Early Career Researcher in quantitative historical seismicity

"Knowing the past to better understand the present"

Ciao a tutti! I am an Assistant Professor at the department of Civil Engineering and Environment at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and the Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay. My research work is focused on: studying the effects of past earthquakes based on quantitative archaeoseismology; dynamic identification, modeling and upadating Cultural Heritage buildings. My work is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach of both, historical earthquakes, and Cultural Heritage buildings. All of my work results from an inclusive collaboration with great colleagues, outstanding students, and the unfailing support of my mentors.

I worked in the ancient masonry research group at the university of Roma Tre led by Pr. Dr. Gianmarco De FELICE. I applied a motion magnification technique for the dynamic identification of Cultural Heritage buildings with my colleague Dr. Pietro MERIGGI. We also investigated an innovative image-processing strategies to extract geometric features from pictures and point cloud of ancient masonry with Mrs Raphaël PELENC (ENS Paris-Saclay). We also used Discrete Element models to test retrofitting actions with Mrs Félix ALBER (ENS Paris Saclay).

I did a previous postdoctoral position in Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay LMPS of Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. Through an intense collaboration with my colleague Dr. Cédric GIRY I developp several modelling approach to study medieval towers struck by historical earthquake as part of the ACROSS project led by Maria LANCIERI funded by the French National Research Agency | ANR.

I did my PhD thesis in geophysics at Laboratoire de Géologie of Ecole Normale Supérieure (LGENS) under the supervision of Dr. Hélène LYON-CAEN (ENS/Laboratoire de Géologie), Dr. Maria LANCIERI (IRSN/BERSSIN), Dr. Hélène DESSALES (ENS/AOROC) and Julien CLEMENT (IRSN/LMAPS). My research is focused on the study of past earthquakes and historical ground motion through computational analysis combining different approaches : building archaeology, earthquake engineering and seismology. I am particularly working in the Mugello area (Italy, Tuscany).

I started working on past earthquakes in the archaeoseismological group under the supervision of Pr. Klaus-Günther HINZEN. Amazing projects are coming in the next months! In 2016, I joined the RECAP ANR program led by Dr. Hélène Dessales as associate researcher looking at the impact of the 63 A.D. and 70 A.D. earthquakes which occured in Pompei trough stratigraphic analysis of archaeological ruins and repairs. I joined IRSN (Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire) in 2017 working at the border between seismology and earthquake engineering in the LMAPS (Laboratoire de Modélisation et d'Analyse de la Performance des Structures) and BERSSIN (Bureau d'évaluation des risques sismiques pour la sûreté des installations). My work was focused on the study of the relationship between groud motion selected from worldwide Ground Motion data center and the seismic response of specific buildings of the nuclear park.

You can find out more about my research projects by going to the tab Research project.