Domenico Giardini#
| Membership Number: | 4872 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.erdw.ethz.ch |
Present and Previous Positions
- Full Professor of Seismology and Geodynamics at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, since 1997
- Doctorate in 1987 at the University of Bologna.
- Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University (1982-1986)
- Researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics in Rome (1987-1992)
- Associate Professor of Seismology at the University of Rome III (1992-1997)
- Director of the Swiss Seismological Service until 2011
- President of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in 2011-2012
- Directed the Swiss Competence Center for Environment and Sustainability (CCES) and now leads the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Supply of Electricity (SCCER-SoE)
- Directed the Seismic Risk Sector of the Italian High Risk Commission and was a member of the Nuclear Earthquake Safety Commission of Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Planetology
- Underground laboratories
- Seismic hazard and risk analysis
- Seismology
- Induced seismicity
- Research infrastructures
- Geodynamics
- Gravitational waves
Honours and Awards
- President of the European Seismological Commission (ESC)
- Chair of the International Federation of Seismic Networks (FDSN)
- President of the International Association of Seismology & Physics of the Earth Interior (IASPEI)
- Honorary Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, UK
- Visiting Professor, Caltech
- Nanyang Visiting Professor at NTU, Singapore
