Rosanna Maniscalco

EDUCATION
1995 – Ph.D. Earth Sciences    University of Catania. Thesis  on “Tectonics and sequence stratigraphy of Upper Tortonian-Lower Messinian basins in central-southern Sicily"
1990 – B.S. + M.S. Geology, 110/110 cum laude,   University of Catania, Italy
Visiting Ph.D. student (1992) @University of Leeds (UK) – Host: Prof. Robert W.H. Butler
•    ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2016 -  National Scientific Habilitation for the role of Full Professor,  Sector 04/A2 Structural Geology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology.
2010 - Associate Professor in Geology, University of Catania, IT.
2006 – Visiting Researcher @GEOMAR, Kiel (Germany)-  Project title: “The Volcaniclastic apron of Gran Canaria and Guimar debris avalanche”, Host: Prof. Dr. H. U. Schmincke.
2004-2010 – Research Fellowship University of Catania.
2000 – Visiting Researcher @ GEOMAR, Kiel (Germany)  Vigoni, Programme 2000, CRUI-DAAD- Project title: "Neotectonic deformation processes in SE Sicily and their relationships to active regional tectonics in the Central Mediterranean", Host: Prof. Dr. H. U. Schmincke.
1999 - Visiting Researcher @ GEOMAR, Kiel (Germany) - Socrates project: “Volcaniclastic apron of Gran Canaria (ODP, Leg157)” Host: Prof. Dr. H. U. Schmincke.
1997-1999 - Post-doc University of Catania, IT.
1997: Visiting Researcher @ GEOMAR, Kiel University (Germany). Project title: “Volcaniclastic apron of Gran Canaria (ODP, Leg 157)” Host:  Prof. Dr. H. U. Schmincke.
1995 – Post-doc Istituto di Geologia Marina (IGM, now ISMAR) of CNR – Bologna, Italy: Project title: “"Seismic stratigraphy of the front of the Gela Nappe in the offshore of Gela-Licata-Agrigento".”, Tutor Dr. Andrea Argnani.
•    ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES

2024 - Present - International and Erasmus Departmental Coordinator
2024- present Coordinator of Ph.D. School in Earth and Environment Science Cycles XXXVII-XIX -  University of Catania; 
2012 - present: Member of the Board of Instructors for the Ph.D. School in Earth Science, University of Catania;
2013 - 2023: Students Orientation delegate for Earth Sciences courses.
2013 - 2019: Departmental Quality Assessment (QA) Responsible, Catania University.
2017-2024: Member of Commissione Paritetica Docenti-Studenti of the Department.
•    SUPERVISION OF Ph.D. STUDENTS
2012-¬‐2016: Co-¬‐Supervisor of Patricia Romagna Pinter (Ph.D. student in Geology, University of Aberdeen, UK) Project: “Interaction of deep-¬‐water sandstones with the substrate: analogues from Numidian turbidites (Sicily, Italy)”.
2015-¬‐2018: Supervisor of Alessandra G. Pellegrino, Ph.D. student University of Catania, Project: “Understanding block rotation of strike-¬‐slip fault zones in Yunnan (China): paleomagnetic and structural approach.
2020-2023: Supervisor of Martina Forzese, Ph.D. student of the University of Catania, Project: "The response of coastal carbonate parasequences to relative sea-level change and evolving palaeoclimatic proxies".
2024-present: Supervisor of Federica Sindoni: Ph.D. student of the Uiversity of Catania, Project: "Georisks in the Sicily Channel (Sicily, Italy).
•    REVIEWING AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
2024 - Associate Editor of Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, Geological Field Trips and Maps, Geological Field trips.
2012 - present: Member of the MIUR referee panel (SIR, FIRB and PRIN PROJECTS).
Referee for papers submitted to Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Palaeo3, Tectonics, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology. Editorial Board Member of MDPI Journal Earth. 
Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Italian Journal of Geosciences. 
Topic Editor of the Research Topic "Source or Sink? Erosional and Depositional Signatures of Tectonic Activity in Deep-Sea Sedimentary Systems" Frontiers.
Guest Editor of Special Volume "Advances in Marine Micropaleontology" MDPI.
 

