Dr. Umberta Tinivella (Associated PI Unit 3)

Senior researcher and deputy of Geophysical department. 

She is performing research activity Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca MUR - BANDO 2022 PNRR using techniques and approaches of oil&gas upstream in the field of applied geophysics, petrophysics, basin analysis, aquifers, pore fluid analysis, focusing on natural gas hydrates in marine and permafrost environments. 

In 1998 she received the Cagniard Award for the poster presented at the EAGE Conference. She performed simulation of acoustic wave propagation along the drill string considering the border condition (formation, mud, variable geometry, etc.). She studied the possibility to predict overpressure zones from analysis of seismic, log and laboratory data, by using elastic theories, which relate physical properties of rocks to pore pressure in the frame of EU project. 

In 2005, she received the Best Poster Presentation at the Near Surface Conference. Presently, she works on fluid topic, considering standard and non-conventional processing of seismic data, such as pre-stack depth migration, Amplitude Versus Offset, seismic inversion, modeling and theoretical models to describe the physical properties of fluid, and in particular gas hydrate- and free gas-bearing sediments. She developed a procedure to estimate the concentrations of gas hydrate and free gas from seismic and well data. She is/was the leader of several Gas Hydrate Project supported by the Italian government, Oil Company and EU. She is the author of many technical reports and papers on gas hydrate topic and she received several invitations to present her work. Moreover, she is active in the dissemination of her research. 

Bibliometric data: H-index 23 (Scopus); 1746 Citations by 1141 documents 

Dr. Michela Giustiniani (Team Component Unit 3)

Senior researcher, she has a PhD in applied geophysics at University of Trieste. 

Her research is interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of seismic analysis, theory and modelling. Recently, she have primarily focused on the study of: 1. Theoretical model to describe the effects of gas hydrates on climate changes in the most sensitive areas (Antarctica and Arctic); 2. Advanced processing, such as WED applied to crustal, high-resolution land seismic; 3. Seismic modelling to describe the seismic effects of hydrate and free gas presence and overpressure conditions; 4. Integration analysis of different geophysical datasets; 5. Utilization of GIS for integration of datasets. The above approaches are applied to different targets: characterization of gas hydrate reservoirs, effects of climate change, and P/T changes in general, on hydrate stability, characterization of aquifers, and analysis of crustal data. The developed procedures have been the subject of several invited talks and lectures.

Bibliometric data: H-index 14 (Scopus); 662 Citations by 503 documents