Research interests

Long-period, very-long-period and ultra-long-period seismo-volcanic sources

• Inversion of the source function of very-long-period events
• Analysis of the complex spectral components of long-period events
• Inversion of the source function of ultra-long-period events
• Analysis of the volcanic seismicity at Stromboli volcano (Southern Italy), Campi Flegrei caldera (Southern Italy) and Marapi volcano (West Sumatra)
• Development of techniques for the polarization analysis of seismo-volcanic events
• Numerical modeling of seismo-volcanic sources

Volcano-tectonic events

• Location of VT events of Mt.Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei caldera and Ischia island and Stromboli volcano (Southern Italy)
• Advanced location techniques in 3D velocity models
• Numerical modeling of microearthquake sources

Real-time techniques for processing of seismo-volcanic data

• Detection and location of very-long-period events
• Inversion of the moment tensor source function of very-long-period events
• Analysis of volcanic and infrasonic tremor

Fluid-dynamics of gas-basalt systems

• Modeling of bubbly and slug flow in basaltic conduits
• Modeling the generation of very-long-period event during Strombolian explosions

Deformation of volcanoes

• Modeling of deformations preceeding vulcanian explosions

Numerical modeling of seismic and acoustic wave propagation

• Finite-difference techniques in time and Fourier domains
• Modeling of seismo-acoustic wave interaction
• Paraxial ray-tracing in heterogeneous models

Array techniques for seismic and acoustic waves

• Real-time processing techniques of seismic and infrasonic arrays

Seismic tomography

• Active and passive seismic tomography of volcanoes (Mt.Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei)

Parallel computing

• Real-time processing of seismo-volcanic data
• 3D elastodynamics and fluid-dynamics modeling

Web-interfaces of geophysical databases

• Dynamic web interface of volcanc seismicity at Stromboli
• Web interface of multiparametric (seismological-geodetic-geochemical) databases

Seismic and acoustic effects of bolides

Non-linear inversion techniques

Inversion of InSAR images