Prof. Warner Marzocchi, Professor for Geophysics and Natural Hazard Forecasting at the Universtiy of Naples, Federico II, has been appointed on 13 November 2024 in the 64th Meeting of the Board of Trustees to the Scientific Advisory Board of the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences and assumed his position on 1 January 2025. 

The Scientific Advisory Council of the GFZ advises the Board of Trustees and the Executive Board on all areas of research and development. The consultation explicitly includes the strategy and planning of the research and development work at the GFZ, exploitation of results, collaboration with national and international institutions as well as appointment matters.

About the person

The geophysicist Prof Warner Marzocchi has been Professor of Geophysics and Natural Hazard Forecasting at the University of Naples, Federico II, and at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale since 2018. In 1995, he was appointed Associate Professor of the Physics of Volcanism at the Observatorio Vesuviano in Naples. His scientific career has taken him to Japan as a visiting professor at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics and to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as a visiting scientist, before returning to Italy and working as Chief Scientist at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Rome from 2013-2018. 

His current research is focused on seismic and volcanic hazard analysis, earthquake and eruption forecasting, statistical seismology, and testing natural hazard models. 

Since 2019, Prof. Marzocchi has been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide across all disciplines, as shown in the study by Ioannidis, John P.A. (2023) (‘October 2023 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators”’, Elsevier Data Repository, V6). He has also been a member of Academia Europaea since 2018. 

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