worldwide enquiry by ISI Thomson). More recently, new programs were developed and focused to study climate changes and environmental science. INGV has a long-standing experience in project coordination at national and European level. INGV has been partner or coordinator of several EC and international projects such as EXPLORIS, NERIES, SAFER, SESAME, SPICE, MEREDIAN, TRANSFER, GEOSTAR, NEAREST, QUEST, SHARE, etc….
Controbution to the EPOS Preparatory Phase
The EPOS Preparatory Phase is leaded by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). INGV leads Work Package 1 and Work Package 7 and it is involved in all the other ones. It coordinates the Italian roadmap and it provides to EPOS the data and expertise derived from all the research and monitoring network facilities (e.g., seismic and geodetic networks, experimental laboratories, in-situ seismological and volcanological observatories) in addition to its data archives and IT expertise.
INGV is the project leading institution. It established the Project Mangement Office for the management of the Preparatory Phase and relies on the contribution of several INGV researchers and employees:
Massimo Cocco (Project Coordinator) is a senior researcher at the INGV Seismology and Tectonophysics Department, Rome. He was the Director of the Departments in the period 2001-2007. He is the coordinator of the EPOS PP and WP7 Leader.
Alessandro Bartoloni works at INGV as the Project Coordinator personal assistant.
Sofia Mariano is a European project manager at INGV; she manages relations with the European Commissiona and coordinates the administration and accounting activities.
Silvia Filosa received her Bachelor's degree in Modern Languages and Literature (1997) and a Master degree in Archival Science (2011). Since 2000, she has been working at the INGV in Sismos project as Technical Assistant; her work includes research on historical seismology and the management of national and international collaborations. Since 2010, she is a member of the EPOS PP management office and she participates to the EPOS outreach and dissemination activities (WP8) being responsible for the EPOS Newsletter.
Michela Pisegna is a project management assistant, expert on administrative and economic reporting procedures for European and Italian projects at INGV. She is involved in the technical and
administrative activities in the EPOS Secretariat.
Luca Postpischl graduated in Physics at the university of Bologna and started his professional career in computer science at Cineca super-computing center. He works as a Web Developer at the INGV Bologna branch since 2006; within EPOS, he provides strategic IT planning and maintenance of the Preparatory Phase public web-site and Collaborative Area. He is a WG7 member.
Daniele Bailo works on the ICT components of both the EPOS Website and Collaborative Area. After the PhD in Material Science, he is now back to his native passion: programming, web developing, database design with cutting edge web 2.0 technologies. He is a WG7 member.
Silvia Nardi is a Conference & Event Planner and an Executive Assistant for the Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Services of the INGV Administration Department. She provides support to the EPOS PP Project Management Office Secretariat for its scientific and technical activities. She is specifically responsible for organizing meetings and events, taking care of all logistical and organisational conference related services.
Alberto Michelini is a senior researcher at the INGV Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Rome. He is the President of the ORFEUS ExeCom. He was the Director of the Friuli seismic network at the OGS. He participate to WP6 activities as WG7 co-Chair leading the EPOS INGV research team. He is also a member of the EPOS Newsletter Scientific Committee.
Giovanni Macedonio is a senior researcher at the INGV Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples. He was the Director of the Osservatorio Vesuviano in the period 2001-2007. He is the person with voting rights at the EPOS PP Inter-Activity Preparatory Council and coordinates other Italian institutions forming the Italian National Consortium. He is also a member of the EPOS Newsletter Scientific Committee.
Antonio Meloni is a senior researcher at the INGV Geomagnetism Aeronomy and Environmental Geophysics Department, Rome. He was the Director of the Department in 2007-2011 and from September 2011 he is WG5 Chair.
Leonardo Sagnotti is a senior researcher at the INGV Geomagnetism, Aeronomy and Environmental Geophysics Department, Rome. He manages the Laboratory of Paleomagnetism of INGV, which he founded in 1990. He is involved in EPOS as WG6 "Analytical and experimental laboratories" co-Chair for the Rock Physics activities.
Piergiorgio Scarlato is senior researcher at INGV. He coordinates the activity of the HP-HT Laboratory for Experimental Volcanology and Geophysics. He is involved in EPOS as chair of WG6 Analytical and Experimental Laboratories.
Salvatore Stramondo is a senior researcher at the INGV National Earthquake Center. He is involved in EPOS as WG8 "Satellite Information data" chair.
Fawzi Doumaz is a Senior researcher at INGV, Centro Nazionale Terremoti He is collaborating in EPOS as delegate of WG2 into WG7.
Agata Sangianantoni is a technologist and a lawyer at INGV branch in Naples. She is the Head of the Legal Office and INGV member in WP2.
Barbara Angioni graduated at "Istituto Europeo di Design" in 1992. She works at the INGV as a graphic designer since 1996 and she is part of the "Laboratorio Grafica & Immagini" of INGV since 2001, when the Lab was established. She participates to EPOS since 2009, taking care of the editorial and graphic support for the Outreach and Dissemination activities.
Viviana Vacchi is an Administrative Officer at INGV Administration Department, expert in financial aspects of Italian and international projects. For EPOS PP she specifically takes care of financing distribution to the partners, periodical financial reports and audit certificate procedures.
Carmela Freda is senior researcher at INGV. She is in charge of the Experimental Petrology researches performed at the HP-HT Laboratory for Experimental Volcanology and Geophysics. She is involved in EPOS as co-chair for the analytical and experimental petrology and volcanology activities of the Working Group Analytical and Experimental Laboratories.
Salvatore Mazza is senior researcher in force at INGV Earthquake National Center as Manager of the Seismological Data Center. He is involved in EPOS as WG1 co-chair and member of the ORFEUS Board of Directors.
Giuseppe Puglisi is a senior researcher at the INGV “Osservatorio Etneo”, Catania (INGV-CT). He head up the INGV–CT branch that manages the geodetic monitoring systems on the volcanoes and seismic areas of Sicily and is also coordinator of the INGV geodetic monitoring surveillance activities on the Italian Volcanoes. He is involved in EPOS as chair of the Working Group 2 “Volcano Observations”.
Nicola D'Agostino is a senior researcher at INGV Centro Nazionale Terremoti. He is co-chair of the WG4 "GNSS data and other Geodetic data".
EPOS National Consortium
INGV also leads other italian research organizations and universities managing RIs and monitoring facilities with the objective of building an EPOS National Consortium. Currently the italian organizations involved are the following six: AMRA Naples; OGS Trieste; University of Trieste; University of Genova; University of Roma 3; CNR-IGG Pisa.
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