Speakers

Christopher Johnson is a research Seismologist/Geophysicist with

training as Feynman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National

Laboratory. His research projects apply machine learning algorithms to seismic

and geodetic data. He received his Ph.D. focused in Earth and Planetary Science

from University of California, Berkeley, specializing in Seismology and Geodesy.

Martijn van den Ende is a geophysicist and postdoctoral researcher at Université Côte d’Azur, affiliated with the Géoazur laboratory and 3IA Côte d’Azur. His research applies machine learning techniques to seismology, with a particular focus on distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), earthquake detection, and earthquake mechanics. 

Valerio Marsocci is an Internal Research Fellow at the ESA Φ-lab, working on geospatial foundation models with a focus on benchmarking them for real-world applications. He received a Ph.D. in Data Science (2019–2023) from Sapienza University of Rome. During his Ph.D., he visited the University of Crete (Greece) and Institut Géographique National (France). He held postdoctoral positions at CNAM (France) and KU Leuven (Belgium)

Chris Marone is a geophysicist and professor at Sapienza University of Rome and Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on earthquake physics and fault mechanics, with particular emphasis on fault zone friction and slow earthquakes. He is known for developing laboratory experiments to simulate fault slip and for applying machine learning to earthquake forecasting.

Alberto Michelini is a geophysicist and Research Director at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Rome. His work focuses on real-time earthquake monitoring, seismic networks, and early warning systems. He is recognized for advancing Italy’s seismic infrastructure and for his contributions to international earthquake monitoring efforts.