 REVIEW OF RESEARCH/INSTITUTIONS QUALITY 

2025 - present: ​ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) expert for Earth Sciences

•    2020-2021 ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) - GEV04 Earth Sciences (VQR 2015-2019)
•    2020-2023 Member of the Quality Evaluation Group of Arts Academy, Catania

•    RESEARCH CRUISES PARTICIPATION
2018-21 EDISON Sicily Channel – Vega platform
1995 – CNR Exp. CS95 Sicily Channel Deep-sea dredging of sediment-starved steep reliefs in the Strait of Sicily
1994 - ODP EXP.157 Gran Canaria-Madeira Abyssal Plain 

ORGANIZATION OF MEETINGS/FIELD TRIPS (convener and/or Sc. and Organizing Committee):

27 September-3 October 2025 - RCMNS Interim Colloquium, «Towards a process based understanding of the Mediterranean Neogene» Catania

30 June-4 July 2022 Young Researchers in Structural Geology and Tectonics (YORSGET)
4 July -10 July 2022 - DRT 2022, Catania, Sicily.
25-26 February 2021 – 4° Convegno dei Geologi marini italiani. Online. Convener of the Workshop: “Crisi di salinità messiniana: stato di avanzamento”.
2018-  SGI-SIMP 2018 "Geosciences for environment, natural hazards and cultural heritage", Settembre 2018 - Catania. 
2015- Riunione annuale del Gruppo Italiano Geologia Strutturale (GIGS), Catania, 30 settembre 2015. 2012- Giornate di Paleontologia XII edizione, Catania, 24-26 maggio 2012. 2012 - 86° Congresso Nazionale della Società Geologica Italiana, Arcavacata di Rende, 18-20 SETTEMBRE 2012. 2008 “Tethys to Mediterranean: a journey of geological discovery. Meeting in memory of Angelo Di Grande and Mario Grasso”, Catania, 3-5 giugno 2008. 1997 - Interim Colloquium Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy (RCMNS) “Neogene Basins of the Mediterranean Region: Controls and correlation in space and time” (Catania, 4-9 Novembre). 
2013- Field leader COCARDE Workshop and Field Seminar “Bridging off-shore and on-land research on carbonate mounds: common concepts and techniques Carbonate buildups from Sicily: Triassic to Quaternary examples”, Sicily, 23-27 September 2013. 2015 - Field leader Meeting AAPG “Fractured reservoirs: Geological, Geophysical and Engineering Tools to crack them”, 16-17 April 2015.

ACTIVITY IN THE FRAME OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES
Responsible of several Erasmus + Agreements and International/Erasmus  Delegate of Department
1.    May 2025: Visiting Professor in the frame of STA @ UNiversity of Katowice (Poland)
2.    June 2024: Visiting Professor in the frame of STA @ University of Niece (France)
3.    October 2022: Visiting Researcher @ University of Stavanger (Norway)
4.    May 2019: Visiting Professor in the frame of STA (Staff Teaching Exchange) Erasmus Programme at the University of Kiel (Germany)
5.    June 2017: Visiting Professor in the frame of STA (Staff Teaching Exchange) Erasmus Programme at the University of Lubjana (Slovenja)
6.    July 2015: Visiting Professor in the frame of STA (Staff Teaching Exchange) Erasmus Programme at theUniversity of ERLANGEN (GERMANY).
7.    June 2014: Visiting professor in the frame of STA (Staff Teaching Exchange) Erasmus Programme at the Geology and Petroleum Geology Department of Aberdeen University.

