PENNACCHIONI GIORGIO

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER
2013 Full Professor of Structural Geology, University of Padua, Italy (UniPD)
2004 Associate Professor in Structural Geology, UniPD
1993 Assistant Professor in Structural Geology, UniPD
1989 – Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, UniPD
1987 Degree cum laude in Geological Sciences, University of Padua (UniPD)
RESEARCH TRAINING ABROAD
1985-86: 6 months at Université Claude Bernard, Lion (France)
1992: 6 months at Geologische Insitut, ETH-Zurich (CH)
2004: 2 months at ANU (Australian National University), Canberra (Australia)
2010-2011: 2 months at Dept. Geodyn. Sedim., University of Vienna (Austria).
SCIENTIFIC AREAS
The research activity, mainly in the field of Structural Geology, has focussed on:
– nucleation of localized ductile shear zones in the Earth’s lithosphere
– exhumed pseudotachylyte-bearing (paleoseismic) faults to infer the mechanical and chemical
processes of an earthquake source
– the association of coeval pseudotachylytes (seismic brittle faulting) and mylonites (ductile flow)
as a proxy of the seismic cycle at depth
– microstructures and deformation mechanisms of quartz (as representative mineral of the
continental crust) in mylonites
– role of fluids in deformation of rocks at depth
RESEARCH PAPERS
69 ISI papers, h-index: 29; 2600 citations
INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS
Seminars: ISPET, Venice, I (2003); Camberra, ANU, Australia (2004); ETH-Zurich, CH (2000,
2004, 2010); Freiburg, D, (2007), Goettingen, D (2007), DFZ-Potsdam, D (2007); Nice, F (2008);
DIPTERIS-Genova, I (2009); Wien, A (2010); Erlangen, D (2012); Wuhan, China (2016).
Invited talks (invited speaker or co-author): 2nd Symposium Tokio, JP (2004); EGU (2004, 2008,
2019); IGC, Florence, I (2004); GeoscienceAfrica, Johannesburg, SA (2004); AGU (2009(2), 2016);
ICEDI, Wuhan, China (2016) GeoAlps, Fortezza, I (2017, keynote)
EXPERTISE IN RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Coordinator or P.I. of projects:
– “Le zone di shear milonitico: uno strumento di interpretazione reologica” (2000-2001) UniPD
– “Study of seismic sources from exhumed fault zones” (2005) INGV
– “Exhumed granitoids: a proxy of the deformation at depth in the continental crust, (2012-2013)
UniPD
– “Determination of earthquake source parameters and fault-plane processes in exhumed
paleoseismic faults” (2006-2009), MIUR (national and local P.I.)
– “Revealing the secrets of an earthquake: physico-chemical constraints from a multidisciplinary
study of exhumed faults. Ca.Ri.Pa.Ro. (2007-2009)
AFFILIATIONS
Società Geologica Italiana (SGI); European Geological Union (EGU); American Geophysics Union
(AGU)
SERVICES FOR SOCIETIES
Committee Member of the IUGS Commission “Task Group on Tectonics and Structural Geology”
(since 2011)
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
co-convener of symposia, sessions and workshops:
– EGU (2006; 2012(2); 2013, 2014); DRT 2007; SIMP-SGI-So.Ge.I-AIV 2015; SGI 2016
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Advisory Board of the: Italian Journal of Geoscience (2010-2012)
Managing editor: (i) Special Issue ” Physico-Chemical Processes in Seismic Faults”, J. Struct. Geol.
38, 1-278 (2012); (ii) “Deformation mechanisms and ductile strain localization in the lithosphere”.
Solid Earth
REFEREE for: Science Advances, Geology, Scientific Reports, Earth Sci. Rev., Geosci. Frontiers,
G-cubed, Lithos, J. Metam. Geol., J. Struct. Geol., J. Geophys. Research., Geol. Mag., Geol. Soc.
Am. Bull., Tectonophysics, Tectonics, AGU monographs, Terra Nova, Solid Earth, Geophys. Res.
Lett., J. Geodyn., Memorie di Scienze Geologiche, Periodico di Mineralogia
External member of evaluation panels of 7 PhD thesis: 3 ETH-Zurich, CH (2003, 2017, 2017);
University of Mainz, D (2007); Université de Franche-Comté, F (2010); University of Vienna,
(2015); University of Oslo, N (2019).
REVIEWING OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
Referee for: Swiss-NF (2005); US-NSF (2008); I-PNRA (2017, 2018).
TRAINING OF RESEARCH
Coordinator of 5 international Summer Schools of the European Geological Union (2010, 2012,
2015, 2017, 2019)
Coordinator of field excursion of the “Pialli structural geology School (2006)
Supervisor of 6 Ph.D. thesis and 2 post-Doc.