Sabrina Grassi

Sabrina Grassi is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTT – Ricercatrice a Tempo Determinato in Tenure Track) in the scientific-disciplinary field GEOS-04/B – Applied Geophysics at the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Catania.

She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Geological Sciences in 2009 and, with honours, her Master’s degree in Geophysical Sciences in 2011 from the University of Catania. In 2013, she obtained the professional qualification to practice as a Geologist and, in 2017; she was awarded a PhD in Geological, Biological and Environmental Sciences. From 2017 to 2025, she carried out research activities at the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences as the recipient of research fellowships and grants in the field of Applied Geophysics. In 2022, she obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, ASN) for the role of Associate Professor in the academic field 04/A4 – Geophysics. In 2025, she was appointed as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Catania. Since May 2026, she has been a member of the Departmental Joint Committee for Teaching Staff and Students.

Her teaching activity at the University of Catania began in the academic year 2017/18 as a Subject Expert (Cultore della Materia) for the courses Geophysical Exploration of the Subsurface, Geophysics of Urban Areas, and Environmental Geophysics. From the academic year 2021/22 to 2023/24, she served as an adjunct lecturer for the course Environmental Geophysics and, in the academic year 2023/24, she also taught the Environmental Geophysics module within the course Exploration Geophysics and Environmental Geophysics of the Master’s Degree Programme in Geology and Geophysics. Since the academic year 2025/26, she has been the course lecturer for Environmental Geophysics within the Master’s Degree Programme in Geology and Geophysics, where she also serves as Faculty Tutor for the Geophysics field.

Her research activity focuses on the application of non-invasive geophysical methods for subsurface characterization, with particular emphasis on the protection of cultural and archaeological heritage, seismic microzonation and local seismic response studies, the investigation of faults and landslide phenomena, and the identification and characterization of underground cavities.

She is the author of 36 scientific papers published in Scopus-indexed journals and of numerous contributions presented at national and international conferences.