Last edit: 07/24/2025

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MAIN RECENT PAPERS

NEW! Adám Nádudvari, Rosanna Maniscalco, Martina Forzese, Dorota Staneczek, Dariusz Więcław, Giovanni Silvio Cassarino, Ewa Szram, Leszek Marynowski, Source of biodegraded oil seep and bitumen rock-impregnations from the Sicilian Orogen and Foreland (Italy): Rock-Eval 6/7S and GC-MS approach, International Journal of Coal Geology, Volume 312, 2025, 104900, ISSN 0166-5162,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2025.10490 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166516225002174?dgcid=coauthor.​

1. MANISCALCO, R., FORZESE, M., BARBAGALLO, V., BORZÌ, L., D'ANDREA, N. M., DISTEFANO, S., GIUSTOLISI, C., NÁDUDVARI, Á., PELLEGRINO, A. G., FORESI, L. M., & DI STEFANO, A.  (2023). Toward an Astrochronology-Based Age-Model for a Messinian Pre-Evaporitic Succession: The Example of Torrente Vaccarizzo Section in Sicily (Italy). J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11, 915. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11050915
2.  NÁDUDVARI, Á., , FORZESE M., MANISCALCO R., et al. (2022). The transition toward the Messinian evaporites identified by biomarker records in the organic-rich shales of the Tripoli Formation (Sicily, Italy) International Journal of Coal Geology, 2022, 260, 104053
3. NÁDUDVARI A., ABRAMOWICZ A., MANISCALCO R., VICCARO M. (2020). The Estimation of Lava Flow Temperatures Using Landsat Night-Time Images: Case Studies from Eruptions of Mt. Etna and Stromboli (Sicily, Italy), Kilauea (Hawaii Island), and Eyjafjallajökull and Holuhraun (Iceland). Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 2537; doi:10.3390/rs12162537.
4. BUTLER R.W.H., PINTER P. R., MANISCALCO R., HARTLEY A. (2020). Deep-water sand-fairway mapping as a tool for tectonic restoration: decoding Miocene central Mediterranean palaeogeography using the Numidian turbidites of southern Italy. Journal of the Geological Society,  https://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/early/2020/04/08/jgs2020-008
5. SPERANZA F., PELLEGRINO A. G., ZHANG B., MANISCALCO R., CHEN S., & HERNANDEZ‐MORENO C. (2019). Paleomagnetic evidence for 25–15 Ma crust fragmentation of north Indochina (23–26°N): Consequence of collision with Greater India NE corner? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 5425–5448. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008308
6. MANISCALCO R., CASCIANO C.I., DISTEFANO S., GROSSI F. & DI STEFANO A. (2019). Facies analysis in the Second Cycle Messinian evaporites predating the early Pliocene reflooding: the Balza Soletta section (Corvillo Basin, central Sicily). Italian Journal of Geosciences, 138:301-316. https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2019.06
7. BUTLER R.W.H., MANISCALCO R., PINTER P. (2019). Syn-kinematic sedimentary systems as constraints on the structural response of thrust belts: re-examining the structural style of the Maghrebian thrust belt of Eastern Sicily. Italian Journal of Geosciences, 138: 371-389. https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2019.11
8. GAMBINO S., FAZIO E., MANISCALCO R., PUNTURO R., LANZAFAME G., BARRECA G., BUTLER R.W.H. (2019). Fold-related deformation bands in a weakly buried sandstone reservoir analogue: A multi-disciplinary case study from the Numidian (Miocene) of Sicily (Italy), Journal of Structural Geology, Volume 118, 2019, Pages 150-164, ISSN 0191-8141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.10.005
9. PELLEGRINO A.G., ZHANG B., SPERANZA F., MANISCALCO R., YIN C., HERNANDEZ-MORENO C., WINKLER A. (2018). Tectonics and paleomagnetic rotation pattern of Yunnan (24°N-25°N, China): Gaoligong fault shear vs. mega-block drift. Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017TC004899
10. PINTER P.R., BUTLER R.W.H., HARTLEY A., MANISCALCO R., BALDASSINI N., DI STEFANO A. (2017). Tracking sand-fairways through a deformed turbidite system: the Numidian (Miocene) of Central Sicily, Italy. Basin Research (2017) 1–22, doi: 10.1111/bre.12261
11. PINTER P.R., BUTLER R.W.H., HARTLEY A., MANISCALCO R., BALDASSINI N., DI STEFANO A. (2016). The Numidian of Sicily revisited: A thrust-influenced confined turbidite system. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 78: 291-311. 
12. PELLEGRINO A., MANISCALCO R., SPERANZA F., HERNANDEZ-MORENO C., STURIALE G. (2016). Paleomagnetism of the Hyblean Plateau, Sicily: A review of the existing data set and new evidence for lack of block rotation from the Scicli–Ragusa Fault System. Ital. J. Geosci., 135 (2): 300-307. DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2015.30 
13. DI STEFANO A., BALDASSINI N., MANISCALCO R., SPERANZA F., MAFFIONE M., CASCELLA A., FORESI L.M., (2015). New bio-magnetostratigraphic data on the Miocene Moria section (Northern Apennines, Italy): connections between the Mediterranean region and the North Atlantic Ocean. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Volume 48, Number 2, April 2015, pp. 135-152(18). 
14. LA RUSSA M.F., BELFIORE C., FICHERA G.V., MANISCALCO R., CALABRO’ C., RUFFOLO S.A., PEZZINO A. (2015). The behaviour to weathering of the Hyblean limestone in the Baroque architecture of the Val di Noto (SE Sicily): an experimental study on the “Calcare a Lumachella stone”. Construction and Building Materials, 77, Pages 7–19,doi:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.11.073. 
15. BONFORTE A., CATALANO S., MANISCALCO R., PAVANO F., ROMAGNOLI G., STURIALE G. & TORTORICI G. (2015). Geological and Geodetic Constraints on the Deformation along the Active Northern Margin of the Hyblean Plateau (Se Sicily). TECTONOPHYSICS, vol. 640-641, p. 80-89, ISSN: 0040-1951, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2014.11.024. 
16. BUTLER R.W.H., MANISCALCO R., STURIALE G. & GRASSO M. (2015). Stratigraphic variations control deformation patterns in evaporite basins: Messinian examples, onshore and offshore Sicily (Italy). Journal of the Geological Society, v. 172:113-124, first published on November 27, 2014, doi:10.1144/jgs2014-024. 
17. ROSSO A., SANFILIPPO R., RUGGIERI R., VERTINO A., MANISCALCO R. (2015). Exceptionally preserved submarine cave communities: the Pleistocene Rumena Cave (Sicily, Italy). LETHAIA, ISSN: 0024-1164, doi: DOI 10.1111/let.12094 

