Andrea Cannata
Andrea Cannata earned the degree in Geological Sciences (grade 110/110 cum laude) at the University of Catania. In 2004 he got a Master degree in Theoretical and Applied Geophysics at “Scuola di Formazione post-laurea della Spezia, Università di Pisa”. From 2005 to 2009 he conducted his Ph.D. studies concerning Geodynamics and Seismotectonics at the University of Catania. In March 2009 he got the Ph.D. degree defending the thesis entitled “Location and modeling of the magma plumbing system at Mt. Etna by analyzing seismic long period signals”. In 2007 he was visiting scholar at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (USA). In 2009-2010 he was PostDoc student at the Sezione di Catania, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV-CT), Seismology Division. In 2009 he spent two months at the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington (USA), to develop a monitoring system of seismo-volcanic and infrasonic signals. From 2011 up to 2015 he worked as researcher for the INGV-CT, Seismology Division. From June to July 2013 he was visiting researcher at at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED; Tsukuba, Japan) to study Deep Long Period events recorded at Mt. Fuji. From 2015 to 2018, he was Associate Professor of Geophysics at the University of Perugia (Italy). In 2016-2017 he spent 40 days in Antarctica with the XXXII Italian expedition. From 2018 up to now, he has been Associate Professor of Geophysics at the University of Catania (Italy). In 2024, he took on the role of full professor of Solid Earth Geophysics at the University of Catania.
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My research activity primarily focuses on volcano seismology and acoustics, with particular emphasis on the analysis of seismic and infrasonic signals, the characterization of volcanic sources, and the investigation of magmatic system dynamics through multiparametric approaches. Another major research line concerns ambient seismic noise, seismic interferometry and repeating earthquakes, which are used to investigate temporal changes in crustal properties and fault processes. In recent years, my research has expanded toward the study of microseism and its relationship with sea state, the monitoring of extreme meteo-marine events and meteotsunamis. Further activities concern glacial seismology and polar geophysics, with particular reference to Antarctica and to the interactions among the atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and solid Earth. Across these research topics, I also work on geophysical time-series analysis, signal processing, clustering techniques, machine learning, with applications to the development of automatic and near-real-time geophysical monitoring systems.
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