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Veronica Pazzi ha conseguito la laurea in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente ed il Territorio e il dottorato di ricerca in Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale presso l'Università di Firenze (Italia) rispettivamente nel 2007 e nel 2011. Dal 2011 al 2021 è stata ricercatrice post-dottorato presso il Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Università di Firenze. Dal 2021 al 2024 è stata ricercatrice presso l'Università di Trieste (Italia). Dal 2024 è professore Associato di Geofisica Applicata presso l'Università di Firenze. I suoi interessi di ricerca includono principalmente indagini geofisiche, in particolare resistività elettrica e metodi sismici passivi, applicati alla geologia applicata, al monitoraggio e caratterizzazione delle frane, al patrimonio archeologico/culturale, oltre all’agro/idrogeofisica e alla sismologia applicata. È membro delle società SEG, EAGE, EGU, IAEG Italian Section, AIGEO e AIGAA. Dal 2022 è responsabile scientifico della sottodivisione EGU NH3-Frane e valanghe e membro del sottocomitato globale della sezione tecnica di geofisica superficiale del SEG.
Curriculum Vitae - Veronica Pazzi
Interessi di ricerca
I principali argomenti di ricerca sono nel campo della geofisica applicata e della sismologia applicata. Includono l'applicazione di tecniche geofisiche di superficie non invasive (principalmente tomografie elettriche resistive, polarizzazione indotta, GPR e rumore sismico) per lo studio, la caratterizzazione e il monitoraggio di fenomeni di instabilità sia su scala locale che regionale, nonché altri problemi ambientali (conservazione argini, caratterizzazione discariche). Parte della ricerca è inoltre focalizzata sull'agro-geofisica, sull'applicazione di tecniche geofisiche all'archeologia e al patrimonio culturale, sulla caratterizzazione e quantificazione degli effetti di sito indotti dai terremoti, sullo sviluppo di metodi rapidi per la caratterizzazione della vulnerabilità sismica di edifici e di siti culturali di interesse e sul miglioramento della percezione e della consapevolezza dei pericoli geologici e della resilienza.
Istruzione
2011: PhD in Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Firenze. Tesi: “Optimization of the electrokinetic remediation (EKR) of soils polluted by heavy metals.”
2007: Laurea in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente ed il territorio, Università degli Studi di Firenze. Tesi: “2D electrical resistivity topographies to reconstruct the paleo coast at Alberese (GR) and to locate any ancient coastal anthropic structures”.
Attività di ricerca
Attuale: Professore associato in Geofisica Applicata presso l’Università degli Studi di Firenze.
2021-2024: Ricercatore (RTDa) in sismologia applicate presso l’Università degli Studi di Trieste (coinvolgimento in 2 progetti nazionali).
2011-2021: post-doc fellowship presso l’Univeristà delgi Studi di Firenze: coinvolgimento in 32 progetti nazionali, 1 progetto H2020, e 3 progetti internazionali.
Career, Premi e attività internazionali
2025: membro della commissione per il premio AGLC "Licio Cernobori" (Associatione per la geofisica Licio Cernobori) per il topic "Seismic characterization of the territory"
2024: Membro della commissione per il “Premio di Laurea in Geofisica 'Vittorio Iliceto' (ed.2024)”
2024: Membro della commissione per il “Premio Merla 2024 Tesi Magistrali”
2024: Invited Speaker al 8th International Geologica Belgica meeting
2024-present: Chair Associate dell’UNESCO Chair "Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological hazards" dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze
2024: Membro della commissione per il “Premio di laurea in geofisica V. Illiceto”
2024: Co-convener EGU SM8.1 “Assessment of Earthquake Related Hazards, Site Effects, and Microzonation”
2024: membro della commissione per il premio AGLC "Licio Cernobori" (Associatione per la geofisica Licio Cernobori) per il topic "Seismic characterization of the territory"
2023-present: Membro del Consiglio direttivo della sezione italaina dell’IAEG
2023: Membro del comitato scientifico del congresso nazionale BEGEO 2023
2023: membro della commissione per il premio AGLC "Licio Cernobori" (Associatione per la geofisica Licio Cernobori) per il topic "Seismic characterization of the territory"
2022(-2026): Scientific Officer per l’EGU NH3 – Landslide Hazard subdivision
2022-present: Membro del SEG Near-Surface Geophysics Global Subcommittee
2022: EGU2022 OSPP (Outstanding Student Poster and PICO) Judge
2022: Co-convener EGU NH3.8 “Landslide monitoring: recent technologies and new perspectives”
2022: membro della commissione per il premio AGLC "Licio Cernobori" (Associatione per la geofisica Licio Cernobori) per il topic "Seismic characterization of the territory"
