Paola MONTONE

Editor in Chief

INGV, Rome, Italy

Appointed editor: January 2024

Expertise: Present-day stress, Active tectonics and Earthquakes, Tectonics, Seismology, Drillings

ORCID: 0000-0002-9297-1730

Web site: paola-montone-website/home

Sara AMOROSO

University of Chieti-Pescara, Department of Engineering and Geology, /INGV

Joined board: March 2024

Expertise: Geotechnical earthquake engineering, Seismic microzonation, Geotechnical and geophysical investigation, Liquefaction, Ground response analysis 

ORCID: 0000-0001-5835-079X

Stefano CALIRO

INGV, OV, Italy

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Fluid geochemistry in volcanic areas, theoretical aspects of chemical and isotopic equilibria in volcanic-hydrothermal environments, fluid origin, CO2 earth degassing

ORCID: 0000-0002-8522-6695

Licia FAENZA

INGV, Bologna, Italy 

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: ShakeMap, Statistical Seismology, Machine Learning, Real-Time seismology, Outreach and Communication 

ORCID: 0000-0002-6135-1141

Fabio FLORINDO

INGV, Rome, Italy

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Paleomagnetism and Environmental Magnetism with applications to paleoclimate, paleoceanography, geomagnetic field behavior and tectonics

ORCID: 0000-0002-6058-9748

Diana LATORRE

INGV, Rome, Italy

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Earthquake location, Instrumental seismicity catalogs, Local Earthquake Tomography, Converted waves modelling

ORCID: 0000-0002-4594-0317

Maria Teresa MARIUCCI

INGV, Rome, Italy

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Contemporary stress field, Seismotectonics, Active tectonics, Well logs

ORCID: 0000-0001-6029-1514

Irene MOLINARI

INGV, Bologna, Italy

Joined board: December 2019

Expertise: seismology, structure of the Earth,  tomography, wave propagation, Inverse theory, Ambient noise, Seismic network and instruments, Earthquake catalogs

ORCID: 0000-0002-8314-1444

Andrea MORELLI

INGV associate research

Joined board: December 2025

Expertise: Seismic tomography, Earth structure,Inverse methods, Broad band and long period seismology, Seismic instrumentation and noise

ORCID: 0000-0002-7400-8676

Daniele MORGAVI

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Volcanology, volcano stratigraphy; dynamics of eruptive processes and mechanisms of emplacement; magma differentiation and magma rheology; experimental volcanology

ORCID: 0000-0002-2858-1586

Michael PEZZOPANE

INGV, Rome, Italy

Joined board: December 2018

Expertise: Ionospheric morphology, dynamics and modelling; Ionospheric storms; Space weather; Radio wave propagation in the ionosphere; International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model

ORCID: 0000-0001-5800-2322

Alessio PIATANESI

INGV, Rome, Italy

Joined board: December 2018

Expertise: Tsunami, Seismic source, Earthquake physics, Inverse problem 

ORCID: 0000-0003-2863-3662

Ester PIEGARI

Università degli Studi di Napoli
Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Joined board: February 2025

Expertise: Machine learning, natural hazard modelling, numerical methods, cellular automata, geoelectrical methods

ORCID: 0000-0002-1538-1606

Simona PIERDOMINICI

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Joined board: June 2025

Expertise: Contemporary stress field, Drilling, Well logs, In situ physical properties of rocks, Core-log seismic integration, borehole data with applications to cyclostratigraphy for paleoclimate 

ORCID: 0000-0002-5368-4536

Alessio PIGNALBERI

INGV, Rome, Italy

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Space Weather, Ionosphere physics and modelling, Radio wave propagation in the ionosphere, Upper atmosphere 

ORCID: 0000-0001-9459-4919

Piero POLI

Università di Padova, Italy 

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Seismology, Earthquakes physics, Waves propagation, Imaging & monitoring with ambient noise, long period seismology

ORCID: 0000-0002-6493-5142

Michela RAVANELLI

Joined board: March 2026

Expertise: GNSS, natural hazards, GNSS ground deformation, GNSS ionospheric monitoring, early warning systems, machine learning applications in geodesy/geophysics. 

ORCID: 0000-0001-9788-7434

Jacopo SELVA

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Ital

Joined board: October 2025

Expertise: Multi-hazard risk, Probabilistic Volcanic, Tsunami and Seismic Hazard Assessments (PVHA, PTHA and PSHA), Uncertainty in hazard and risk, Expert elicitation, Eruption forecasting, Tsunami warning 

ORCID: 0000-0001-6263-6934

Enrico SERPELLONI

INGV, Bologna, Italy

Joined board: November 2017

Expertise: Geodesy, Crustal Deformation, Active Tectonics, Geodynamics, Plate Kinematics , Earthquake Cycle

ORCID: 0000-0003-1822-403X

Ilaria SPASSIANI

INGV, Rome, Italy

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Statistical seismology, mathematical modeling of seismic sequences, operational earthquake forecasting, earthquake catalog analysis, completeness magnitude, b-value parameter

ORCID: 0000-0003-2252-0202

Gabriele TARABUSI

INGV, Bologna, Italy

Joined board: January 2024

Expertise: Geoscience Data, Historical Earthquake Data

ORCID: 0000-0002-2497-6273

Evdokia TEMA

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Joined board: October 2025

Expertise: Earth’s magnetic field, Paleomagnetism, Rock Magnetism, Paleosecular variation, Magnetostratigraphy, Chronology

ORCID: 0000-0002-4362-2630