CRISTIANO COLLETTINI

Education and training
1997 Laurea in Geology at the University of Perugia. (110/110 and honors)
2002 Ph.D. at the University of Perugia.
2003 Postdoc at the University of Perugia.

Research and professional experience:
2004-2010 Lecturer at the University of Perugia.
2010-2013 European Research Council, ERC-Fellow at INGV Roma
2013-2019 Associate Professor at La Sapienza, University of Roma
2019-present Full Professor at La Sapienza, University of Roma

I have focused my research on the mechanics of earthquakes and faulting using an interdisciplinary approach that integrates geological, geophysical and experimental observations on earthquake processes. For me there is much learn by considering phenomena at the boundaries between different disciplines. Applied/unconventional aspects of my research include CO2 sequestration, reservoir characterization and the mechanics of induced vs. triggered seismicity.

These activities have afforded me a very solid yet unusually broad scientific experience in the field of the mechanics of earthquakes and faulting demonstrated by:

1) PUBLICATION RECORD
From 2000, 112 papers (2 on Nature, 1 Nature Geoscience, 3 Nature Communications, 1 Science Advances, 6 in Geology), most of them as first author or having PhD or Post-Docs as first author. Total citations 7006; h-index 49 (source Scopus March 2025).

2) EFFECTIVE TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
2005-2007: Nicola De Paola (Postdoc), now Professor at Durham UK;
2007-2011: Fabio Trippetta (PhD and Post-doc), now Professor at La Sapienza, Roma;
2014-2015: Marco Scuderi (Post-doc) Now Professor at La Sapienza; Roma;
2005-2008: Sergio Mantenuto (PhD); now employed at LEANE international;
2005-2009: Steve Smith (PhD, co-advised), now researcher at Dunedin NZ;
2011-2015: Brett Carpenter (Postdoc), now Professor at Oklahoma University;
2011-2015: Giuseppe Di Stefano (PhD); now senior technologist at INGV;
2011-2017: Telemaco Tesei (PhD and Post-Doc); now Professor at Padova University;
2014-2017: Carolina Giorgetti (PhD); now researcher École normale supérieure Paris;
2016-2020: Marco Mercuri (PhD); now RTdA in Sapienza;
2017-2021: Piercarlo Giacomel (PhD); now Post-Doc in Liverpool;
2019-2021: Giacomo Pozzi post-doc at INGV; now researcher at INGV;
2020-2024: Giuseppe Volpe (PhD); now Post-Doc at La Sapienza, Roma.
2022-2023: Roberta Ruggieri (Post-Doc); now researcher at Eni.
2021- xxxx: Silvio Pardo (PhD)
2023- xxxx: Francesca Rossi (PhD)
2023- xxxx: Giovanni Guglielmi (PhD)
2024- xxxx: Luca Coppola (PhD)

3) PROJECTS
From 2007 I have been the PI of several research project for a total budget of about 3.0 M. Recent ones are:

- 2024-2025: TotalEnergies: Frictional and permeability properties of ternary fault rock composition and their evolution during fluid injections.
- 2024-2025: ENI PI PROMETEO: Characterization of frictional properties and fault slip behavior during fluid pressure stimulations of borehole samples.
- 2021-2023: Supervisor of the Marie Curie Individual Fellow grant awarded to C. Giorgetti, the role of Stress History on the EARthquake potential of faults
- 2022-2023: ENI PI TAPAS2 project dealing with CO2 storage.
- 2021-2023: TOTAL Fault-parallel permeability and response to overpressure: implications for leakage and stability.
- 2020-2021: ENI PI TAPAS project dealing with CO2 storage.

4) INVITED TALKS
From 2006, I have given 20 invited talks at international conferences including 5 invited talks at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting.

5) AWARDS AND HONORS
2001: Student Paper Award American Geophysical Union
2002: SPE-EAGE-Assomineraria Gustavo Sclocchi PhD Theses Award, special mention
2005-2010 Most cited article in Journal of Structural Geology, Collettini et al., 2006.
2008: Shell Prize for the work Smith, Collettini and Holdsworth, JSG, 2008
2010: Seventh Framework Programme “Ideas”, ERC-Consolidator Grant GLASS
2011: Ramsay medal for the paper: Smith, Holdsworth, Collettini C. (2011). GSA Bulletin
2013: Excellence in reviewing from Elsevier

6) INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
Within the Dipartimenti di Eccellenza MIUR-grant 2018-2022, I have been supervising the activities for the development of a new rock mechanics laboratory at Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, in Sapienza. Within this project I have been supervising the activities that have allowed the development of the BRAVA2.0 apparatus. With the ERC GLASS grant I have directed a research group composed of engineers, physics, geologists and seismologists to build a new rock deformation apparatus, named BRAVA (Collettini et al., 2014, International Journal of Rock Mechanics).

Other activities I was involved in regard:

a) Professional service and committees (selected)
From 2011: Editorial Board of Journal of Structural Geology, Elsevier.
2011: Evaluation panel for Post-Doc in Earth Sciences, Greek Government.
2012: Evaluation panel FIRB 2012: Physical Sciences and Engineering.
2013-2017: Editorial board Geology.
2014-2019: Member of the advisory board, Giunta, di Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, Sapienza.
2017-2019: Member of the advisory board, Giunta di Facoltà di Scienze, MM.FF.NN. Sapienza.
2018: co-PI of the DISCO proposal: Drilling Investigation of Seismogenic Crust in Oklahoma
2019-2020: Topical Editor of the European Geosciences Journal, Solid Earth.
2018-present: Member of the committee of the project Dipartimento di Eccellenza, Sapienza.
2022-present: Member of the Giunta di Dipartimento.
2021-present: Coordinator Laure Magistrale, Geologia di Esplorazione, Sapienza.

Reviewer for international scientific journals (in alphabetic order): Annals of Geophysics, Bulletin of Geological Society of America, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth Planets and Space, Earth Science Reviews, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Geology, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of the Geological Society of London, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Structural Geology, Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Review of Geophysics, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, Solid Earth, Tectonophysics, Terranova.

Reviewer for national and international projects: PRIN and FIRB projects, National Science Foundation (USA); Switzerland (Swiss National Science Foundation; ETH), Dutch Research Council (NWO), ERC starting and consolidator grants, Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellow; Paris region fellowship program 2020; Italy-Germany, MIUR-DAAD Joint Mobility Program; French National Agency, ANR, for the Research; PhD evaluation panel in Italy, France, Netherland, New Zealand. Tenure track position evaluation in the US system.

b) Teaching activities (in the last 5 years)
2015-2018 Course of Fondamenti di Geologia Strutturale (6CFU), master’s degree in Exploration Geology;
2015-2018 Field trip at the course Geologia I (3CFU), bachelor’s degree in Geology;
2015-2021: Course of Rock Physics (6CFU), master’s degree in Exploration Geology;
2017-present: Field trip to Elba Island within the course of Geology II (2 CFU);
2018-present: Teaching activity for PhD students in Earth Sciences, University of Sapienza & Roma Tre. Suggestions on how to write a scientific paper.
2019-present: Course of Fisica Terrestre (9CFU), bachelor’s degree in Geology;
2022-present: Course of Earthquake Physics (6CFU), master’s degree in Exploration Geology.

Publications

on SCOPUS:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603213906

on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=xnX6TpEAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao

web-page:
http://www.dst.uniroma1.it/Collettini