Project Participation and Coordination

Participant in numerous PRIN projects (2003, 2006, 2008, and 2010-2011) and agreements with public bodies (Sicilian Region, Molise Region, etc.) regarding geological mapping.
Scientific coordinator of the FIR 2014 project, University of Catania, entitled: "Deep-sea sandstones in Sicily (DWSS): known gas reservoirs and potential CO2 storage sites."
Scientific coordinator of the CHANCE project, University of Catania, 2016-2018.
Scientific coordinator of the project entitled "Relationships between tectonics and sedimentation in the Mediterranean area from the Neogene to the Quaternary," University of Catania 2016-2018.
Scientific coordinator of the University of Catania PIACERI 2020-2022 project entitled "DATASET: FROM rifTing TO CONTINENTAL COLLISION: STRATIGRAPHIC-STRUCTURAL STUDY OF THE IBLEAN SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE, GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE OF SOUTH-ESTERN SICILY."
Scientific coordinator of the University of Catania PIACERI 2024-2026 1 project entitled "SLIDE: SLump Deposits and Turbidity Currents in the Stratigraphic Record."
Co-coordinator (2023/2024) and Coordinator (2024/2025) of the PRIN PNRR 2022 project entitled: "Testing the efficiency of submarine landslides on organic carbon sequestration over geological times”, CUP E53D23022020001.

I carry out Third Mission activities and was recently the scientific manager of third-party agreements between Panther Eureka s.r.l./Maurel et Prom, IDEA s.r.l. (total budget approximately €170,000) and the University of Catania, and between the Rocca di Cerere UNESCO Global Geopark and the University of Catania. I was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Petroleum Geology Student Contest.
I was responsible for Departmental Students Orientation, I carry out scientific dissemination activities and collaborate with national popular science journals.