Associate Professor of Applied Geophysics at the Department of Geosciences, University of Padova. He has participated in numerous national and international projects in terrestrial and marine areas (IODP). He has been a visiting scientist at Boston University, USA, and twice at the ETH-SLF Institute, Switzerland. He was awarded the “G. Pialli” National Thesis Prize for Geophysics in 2004, the “Licio Cernobori” National Geophysics Prize in 2014 and the “Leonardo Da Vinci” Prize in 2020. His research interests include applied geophysics for the characterisation of the near surface, natural hazard scenarios and environmental geophysics with a focus on glacial and periglacial environments. He is author/co-author of more than 100 articles in international indexed journals.