Fabrizio Terenzio Gizzi
Senior Researcher - ISPC branch manager
Professional profile
Geologist | Natural Hazards & Disaster History Specialist | Natural Hazard Socioeconomic Impact Scientists | Natural Hazards and Insurance Specialist | Human-induced Hazards & Cultural Heritage Specialist | NDT and Cultural Heritage Specialist
Geologist and Senior Researcher at CNR ISPC. His research interests focus on the study of the interactions between natural hazards and the built heritage, with particular attention to historic and monumental contexts, with the aim of defining strategies for knowledge advancement, risk prevention, and mitigation. His research is based on the analysis of historical and documentary sources in order to reconstruct the effects of past earthquakes, landslides, and floods, derive useful insights for future risk management, and support territorial planning. His work addresses both the physical damage affecting the anthropogenic landscape and the socioeconomic repercussions in the short, medium, and long term, with specific regard to processes of depopulation and settlement abandonment, associated not only with natural events such as earthquakes, landslides, and floods, but also with factors and dynamics of anthropogenic origin. Within this field, he has carried out a census and cataloguing of Italian ghost towns.
His additional research interests concern the integrated use of non-invasive and non-destructive testing techniques (NDT) for the diagnostics of built heritage and works of art, aimed at identifying deterioration phenomena and internal anomalies, such as cracking, detachments, moisture, voids, and delamination, as well as at defining knowledge frameworks to support conservation, restoration, and monitoring activities.
He has served as scientific lead or co-lead of several research projects, coordinating activities, objectives, and outcomes in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams and external partners. Also engaged in the valorization and dissemination of research results through public engagement initiatives, knowledge transfer, and partnerships with organizations and institutions.
He has received national and international awards and recognitions for his research and dissemination activities. He is the author of approximately 170 publications, including articles in scientific journals, papers in national and international conference proceedings, and monographic studies. He has also served as guest editor of numerous Special Issues and is Associate Editor of several journals, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature) and Sustainability (MDPI). In addition, he has served as reviewer for more than 50 indexed international journals.
CNR Disciplinary Fields and Research Management Sectors
- SH8_1 Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage;
- PE10_20 Geohazards
Groups & Labs CNR ISPC
Remote Sensing e Spatial Data Science Lab →
Publications
Highlight
F.T. Gizzi, J. Kam, D. Porrini (2020). Time windows of opportunities to fight earthquake under-insurance: evidence from Google Trends. EN: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, 61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0532-2
F.T. Gizzi, G. Leucci (2018). Global Research Patterns on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). EN: Surveys in Geophysics 39, 1039–1068. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-018-9475-1
F.T. Gizzi, M. Sileo, M. Biscione, M. Danese, M. Álvarez de Buergo (2016). The conservation state of the Sassi of Matera site (Southern Italy) and its correlation with the environmental conditions analysed through spatial analysis techniques. EN: Journal of Cultural Heritage 17, 61–74.
