Full Professor within the Class 08/A4 - Geomatics at the University of Bologna Department DICAM. Coordinator of the PhD@DICAM Doctoral course, composed by four curricula (PhD in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering) of DICAM. Scientific Responsible of the Land Surveying and Geomatics Laboratory (LARIG). Part of the International GNSS Service and member of the University Consortium: UNAVCO.
Main scientific and research activities in the polar regions:
- Researches in Antarctica for the study of geodynamics and for the study of glaciers movements, within the National Program of Research in Antarctica (PNRA) since 1990.
- To date he attended 10 scientific expeditions in Antarctica and one in Arctic (Svalbard Islands) in 2002.
- Responsible of the GPS geodetic network for the study of the ice surface velocity field around the site of the deep ice coring at Dome Concordia (European Project for Ice Core in Antarctica, EPICA).
- Member of the European Project H2020 Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice, with the aim to retrieve a continuous ice core to bedrock in Antarctica, covering the climate history of the Mid Pleistocene Transition and beyond.
- Responsible of the GNSS permanent station installed at Station Concordia.
- Contribution for the installation and data analysis of a tide gauge station at Italian Mario Zucchelli Station (Antarctica).