2022: membro della sezione italiana dell’EAGE-SEG
2021: Co-convener EGU ITS3.2/BG7 “Climate extremes, biosphere and society: impacts, cascades, feedbacks, and resilience”
2020: conseguita ASN per professore di II fascia settore concorsuale SC 04/A4 – Geofisica
2019: Invited speaker al Convegno tra geologia e geofisica 2019 (XVI Workshop in geofisica – VII Giornata di Formazione)
2019: Co-convener EGU NH9.7 “Monitoring and modelling of dangerous phenomena: innovative techniques for hazard evaluation and risk mitigation”
2019: EGU2019 OSPP (Outstanding Student Poster and PICO) Judge
2019-Present: membro della sezione italiana della IAEG
2018: Co-convener EGU NH9.9/AS5.20/GI1.9/HS11.41/SSS13.64 “Monitoring and modelling of dangerous phenomena: innovative, low-cost techniques and constraint of engineering-geological models for hazard evaluation and risk mitigation (co-organized)”
2018: EGU2018 OSPP (Outstanding Student Poster and PICO) Judge
2018-Present: membro dell’AIGAA
2018: conseguita ASN per professore di II fascia settore concorsuale SC 04/A3 – Geologia Applicata, Geografia Fisica e Geomorfologia
2017: Chairman poster section EGU GI1.1/EMRP4.16/SSS12.25 “Applications of Data, Methods and Models in Geosciences (co-organized)
2017: EGU2017 OSPP (Outstanding Student Poster and PICO) Judge
2017-Present: membro dell’EGU
2016-2022: Research Assistant per l’UNESCO Chair "Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological hazards" dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze
2015: Co-convener ICRAE “Civil engineering and Spatial Planning”
2011: premiata per la miglior tesi di dottorato con “RemTech 2011 National Award”
2007-Present: membro dell’EAGE e del SEG (dal 2018 SEG Active member)
Attività come Editore e Revisore
Editorial board member per le riviste: NHESS, Landslides, e International Journal of Geophysics
2024-present: Special Section Editor (submission deadline 01/07/2025): “Humanosphere and near-surface geophysics” in Interpretation (https://library.seg.org/page/inteio/interpretation-humanosphere-near-surface)
2023-2024: Guest Editor of the Special Issue: “Landslide Studies integrating Remote Sensing and Geophysical Data, second Edition” in Remote Sensing (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Landslide
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2022-present: Guest Editor of the Special Issue (submission deadline: 12/07/2025): “Advances in Studies of DGSDs and Lateral Spreads” in Geosciences (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciences/special_issues/813Y5W1Z35)
2022-2023: Guest Editor of the Special Issue: “Landslide Studies integrating Remote Sensing and Geophysical Data” in Remote Sensing (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Landslide_Remote_Sensing)
2022-2024: Guest Editor del Research Topic: “Women in Science: Geohazards and Georisks 2022” (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/46054/women-in-science-geohazards-and-georisks-2022)
2021-2023: Guest Editor of the Topic: “Natural Hazards and Disaster Risks Reduction” (https://www.mdpi.com/topics/Natural_Hazards_Disaster_Risks_Reduction)
2021-2022: Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Geo-hazards and risk reduction approaches” in Sustainability (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Geo-Hazards_Risk_Reduction)
2019-2020: Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Landslides and geophysical investigations: advantages and limitation” in International Journal of Geophysics (https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijge/si/483412/)
Reviewer for many international journals
Insegnamenti
Attuale: “Geofisica computazionale” e “Geofisica Applicata” per la laurea magistrale e “How geophysical techniques can help to deal with different environmental problems” per il dottorato in “Earth and Planetary Science”
2021 - 2024: “Applied seismology”, “Microzonation”, e “Fisica terrestre”
2017: Visiting professor in Bolivia e Albania per le tematiche “Seismic survey”, “Geomorphology” and “Geo-hydrological risk”
2012-2021: seminari sulle seguenti tematiche “GPR”, “Rischio Sismico”, “Rumore sismico”, “Norme tecniche per le costruzioni”, “Resistività elettrica”, “GEofisica: Resistività elettrica e sismica passiva”, “Indagini geofisiche”, “Metodi geofisici per l’ingegneria”, “Geofisica per le applicazioni geotecniche”, “Idrogeologia applicata”, “Geofisica applicata”, “Geofisica applicata: teoria e applicazioni”
Tutor di tesi triennali e magistrali
2021-2024 presso l’Università degli Studi di Trieste: Tutor di 3 tesi magistrali e di 2 PhD e co-tutor di 2 tesi magistrali e 1 tesi triennale.
2008-attuale presso l’Università degli Studi di Firenze: Co-Tutor di 5 tesi triennali, 6 tesi magistrali, 1 tesi di dottorato; consulete per 2 tesi triennali, 6 tesi magistrali e 5 tesi di dottorato.
