Federico Sani

Biography

March 7, 1983: Degree in Geological Sciences, with 110 praise / 110 thesis, thesis: "Structural analysis of the M.Tambura area, northern Apuan Alps" (Prof. M. Boccaletti rapporteur, Correspondents Prof. G. Gosso, Prof. G. Sguazzoni, Dr. G. Moratti). December 15, 1983 - December 6, 1984: Military service at the Command Transmission of the IV Alpine Army in Bolzano. June 1986 - May 1987: scholar at the Center for Geological Survey of Apennines in relation to the Geosinclinali Mediterranee - Via G.La Pira, 4 - 50121 Florence. 1987-1990: Ph.D. in Earth Sciences - 3rd Cycle - Consortium between the Universities of Parma (administrative headquarters), Florence, Pavia and Ferrara. March 1990: winner of the two-position competition for University Researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences in Florence, July 1990: Taking service as a university researcher. October 1990: Achievement of the title of PhD in Applied Geology and Geology, thesis: "Structural analysis of the area crossing the Cervarola-Falterona Unit on the Marnoso-Arenacea Formation in the area between Firenzuola and the Pupil of the Mandrioles" Tutor Prof. Mario Boccaletti. 1994: confirms as a researcher in SSD GEO / 03 January 2000: Suitability as Second Professor Second Band for SSD GEO / 03-Structural Geology Press Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Florence. 1-2-2000: Calling as a Second Professor Band. 2004 confirms the role of second-tier Professor. 2013 National Scientific Ability to First Range Professor He has been a scientific collaborator of the CNR-Centro di Studio for the Geology of the Apennines and the Perimeter Chains of Florence. Since 2002 he has been associated with the IGG-Institute of Geosciences and Georisorse of CNR. He is associated with the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV) headquartered in Bologna since 2014. He is a member of the College of PhD students in Earth Sciences at the University of Florence since 2000. From 2008 to 2010 he was the Coordinator. It is part of the GIGS Informal Group of Structural Geology. He is a member of the Italian Geological Society. He is a member of the National Council and the Regional Order of Geologists in Tuscany.

Research Interest

Federico Sani's topics of scientific interest are both fragile and ductile structural analysis at all the stairs of the Mediterranean chains with particular reference to Apennine and Morocco. Immediately after the dissertation of the Laurea degree, Federico Sani continued to deal with the geology and structural analysis of the Apuan Alps by extending the investigations also to other neighboring areas, publishing the results and the geological maps. At the same time it was included in the working group for the structural study of neogenic-quaternary basins present in the northern part of the northern Apennines. This topic has become one of the most important research topics both for acquiring many analytical data and for applying and fine-tuning the methods of fragile structural analysis. For this latter aspect, he has benefited from a CNR thematic scholarship. At first such studies have led to the identification of a sequence of compression phases during the evolution of basins. Subsequently, with the progress and the evolution of knowledge, these deformations were framed in a more general evolutionary model also in the light of new and extensive observations. Another research theme was the study of the Apennine thrust chain. This study started in the PhD thesis (1987-90) and then continued and extended to other areas. All the structural evolution has been rebuilt since the first deformative phases, and then the most recent reactivations. The study of the deformations of the Apennine chain was then extended to the analysis of the Mesozoic portion of the Tuscany Succession in the Val di Lima and Monsummano area with major correlations. The acquisition of the structural interpretation techniques of reflection seismic profiles, acquired in repeated stages at Rice University in Houston with the supervision of Prof. AW Bally, has led to further contributions to the integration of surface structural data and the deep structure. Since 1985, he has participated in a bilateral research project between the CNR-Center for Geology of the Apennines and the Perimeter chains of Florence and the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Rabat (Morocco) for the stratigraphic-structural study of the neogene-quaternary basins of Guercif and Meknes-Fes. Within this project, he carried out field missions almost every year, and work was published on the relationship between the deep and deep structure of the studied basins. Since 1995, he has extended his research to the Central and Southern Apennines first in the form of collaboration with oil companies and subsequently independently. The results achieved were published in national and international magazines and new geological papers. Since 2004 he has been involved in the relations between tectonics and the placing of intrusive magmatic bodies in the Tuscan area. In relation to this issue, he was the National Coordinator of the PRIN2005 project entitled: "An integrated geophysical approach - geophysics aimed at studying the relations between tectonic structures and how to put intrusion into the upper crust: the inner edge of the Northern Apennines" which are part of the operating units of Milan, Pisa and Bari. Since 2007 he has been working on the study of the evolution of continental rift with particular regard to the Ethiopian Rift and Dancalia, where he has carried out around 13 missions. Since the early years he has participated and subsequently was responsible for scientific projects at the University (ex 60%) and MURST-MiUR (projects ex 40% and then Prin). Since the early years of his activity he has been or has been a scientific director of research agreements signed with public and private bodies