Domenico Giardini
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Domenico Giardini is Full Professor of Seismology and Geodynamics at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, since 1997. Prof. Giardini was born on March 19, 1958 in Bologna, Italy. He studied Physics and completed his doctorate in 1987 at the University of Bologna. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University (1982-1986), researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics in Rome (1987-1992) and Associate Professor of Seismology at the University of Rome III (1992-1997). He was the Director of the Swiss Seismological Service until 2011 and President of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in 2011-2012.
Research Interest
Earthquake Safety