Attività di terza missione
2024: attività su "Environmental sustainability - Climate change: impact on the environment and mitigation strategies" con gli studenti dell'ultimo anno delle scuole superiori nell'ambito del "Active orientation in the school-university transaction - PNRR program Oriented to change the world, for a sustainable future”;
2022-2024: attività laboratoriale su "Earthquakes, seismic monitoring networks and shaking maps" con gli studenti di cinque classi della scuola media e tre classi della scuola superiore;
2022: nell’ambito di “Trieste NEXT 2022 - THE BOUNDARIES OF SCIENCE. Innovation and research: ethical limits and new frontiers", "Researchers' Night", and "Barcolana 2022", organizzazione e partecipazione attiva alla realizzazione dell'edizione triestina della mostra itinerante "Terremoti in Italia" organizzata dal Dipartimento della Protezione Civile Nazionale;
2021: attività "Seismic safety - earthquakes, seismic monitoring networks and shaking maps" nello stand dell'Università di Trieste nell'ambito della manifestazione "Trieste NEXT 2021 - TAKE CARE. The science for sustainable well-being”;
2013-2019: attività sui rischi geologici con le scuole di ogni ordine e grado nell'ambito delle cinque edizioni del progetto tra DST-UNIFI e INAIL Direzione Regione Toscana "Spreading knowledge and awareness of hydrogeological risks - Exploiting knowledge, innovation and education to develop the culture of geological safety in schools"
References
Scopus Author ID: 55360171300 - WOS Researcher ID: C-9526-2016 - Orcid id: orcid.org/0000-0002-9191-0346
Autore di 59 papers (56 indicizzati in Scopus), 1 libro e 3 capitoli, 11 proceedings, e più di 60 abstracts; 7 Invited oral presentations
I suoi interessi di ricerca includono principalmente indagini geofisiche, in particolare resistività elettrica e metodi sismici passivi, applicati alla geologia applicata, al monitoraggio e caratterizzazione delle frane, al patrimonio archeologico/culturale, oltre all’agro/idrogeofisica e alla sismologia applicata.
Legenda
Veronica Pazzi received the M.Sc. degree in environmental engineering and the Ph.D. degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Firenze (Italy) in 2007 and 2011, respectively. From 2011 to 2021, she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Firenze. From 2021 to 2024, she was Researcher at the University of Trieste (Italy). Since 2024, she has been an Associate Professor in Applied Geophysics at the University of Firenze. Her research interests mainly include geophysical investigations, especially electrical resistivity and passive seismic methods, applied to engineering geology, landslides, agro/hydrogeophysics, applied seismology, and archaeological/cultural heritage. She is member of the SEG, EAGE, EGU, IAEG Italian Section, AIGEO, and AIGAA societies. Since 2022, she has been the Scientific Officer of the EGU NH3—Landslides and Avalanches subdivision and member of the SEG Near-Surface Geophysics Technical Section Global Subcommittee.
Research Interests
The main research topics are in the field of applied geophysics, engineering geology, and applied seismology. They include the application of non-invasive surface geophysical techniques (mainly electrical resistivity tomographies, induced polarization, GPR,and seismic noise) for the study, characterization, and monitoring of instability phenomena (landslides and sinkholes) both at local and regional scale, as well as other environmental problems. Part of the research is also focused on agro-geophysics, on the application of geophysical techniques to archaeology and cultural heritage, to the characterization and quantification of site effects induced by earthquakes, to the development of expeditious methods for the characterization of the seismic vulnerability of buildings and cultural sites of interest, and to the improvement of perception and awareness of geological hazards and resilience.
Education
2011: PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence. Thesis: “Optimization of the electrokinetic remediation (EKR) of soils polluted by heavy metals.”
2007: M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Florence. Thesis: “2D electrical resistivity topographies to reconstruct the paleo coast at Alberese (GR) and to locate any ancient coastal anthropic structures”.
Research activity
Present: Associate Professor in Applied Geophysics at the University of Firenze
2021-2024: researcher in applied seismology at the University of Trieste (Italy) (involvement in 2 national projects).
2011-2021: post-doc fellowship in landslide characterization and monitoring at the University of Firenze (Italy): involvement in 32 national projects, 1 H2020 project, and 3 other international projects.
