Simona Scollo

Simona Scollo received the degree in physics (with hons.) from the University of Catania, Canania, Italy, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in physical modeling for environmental protection from the Università Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2006. She is currently a Researcher with the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo, Linguaglossa, Italy. She was a Visiting Scientist with the University of Geneva in 2015; with the Dipartimento of di Fisica, Università di Federico II, Napoli, Italy, in 2011; with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA), Pasadena, USA, in 2010; with the Barcellona Supercomputer Center in 2008; with the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, in 2005; with the Department of Geology and Geophysics School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at Manoa, Hawaii, in 2003 and 2005. She has authore or coauthored 35 papers in refereed international journals, and more than 80 presentations at international conferences and workshops. Her research interests include analysis of the dispersal and fallout processes of eruptive plumes during explosive eruptions; calibration, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty estimation of ash dispersal models; laboratory and field experiments; development of a multidisciplinary system for the detection and monitoring of volcanic plumes, and analysis of explosive activity using different remote sensing techniques (e.g., radar, lidar, satellites, etc.). Prof. Scollo was the Editor of a Special Issue in Atmospheric Emissions from Volcanoes, Scientific Committee for FisMat 2015, and a Co-Convenor and the Chairman in different sessions of the European Geosciences Union and International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. She is a Referee for several international journals. She coordinated several projects and one of them, the VAMOS SEGURO project, was selected in 2012 as a “best practice” among several European Cooperation Projects. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Rittmann medal for young researchers in volcanology and in 2010 the paper Scollo et al. was selected for the “AGU Research Spotlight”.