PRESTI Debora

Debora Presti – Full Professor, SSD GEOS-04/A “Solid Earth Geophysics”, GSD 04/GEOS-04, at the University of Messina. Degree in Physics and PhD in Geophysics for Environment and Territory.
Author of more than 50 publications in international journals, D. Presti has also produced numerous conference contributions as well as several book chapters and articles in scientific outreach journals. Her research activity is mainly focused on the analysis of seismicity, with particular attention to the development of innovative methodologies for earthquake location and the characterization of seismogenic structures. Her research includes the study of major earthquakes and tsunamis in southern Italy, focal mechanism computation, stress field inversion, seismic tomography, modeling of coseismic stress fields, and seismicity analysis along major strike-slip fault systems and convergent margins.
President of the Master’s Degree Program in “Geophysical Sciences for Seismic Risk”, UNIME (2020–2025), currently Vice-President.
Member of the Board of the “Interuniversity Center for Three-Dimensional Seismotectonic Analysis” (since 2023).
Head of the Earth Sciences Section of the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences for the 2024–2027 term at UNIME, and Member of the Department Board.
Head of the Working Group “Earthquake Seismology” within the PRIN 2017 Project “Overtime tectonic, dynamic and rheologic control on destructive multiple seismic events” (2019–2023).
Head of the UNIME Research Unit for the INGV-DPC/S1 2014/2015 Project “Base-knowledge improvement for assessing the seismogenic potential of Italy” (2014–2015).
Head of the UNIME Research Unit for the INGV-DPC/S1 2012/2013 Project “Improvement of seismotectonic knowledge in the Calabrian-Lucanian sector” (2012–2013).
D. Presti has participated as a research collaborator in approximately 20 national and international projects.