Career, Award, and International Activities
2025: Member of the commission of the AGLC "Licio Cernobori" award (Association for the Geophysics Licio Cernobori) for the topic "Seismic characterization of the territory"
2024: Member of the commission of the “Premio di Laurea in Geofisica 'Vittorio Iliceto' (ed.2024)”
2024: Member of the commission of the “Premio Merla 2024 Tesi Magistrali”
2024: Invited Speaker at the 8th International Geologica Belgica meeting
2024-present: Chair Associate of the UNESCO Chair "Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological hazards" of the University of Florence
2024: Member of the commission of the award “Premio di laurea in geofisica V. Illiceto”
2024: Member of the commission of the AGLC "Licio Cernobori" award (Association for the Geophysics Licio Cernobori) for the topic "Seismic characterization of the territory"
2023-present: Member of the Directive Council of the Italian section of the IAEG
2023: Member of the scientific committee of the Italian Congress BEGEO 2023
2023: Member of the commission of the AGLC "Licio Cernobori" award (Association for the Geophysics Licio Cernobori) for the topic "Seismic characterization of the territory"
2022(-2026): Scientific Officer of the EGU NH3 – Landslide Hazard subdivision
2022-present: Member of the SEG Near-Surface Geophysics Global Subcommittee
2022: Member of the commission of the AGLC "Licio Cernobori" award (Association for the Geophysics Licio Cernobori) for the topic "Seismic characterization of the territory"
2022: member of the EAGE-SEG Italian Section
2020(-2030): National Scientific Qualification to become Associate Professor in Geophysics
2019: Invited speaker at Convegno tra geologia e geofisica 2019 (XVI Workshop in geofisica – VII Giornata di Formazione)
2019-Present: member of the IAEG Italian Section
2018-Present: AIGA member
2018(-2028): National Scientific Qualification to become Associate Professor in Engineering Geology
2017-Present: EGU member
2016-2022: Research Assistant at the UNESCO Chair "Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological hazards" of the University of Florence
2011: Best Ph.D. Thesis at the RemTech 2011 National Award
2007-Present: EAGE and SEG member (since 2018 SEG Active member)
Editor and reviewer activities
Editorial board member of the journals: NHESS, Landslides, and International Journal of Geophysics
Teaching
Present at University of Firenze: courses of “Applied Geophysics”, “Computational Geophysics” for the MSc and “How geophysical techniques can help to deal with different environmental problems” for the PhD in Earth and Planetary Science
2021 - 2024 at University of Trieste: courses of “Applied seismology”, “Microzonation”, and “Earth Physics”
2017: abroad teaching activities in Bolivia and Albania about “Seismic survey”, “Geomorphology” and “Geo-hydrological risk”
2012-2021 at University of Florence: lessons about “GPR”, “Seismic risk”, “Seismic noise”, “Technical regulation for the constructions”, “Electrical resistivity”, “Geophysics: electrical resistivity and passive seismic”, “Geophysical survey”, “Geophysical method for the engineering”, “Geophysics for geotechnical applications”, “Applied hydrogeology”, “Applied geophysics”, “Applied geophysics: theory and applications”
BSc and MSc thesis tutor
2021-2024 at University of Trieste: Tutor of 3 MSc thesis and of 2 PhD student and co-tutor of 2 MSc thesis and 1BSc thesis.
2008-Present at University of Florence: Co-Tutor of 5 BSc thesis, 6 MSc thesis, and 1 PhD thesis; counsellor for2 BSc thesis, 6 MSc thesis, and 5 PhD thesis
University third mission activities
2024: activity on "Environmental sustainability - Climate change: impact on the environment and mitigation strategies" with students of the last year of the high schools as part of the "Active orientation in the school-university transaction - PNRR program Oriented to change the world, for a sustainable future”;
2022-2024: laboratory activities on "Earthquakes, seismic monitoring networks and shaking maps" with the students of five classes of the middle school and three class of the high school;
2022: as part of the events “Trieste NEXT 2022 - THE BOUNDARIES OF SCIENCE. Innovation and research: ethical limits and new frontiers", "Researchers' Night", and "Barcolana 2022", organization and actively participation in the creation of the Trieste edition of the traveling exhibition "Earthquakes in Italy" organized by the Department of National Civil Protection;
2021: activity "Seismic safety - earthquakes, seismic monitoring networks and shaking maps" in the stand of the University of Trieste as part of the event "Trieste NEXT 2021 - TAKE CARE. The science for sustainable well-being”;
2013-2019: activities on geological risks with schools of all levels as part of the five editions of the project between DST-UNIFI and INAIL Tuscany Region Directorate "Spreading knowledge and awareness of hydrogeological risks - Exploiting knowledge, innovation and education to develop the culture of geological safety in schools"
Author of 59 papers (56 indexed on Scopus), 1 book and 3 chapters, 9 proceedings, and more than 60 abstracts; 7 Invited oral presentations.
Her research interests mainly include geophysical investigations, especially electrical resistivity and passive seismic methods, applied to engineering geology, landslides, agro/hydrogeophysics, applied seismology, and archaeological/cultural heritage.
