Antonio Costa#
| Membership Number: | 5653 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.bo.ingv.it/~costa/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4987-6471 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present: Senior Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- 2019 - 2022: Director of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- 2018 - 2019: Senior Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- 2017 - 2018: Visiting Researcher at GRAMA, Universidad de Nariño, San Juan de Pasto, Colombia; September - October 2017, June - July 2018
- 2015: Sabbatical Visit at Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, April - July 2015, Tokyo, Japan;
- 2013 - 2018: Tenured Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- 2011 - 2012: Research Fellow at the Environmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading, UK (on leave from INGV).
- 2009 - 2010: Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
- 2007 - 2010: Tenured Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy
- 2005 - 2006: Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.
- 2004 - 2005: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Osservatorio Vesuviano
Fields of Scholarship
- Geology
- Geostatistics
- Fluid mechanics
- Volcanology
- Natural hazards
- Geophysics
- Rock mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2019 - present: Since 2019 he is in the list of the "100,000 top scientists" of the world by Ioannidis et al. (2019) (A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384).
- 2019: Research Visiting Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians University - Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Group on Magma to Tephra: Ash in the Earth System, May-June 2019, Munich, Germany
- 2015: Visiting Researcher Fellowship at the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, April - July 2015, Tpkyp, Japan
- 2013: IAVCEI Wager Medalist (Kagoshima, 20 July 2013). The Wager Medal is given every two years (i.e. at both IAVCEI Scientific and General Assemblies), to a scientist up to 15 years after Ph.D acquisition, who has made outstanding contributions to volcanology, particularly in the eight-year period prior to the Award.
- 2009 - 2010: Honorary Research Associate at the Volcanology and Geological Fluid Dynamics group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK;
- 2007 - 2008: NERC Research Visitor at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
- 2002 - 2003: EU Research Training Network Fellowship at the Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;
- 2001 - 2003: University of Bologna Felloship for the PhD course.
