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MAIN RESEARCH TOPICSOceanic and continental rift architectureStructure of volcanic arcs and back-arcs

Fault propagation and interactionCaldera formation

Resurgence Dike emplacement Volcano collapse

MAIN METHODSField analysis

ModellingRemote sensing

InSAR

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STUDY AREAS

Central Andes

Italy Japan

Kamchatka

North NewZealand

Iceland

Ethiopian Rift +Afar

Easter Island

a) Divergent Plate Boundaries

b) Convergent Plate Boundaries

c) Hot spots

Azores Iran

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PAPERS:

V.A. is author of 103 papers, 96 of which on international journals. V.A. is the first or only author in 58 papers.

Current h-index = 28 (ISI)V.A. has >200 presentations and abstracts, largely at international meetings, 10 of which solicited

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SCIENTIFIC DUTIES:

- Responsible of the IAVCEI COMMISSION ON COLLAPSE CALDERAS (2010-2014).- NATIONAL COORDINATOR of the DPC-INGV Etna Flank (2008-2010) and Campi Flegrei Eruptive

Precursors (2014-2015) projects, involving 12 and 10 research units, respctively.- EDITOR in CHIEF of Frontiers in Volcanology- ASSOCIATE EDITOR of Journal and Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Geosphere and Frontiers

in Structural Geology and Tectonics.- GUEST EDITOR on Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2 special volumes) and

Tectonophysics, (1 special volume) .

- CONVENER at 22 International Scientific Meetings (including EGU, AGU, IAVCEI) - REVIEWER (20 ms/year) for 23 international journals of Earth Sciences.- SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR for 3 Italian TV programs (“Ulisse” and “Macchina del Tempo”), on Andes,

volcanoes and Iceland.

MAIN COLLABORATIONS:

- Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, Pisa, Italy.- Dipartimento Scienze Ambientali, Como, Italy.- INGV, Catania, Italy.- CNR Irea, Napoli, Italy.- Hawaii Volcano Observatory, USA.- Department of Geology, University of Salta, Argentina.- Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.- GFZ Potsdam, Germany.- Royal Holloway, London, U.K..- Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.- Cerege, Universitè Paul Cezanne, Aix an Provence, France. - University of Leeds, UK.

MAIN RESEARCH PROJECTS:- Project DPC-INGV V2 (2012-2015) “Eruptive precursors”.- Project PRIN (2011-2013) “Tectonomagmatic relations at divergent plate boundaries”.- Project ASI-JAXA (2011-2013) “InSAR techniques in volcanic areas”.- ITN FP7-People-2010-ITN 2011-2015 “Topomod”.- Cat-1 ESA (2010-2012) “Caldera dynamics and related tectonic setting”.- PICT 2009-2012: “Magmatism in NW Argentina”.- DPC-INGV V4 2008-2010 “Flank instability at Etna”. - Project INGV-DPC 2005-2007 “Structural setting of Campi Flegrei”.- Project INGV-DPC V2 2005-2007 “Monitoring and research at Stromboli and Panarea”.- Project INGV-DPC V3 Vesuvius 2005-2007 “The feeding system of lateral eruptions”.- Project Cofin/PRIN 2004-2005 “Central Andes”.- Project PRIN 2002-2004 “The transition from the Ethiopian Rift to Afar”. - Project IGCP n. 455, 2001-2006 “Volcanoes and their basement”.- Project GNV 2001-2004 "Structural features of volcanism at Campi Flegrei” - Project Murst 2000-2001 “Magmatism and volcanism in the Main Ethiopian Rift”.

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THE WORLD IS …OURSLucky enough, I had the chance to roam around, studying wonderful pieces of nature. Marco Neri, Agust Gudmundsson, Tesfaye Korme, Bekele Abebe, Jim Cole, Karl Spinks, Takeyoshi Yoshida, Ryoichi Yamada, Ricardo Omarini, Roberto Mazzuoli, Luigina Vezzoli, Alessandro Tibaldi, Andrei Kozhurin, Vera Ponomareva, are just some of the friends who enthusiastically shared with me weeks of field work, opening my mind.

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PERSONALFor the first time in the history of mankind, our generations can roam around the globe. From Roma to Pagan, from Puna to Kyoto, from the Kasbahs to Angkor-Wat, from Tongariro to Esfahan, from Alchi to Cerro Torre, from Hong Kong to Askja, from Van to Dunhuang, from Bali to Bay Area, from Registan to Petra, from Sydney to Taj Mahal, from Lhasa to Fakarawa, from Matamanoa to Atacama…Feeling the breath of Earth, so that the Earth becomes the throne. Now that it is time to feel the breath of my daughters, I wish Flavia and Elena to have the same chance as I had.