Professor Giorgio Cassiani

Giorgio Cassiani is Full Professor of  Applied Geophysics at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua. From 2006 to 2015 he was Associate Professor at the same Department.

He graduated in Mining Engineering at the  University of Trieste in 1991 and obtained a Doctorate in Applied  Geophysics at the same university (1996), as well as an M.Sc. (1995) and a Ph.D. (1997) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke  University, USA. He worked at OGS Trieste, at ASP Pistoia as Research and Development Manager and at ENI-Divisione Agip of San Donato Milanese as an environmental specialist. From 1999 to 2001 he was Lecturer in  Contaminant Hydrogeology at Lancaster University, UK, where he taught courses in Hydrogeology, Environmental Management and Contaminated Site  Remediation for undergraduate and graduate students in Environmental Science.

From 2001 to 2006 he was a researcher in Applied Geophysics at  the Department of Geological Sciences and Geotechnologies of the  University of Milan Bicocca. From 2015 to 2019 he was appointed by the  MIUR of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Oceanography  and Experimental Geophysics (OGS).

His main research interests include:

(1)Geophysical methods for environmental applications, with particular regard to hydrological and hydrogeological applications and the characterization of contaminated sites and landslide slopes from a  geological, ideological and contamination point of view.

(2)Geophysical methods for geotechnical site characterization. .

(3)Integration of invasive and non-invasive techniques for site characterization, with particular reference to geostatistical techniques.

(4) Integration of hydrological modeling  with geophysical and traditional geophysical data, both in saturated and  non-saturated, in order to calibrate the models with respect to the  hydraulic and hydrological parameters of the formations concerned.

(5) Constituent models for the geophysical response of porous media, with  particular reference to seismic, electrical and hydraulic properties.

(6) Mapping of the static and dynamic characteristics of soils with  mobile measuring platforms (EMI, GPR).

(7) Applications of geophysics to  oil exploration issues, with particular reference to time-lapse  seismics and its geomechanical and fluid-dynamic interpretations.
 He  has been coordinator or collaborator of several projects funded at  national (Italian) and UK level, and at international level including, from 2008 to date, 5 EU projects of the 7th Framework Programme.
He is author of more than 100 scientific articles in international  journals, and of more than 200 conference proceedings and presentations. His Hirsch index is 29 (Scopus). He is a member of the American  Geophysical Union (AGU), the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the  European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE). He is a  member of the AGU Hydrogeophysics Technical Committee. His editorial  activity includes the positions of Associate Editor of Near Surface  Geophysics magazine and SERRA (Stochastic Environmental Research and  Risk Assessment) magazine.