Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

General information
Born in Gubbio (PG) 22 August 1959, Resident in Rome, Full Professor in Marine Geology at Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Rome "La Sapienza"; francesco.chiocci@uniroma1.it

Main scientific interests
High-resolution seismic stratigraphy, marine sedimentology and geomorphology, marine geohazard, seafloor mapping, land-to-sea correlation, geological mapping of marine areas.

Projects:
Project Leader of MaGIC (www.magicproject.it), 2007-2013, 5.25M , the largest marine geology program in Italy, funded by National Civil Defense Dept, aimed at defining and mapping marine geohazards along the Italian continental margins. The project involved the whole Italian research institutes (7 universities, 3 CNR institutes and OGS) working in marine geology.
Leader of RITMARE-DEEP SEA (2012-2016) subproject, a large coordinate effort of the Italian Scientific community working in Marine Sciences to increase scientific knowledge and application on the deep sea environments. The sub-project has a budget of 15 M and involves some 50 top Italian research groups in oceanography, biology and geology.
co-Leader of two IGCP (International Geoscience Program) Projects #526 (2007-2012) and #464 (2001-2005) dealing with shelf Quaternary evolution and applicative research on continental shelves. They involved more than 200 researchers from more than 30 countries.
PI of the most funded PRIN project in Earth Sciences in 2007 (coastal landslides), of INGV and GNV projects in Volcanology (Etna and Stromboli volcanoes), responsible of tasks or research units in FIRB (impact of climate change on coastal environment).
Responsible of research contract with Civil Protection Dept to study causes and residual hazard of the 2002 landslide-generated tsunami in Stromboli and other emergencies (Stromboli 2007, Cirò Marina 2005, Costa Concordia wreck stability 2012)
Responsible of task or research unit in EU-Funded TRANSFER (2006-9), BEACHMED (2002-4) and BEACMED-e (2005-8) projects, as well as bilateral projects with Spain and Morocco.
Project Manager of geological mapping (1:50.000 CARG project) of marine areas in 4 geological sheets and Scientific Director of 3 more (since 2000)
Project Responsible for search of relict sand on continental shelves to be used for beach nourishment on long-term projects funded by Regione Lazio and Regione Puglia, Regione Toscana and Regione Basilicata.
PI of FAIVI Eurfleet cruise (2012) on board R/V Atalante on Acores Islands.
Participated to more than 40 scientific cruises (half of them as chief scientist or scientific responsible).

Responsibilities
Since 2013 member of the COI, Italian Oceanographic Commission.
Since 2010 member of an international commission to assess hazards of submarine and coastal volcanoes of Italy, since 2013 chair of the commission.
2008 to present, Chief of the Marine Geology section of the Italian Geological Society
2008 to present, representative of University La Sapienza of the Steering Council of CoNISMA (Italian National Consortium of Universities for Marine Sciences); 2010 to present also member of the Executive Committee of the same consortium.
2010 to present, National representative in SPLASHCOS (2010-13), a EU COST Action aimed at defining submarine prehistoric archaeology on continental shelves.
2006 to 2009, Member of the SARIMED board of directors (company owing and in charge of the management of the Research Vessel Universitatis).
Since its beginning (2006), responsible of the Master program Laurea Magistrale in Scienze del Mare at University of Rome La Sapienza .
Scientific Referee for: Sedimentology, Marine Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, EOS, Geological Society of London, Giornale di Geologia, Annali di Geofisica, Geologica Romana.
Member of international evaluation committee Aeres for CEFREM in 2010 (Univ. Perpignan-CVNRS, France) and of Spanish research contracts Ramon y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva in 2004 and 2005. Of national research projects CoFin, PRIN and CIVR in various yeras.

Teaching and University responsibilities
- Teach courses in Marine Geology, Marine Geophysics, General Geology, Marie Resources Management, Littoral Dynamics.
- As Tutor he supervised 10 PhD and 56 Degree Thesis (Tesi di Laurea) in Geology, Natural Sciences, Environmental Science, Biology, Environmental and Geothecnical Engineering. At present supervises, 2 in Natural Sciences and 2 PhDs.
- Member of Earth Science Department executive commission and of Faculty of Science executive commission.
- Participated to PhD committee at University of Trieste, Bologna, Barcelona, Vigo (Spain) and Ghent (Belgium).

Other
Organized several national and international conferences or workshop. The recent most ones were in Ischia 2009 (Seafloor Mapping for Geohazard assessment, 60 participants) and in Rome 2012 (Sea Level Changes and prehistoric archaeology on continental shelves, 100 participants)
Published some 80 articles in peer reviewed journals and international books. Scopus H-index 12, 437 citations, Google Scholar H-index 18, 950 citations.