Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste Phone: +39-40-5582116; Fax: +39-40-5582111
email: romanel@units.it
Academic history:
1993 Laurea in Physics, University of Trieste (cum laude) 1998 PhD in Geophysics (IX Cycle)
Appointments:
2000 - Researcher (GEO/10) at the University of Trieste
1996 - 2000 Researcher at the GNDT- CNR (National Group for the Defense from Earthquakes)
Courses taught, for the Academic Year 2017/2018:
Seismology (GEO/10, 678SM, SM23 - LM Physics);
Seismic and Volcanic Risk (FIS/07, 815SM, SM23 - LM Physics);
Institutions of Physics for the Earth System (GEO/10, 138SM, SM20 - Physics)
Physical Acoustics (FIS/01, 418ME-1, ME18 - Speech Therapy)
Editor (Solid Earth Sciences) of Pure and Applied Geophysics
EGU Officer: secretary (Surface waves) of the Seismology Division (until 2015)
Member of the Commissions “Effects of Earthquakes on Megacities” e “Strong Ground Motion, Earthquake Hazard and Risk” of IASPEI
Member of the Working Group “Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion” (now IASPEI)
Leader of the ASC-SHR Joint Working Group on Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment for Asian-Pacific Regions
Research topics:
Seismic wave propagation, and modelling, in laterally heterogenous media
Seismic wave generation by extended sources
Tsunami propagation, and modelling, in laterally heterogenous oceanic media
Groundshaking scenarios and estimation of site effects
Definition of seismic input; estimation of parameters of engineering importance
Seismic and tsunami hazard
Study of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. Surface wave tomography
Spectral properties of Love and Rayleigh differential operators. Sturm-Liouville systems
Honors:
1993 - Premio di Laurea Irene Galante
2010 - Medal of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology for fundamental contribution to the first neo-deterministic map of seismic hazard in Vietnam
Publications on international journals:
MALUSÀ M.,FREZZOTTI M.L., FERRANDO S., BRANDMAYR E., ROMANELLI F., PANZA
G.F., 2018.. Active carbon sequestration in the Alpine mantle wedge and implications for long-term climate trends, Scientific Reports, (2018) 8:4740.
RASTGOO M., RAHIMI H., MOTAGHI K., SHABANIAN E., ROMANELLI F., PANZA G.F.,
2018. Deep structure of the Alborz Mountains by joint inversion of P receiver functions and dispersion curves, PEPI, 277, 70-80.
HASSAN H. M., PANZA G.F., ROMANELLI F., EL- GABRY M.N., 2017. Insight on Seismic
Hazard Studies for Egypt, Engineering Geology, 220, 99-109.
HASSAN H. M., ROMANELLI F., PANZA G.F., EL- GABRY M.N., MAGRIN A., 2017. Update
and sensitivity analysis of the neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessment for Egypt, Engineering Geology, 218, 77-89.
DENG Y., CHEN L. XU Tao, WU J., ROMANELLI F., PANZA G.F., 2017. Lateral variation in
seismic velocities and rheology beneath the Qinling-Dabie orogen, Science China Earth Sciences, 59: 1–13 .
FASAN M., MAGRIN A., AMADIO C., ROMANELLI F., VACCARI F., PANZA G.F., 2016. A
seismological and engineering perspective on the 2016 Central Italy earthquakes. Int. J. Earthquake and Impact Engineering, 1, Vol. 4, 395-420.
MAGRIN A., GUSEV A.A., ROMANELLI F., VACCARI F., PANZA G.F., 2016. Broadband
NDSHA computations and earthquake ground motion observations for the Italian territory , Int. J. Earthquake and Impact Engineering, 1, Vol. 1, 131-158.
MOTAGHI K., TATAR M., PRIESTLEY K., ROMANELLI F., DOGLIONI C., PANZA G.F., 2015.
The deep structure of the Iranian Plateau, Gondwana Research, 28, 407–418.
PANZA G.F., ROMANELLI F., 2015. Erratum to: Seismic waves in 3D: from mantle asymmetries to reliable seismic hazard assessment. Earthquake Science, 28(3):233– 234 DOI 10.1007/s11589-015-0126-
ZHANG X., TENG J., SUN R., ROMANELLI F., ZHANG Z., PANZA G.F., 2014. Structural
model of the lithosphere–asthenosphere system beneath the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and its adjacent areas, Tectonophysics 634, 208–226. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2014.08.017
PANZA G.F., ROMANELLI F., 2014. Seismic waves in 3D: from mantle asymmetries to reliable seismic hazard assessment. Earthquake Science, 27(5): 567–576. doi: 10.1007/s11589-014-0091-y
ZHANG X., TENG J., SUN R., ROMANELLI F., ZHANG Z., PANZA G.F., 2014. Structural
model of the lithosphere–asthenosphere system beneath the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and its adjacent areas, Tectonophysics 634, 208–226. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2014.08.017
PANZA G.F. AND ROMANELLI F., 2014. Seismic waves in 3D: from mantle asymmetries to reliable seismic hazard assessment. Earthquake Science, accepted for publication. DENG Y., ZHANG Z., ROMANELLI F., MA T., DOGLIONI C., WANG P., ZHANG X., TENG J.,
PANZA G.F., 2014. Transition from continental collision to tectonic escape? A geophysical perspective on lateral expansion of the northern Tibetan Plateau. EARTH, PLANETS AND SPACE, 66, 10.
