ORECCHIO Barbara

PRESENT POSITION
Full Professor of Solid Earth Geophysics (SSD GEO/10, SC 04/A4) at the Messina University

B. Orecchio is Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Geophysical Union (from October 2021). She is actually member of the Academic Board and responsible of the Research Unit of Messina University in the framework of the Interuniversity Center for Research on 3D-Seismotectonics CRUST (“Centro InterRUniversitario per l’Analisi SismoTettonica tridimensionale con applicazioni territoriali”).


TEACHING ACTIVITY
•Main courses at Messina University
- "Geophysical Tools - Geophysical observation methods and remote sensing" (6 CFU), MDC in Geophysical Sciences for Seismic Risk (A.Y. 2020/2021 to present).
-"Geophysics and Remote Sensing" (6 CFU), MDC in Maritime and Air Transportation Sciences and Logistics (A.Y. from 2020/2021 to present).
- "Physics of the Earth" (6 CFU), BDC in Physics (A.Y. from 2012/2013 to 2020/2021)
- "Environmental Remote Sensing" (6 CFU), MDC in Protection and Management of Land and Natural Environment (A.Y. 2016/2017 to 2018/2019)
- "Geophysical methods for solid and fluid Earth investigation - Geophysical observation methods and remote sensing" (6 CFU), MDC in Geophysical Sciences for Seismic Risk (A.Y. 2019/2020).


MAIN RESEARCH FIELDS
• Implementations of new seismic tomography techniques and earthquake location methods.
• Seismotomography analyses for crustal and sub-crustal characterization.
• Studies of seismicity and focal mechanisms with particular reference to the Calabrian Arc region
• Waveform inversion for moment tensor estimation. Computation of seismogenic stress and seismic strain fields.
• Studies of seismic ground shaking with analytical methods for seismic hazard analyses.
• Investigations on strong earthquakes and tsunamis of South Italy.


BIBLIOMETRIC PARAMETERS (Scopus, May 2023)
• Articles: 52
• Citations: 1618
• h-index: 25