Coordination

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre 
for Geosciences

Dr. Eleonora Rivalta
(Coordinator)
Helmholtzstraße 6/7
14467 Potsdam

Fon: +49 331 288-28659

eleonora.rivalta(at)gfz-potsdam.de
www.gfz-potsdam.de

Luigi

Research Interests:

Statistical volcanology for eruption forecasting, modelling spatio-temporal distributions for eruption activity, Bayesian hierarchical modelling, statistical seismology, tectonic seismic swarms, volcanic and induced seismicity,
Physics of volcanic systems and of the seismic source. 

Resume:

July 2012-present
Post-Doctoral fellow
GFZ-German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Section 2.1 Physics of Earthquakes and Volcanoes

January 2011-June 2012
Post-Doctoral fellow
University of Hamburg
Department of Geophysics

January 2007-May 2010
PhD candidate
INGV-Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

July 2009-October 2009
Visiting scholar
University of California Santa Cruz
Department of Earth and Planetary Science

September 2008-January 2009
Luigi Passarelli
Visiting scholar
University of California Santa Cruz
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Education:

January 2007 - May 2010
PhD in Geophysics
University of Bologna and INGV-Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

September 2004 –October 2006
MSc in Physics – curriculum in Geophysics
University of Bologna

September 2000 –December2004
BSc in Physics
University of Bologna

News

On 30 June the project was officially concluded. We will continue working as a team until 31 December 2015.

  • The review paper:

Rivalta, E., Taisne, B., Bunger, A. and Katz, R., 2014. A review of mechanical models of dike propagation: schools of thought, results and future directions.

Is now published.