ZHANG Z., TENG J., ROMANELLI F., BRAITENBERG C., DING Z., ZHANG S., ZHANG X., FANG L., WU J., DENG Y., MA T., SUN R. AND PANZA G., 2014. Geophysical
constraints on the link between cratonization and orogeny: Evidence from the Tibetan Plateau and the North China Craton. Earth-Sci Rev 130, 1–48. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.12.005
BRANDMAYR, E., ROMANELLI, F. AND PANZA, G.F., 2013. Stability of fault plane solutions for the major N-Italy seismic events in 2012, Tectonophysics 608 (2013) 525–529. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.08.034
GONZÁLEZ, O., MORENO, B., ROMANELLI, F., PANZA, G. F., 2012. Lithospheric structure
below seismic stations in Cuba from the joint inversion of Rayleigh surface waves dispersion and receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International, 189: 1047– 1059. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05410.x
PANZA G.F., LA MURA C., PERESAN A., ROMANELLI F., VACCARI F., 2012. Seismic
Hazard Scenarios as Preventive Tools for a Disaster Resilient Society. Advances In Geophysics (ISSN:0065-2687), pp.93- 165, Vol. 53/2012.
BRANDMAYR E., MARSON I., ROMANELLI F., PANZA G.F., 2011. Lithosphere density
model in Italy: no hint for slab pull. TERRA NOVA (ISSN:1365-3121), pp.292- 299, Vol. 23/2011
LA MURA C., YANOVSKAYA T.B., ROMANELLI F., PANZA G.F., 2011. Three-dimensional
seismic wave propagation by modal summation: method and validation. Pure And Applied Geophysics, pp.201- 216, Vol. 168.
PARVEZ I.A., ROMANELLI F., PANZA G.F., 2011. Long Period Ground Motion at Bedrock Level in Delhi City from Himalayan Earthquake Scenarios. Pure And Applied Geophysics, pp 409-452, Vol. 168.
INDIRLI M., RAZAFINDRAKOTO H., ROMANELLI F., PUGLISI C., LANZONI L., MILANI E.,
MUNARI M., APABLAZA S., 2011. Hazard Evaluation in Valparaìso: the MAR VASTO Project. Pure And Applied Geophysics, pp 543-582, Vol. 168.
BRANDMAYR E., RAYKOVA R., ZURI M., ROMANELLI F., DOGLIONI C., PANZA G.F., 2010.
The lithosphere in Italy: structure and seismicity.. JOURNAL OF THE VIRTUAL EXPLORER, Vol. 36/2010.
AOUDIA A, ISMAIL-ZADEH A.T., ROMANELLI F., 2007. Buoyancy-driven deformation and contemporary tectonic stress in the lithosphere beneath Central Italy. Terra Nova, vol. 19; p. 490-495, ISSN: 1081-0749, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00776.x.
PAULATTO M, PINAT T., ROMANELLI F. 2007. Tsunami hazard scenarios in the Adriatic Sea domain. Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences, vol. 7; p. 309-325, ISSN: 1684-9981.
ROMANELLI, F., PANZA, G.F. AND VACCARI, F., 2004. Realistic Modelling of the Effects of Asynchronous motion at the Base of Bridge Piers, Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 19-28.
DING, Z., ROMANELLI, F., CHEN, Y.T., PANZA, G. F., 2004. Realistic modelling of seismic wave ground motion in Bejing city, Pure And Applied Geophysics, 161, 1093-1106.
ROMANELLI F., VACCARI F., PANZA G. F., 2003. Realistic Modelling of the Seismic Input: Site Effects and Parametric Studies, Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 5, n. 3, pp. 27-39.
YANOVSKAYA, T.B., ROMANELLI, F., PANZA, G.F., 2003. Tsunami excitation by
inland/coastal earthquakes: the Green function approach, Natural Hazards and Earth System science, 3, 353-365.
PANZA, G.F., VACCARI, F., ROMANELLI, F., 2001. Realistic modeling of seismic input in urban areas: a UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP project, Pure And Applied Geophysics, 158, No 12, 2389-2406.
PANZA, G.F., ROMANELLI, F., 2001. Beno Gutenberg contribution to seismic hazard assessment and recent progress in the European-Mediterranean region, Earth- Science Reviews, 55, 165-180.
EL-SAYED, A., ROMANELLI, F., PANZA, G.F., 2000. Recent seismicity and realistic waveforms modeling to reduce the ambiguities about the 1303 seismic activity in Egypt, Tectonophysics, 328, 341-357.
PANZA G.F., ROMANELLI F., VACCARI, F., 2000. Realistic modelling of waveforms in laterally heterogeneous anelastic media by modal summation, Geophysical Journal International, 143, 340-352.
PANZA G.F., ROMANELLI F., VACCARI, F., 2000. Seismic wave propagation in laterally heterogeneous anelastic media: Theory and applications to seismic zonation, Advances in Geophysics, Vol. 43, pp. 1-95, Academic Press, San Diego.
ROMANELLI, F., VACCARI, F., 1999. Ground motions scenario in the Catania area for a Magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Hyblean fault, JOSE, 3, 311-326.
PANZA G.F., ROMANELLI F., YANOVSKAYA, T., 2000. Synthetic Tsunami mareograms for realistic oceanic models, Geophysical Journal International, 141, 498-508.
PANZA, G.F., VACCARI, F., ROMANELLI, F., 1999. IGCP project 414: realistic modeling of seismic input for megacities and large urban areas, Episodes, 22, 26-32.
ROMANELLI, F., BEKKEVOLD, J., PANZA, G.F., 1997. Analytical computation of coupling coefficients in non-poissonian media, Geophysical Journal International, 129, 205- 208.
ROMANELLI, F., BING, Z., VACCARI F., PANZA, G.F., 1996. Analytical computation of reflection and transmission coupling coefficients for Love waves, Geophysical Journal International, 125, pp. 132-138.
ROMANELLI, F., PANZA, G.F., 1995. Effect of source depth correction on the estimation of earthquake size. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 1017-1019.
