Eugenio Fazio

He graduated with first-class honours in Geological Sciences from the University of Catania in 2001. He has been an associate professor at the same institution since 2020, having previously worked there as a researcher from 2011. He obtained his PhD in Petrology and Petrography from the university in 2005. Since 2006, he has conducted scientific research in metamorphic petrology, structural geology, petrophysics, microtectonics, field investigations of crystalline terrains, and GIS applications. He has also conducted laboratory petrophysical tests on rocks to explore the correlations between textures and seismic anisotropies. He has also studied abroad, consolidating international scientific collaborations with research groups in Aberdeen, Basel, Berkeley, Clausthal, Kharagpur, Kiel, Liverpool, Stuttgart, Milan, Rome, and Turin, specialising in the study of metamorphic complexes. Since 2007, he has participated in several national research projects (PRIN and FIR) as a member of various research groups. He has attended numerous courses, seminars and conferences on image analysis techniques and the microstructures of naturally deformed rocks. Since 2005, he has taught several courses at the University of Catania, including an optical mineralogy and petrography laboratory course as part of the three-year Geological Sciences degree programme and a crystalline field mapping course as part of the Master's degree programme in Geology and Geophysics. His current research aims to quantify microstructures (e.g. the preferential orientation of mineral crystal lattices and LPOs), deformation rates in shear zones on a crustal scale, and the petrophysical characteristics of naturally deformed rocks. He has also used field investigations and aerial survey images (UAV) to create virtual 3D reconstructions of outcrops.