JUNE 2014 PhD University of Grenoble, Geophysics Dissertation: “Utilisation du bruit sismique pour l'imagerie de la croûte, du manteau et du noyau terrestre” Committee: Anne Paul (chair), Andrea Morelli, Heiner Igel With Special Mention.
DECEMBER 2010 MS University of Siena, Applied Geophysics. Thesis: “Measuring dispersion curve from seismic noise” Advisor: Fabio Mantovani. Graduated Summa Cum Laude.
DECEMBER 2007 BS University of Siena, Earth Science. Thesis: “Inferring the tectonic control on landslides and other geomorphological features using remote sensing” Graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Spoken languages Italian, English, French, Spanish.
Editorial services Reviewer for: Geophysical Journal International, Journal of Geophysical Research, Interpretation, Journal of Seismology, Geophysical Research Letters, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, Seismological Research Letters, Geophysics, ANR, NSF.
Research Experience
20014-2017 Research Scientist, MIT, Cambridge, USA Project 1: Analysis of induced seismicity while fracking. Project 2: Characterization of rheological properties on subduction zones. Project 3: Imaging sedimentary basins for hazard assessment, using seismic noise.
20013-2014 Post-doctoral associate, MIT, Cambridge, USA Advisor: German Prieto Project 1: Analysis of deep seismicity. Project 2: Analysis of seismic ambient noise correlation. Project 3: Imaging with scattered waves. Project 4: Analysis of scattered waves.
2010-2013 PhD, ISTerre, Grenoble, France Advisors: Michel Campillo and Helle A. Pedersen Project: Retrieval of seismic body waves with seismic noise correlation and imaging of deep Earth structure.
2010-2013 Intership, ISTerre, Grenoble, France Advisors: Michel Campillo and Helle A. Pedersen Project: Analysis of seismic noise and its correlation properties, tomography. Professional Courses Seismic reflection method for Oil & Gas, April 2008. CGT, Siena. Digital photogrammetry for geomorphology and archeology, March 2007. CGT, Siena.
Awards
Grenoble University best PhD thesis award, Grenoble University, November 2014. · Marie
Conferences Chaired
AGU 2016 – General Seismology – Earthquake sources – Session.
AGU 2015 – Theoretical and Practical Advancements on Seismic Interferometry and Ambient Noise Session.
EGU 2014 – Quantitative Estimation of Earth Source and Structure (QUEST) session.
Supervisor & Teaching Activity
Tutoring of one international graduate student working on seismic scattering. Tutoring of one international graduate student working dynamic earthquake rupture. Tutoring of one summer intership program undergraduate student funded by IRIS (website: http://www.iris.edu/hq/internship/about).
Academic Activities
Responsible for laboratory (EPAS-MIT) seminar series [year 2015-2016].
Organization of earthquake source reading group at MIT [year 2015-2016].
Convener at AGU and EGU sessions on ambient seismic noise, earthquake sources and general seismology.
Invited speaker for the geophysics group at the Italian school of physics.
Visiting researcher at University of Chile (Santiago) on November 2014 and July 2016, funded by national research institute of Chile.
Visiting researcher at University of Science and Technology (Hefei, China) on November 2016.
Outreach Activities
Deep earthquake divulgation article (link).
Science outreach for a seismological study published on American Association for Advancement of Science (podcast here).
Science outreach at Grenoble University radio.
Invited Talks
[invited] P. Poli, From seismic noise to signal: A novel way to study the Earth interior, Italian School of Physics, November 2016.
[invited] M., Vigny, Ruiz, S., Klein, E., del Campo, F., Rivera, E., Poli, P., Metois, C., Baez, JC., Vargas, G., Leyton, F., Madariaga, R., Fleitout, L., Detailed Analysis of the Illapel Mw 8.3, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015.
[invited] G. Prieto, P. Poli, M. Florez, S. Barrett, B. Froment, Regional and Teleseismic Constraints on Intermediate-Depth and Deep focus Earthquake Mechanisms, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014.
[invited] P. Poli, P. Boué, M. Campillo, Questioning inner core with seismic noise correlation, EGU Meeting, 2015 Vienna
[invited] Briand, X., Campillo, M., Brenguier, F., Boue, P. Poli, P., Roux, P., & Takeda, T. (2013, December). Processing of terabytes of data for seismic noise analysis with the Python codes of the Whisper Suite. AGU Fall Abstracts, Vol. 1, 2013.
[invited] Boue, P, P. Poli, et al. Global scale body waves retrieval from ambient seismic noise correlation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 1. 2013.
List of Publications
Submitted papers:
Reawakening of large earthquakes in South-Central Chile: The 2016 Chiloé Mw7.6 event S. Ruiz, M. Moreno, D. Melnick, F. del Campo, P. Poli, J.C. Baez, F. Leyton, R. Madariaga, submitted GRL.
Mapping the rheology of the Central Chile subduction zone with aftershocks, W. Frank, P. Poli, H. Perfettini, submitted GRL.
Journal Publications: Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle Germán A. Prieto, Bérénice Froment, Chunquan Yu, Piero Poli, and Rachel Abercrombie. Science Advances, 3 (3), e1602642. (2017).
Dynamic inversion of the 2015 Jujuy earthquake and similarity with other intraslab events Carlos Herrera Sergio Ruiz Raul Madariaga Piero Poli Geophys J Int ggx056. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx056 (2017).
The Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake (Chile): pre- and post- seismic activity associated with hydrated slab structures, Poli, P., Maksymowicz, A. Ruiz, S., Geology, G38522. 1 (2017).
The Seismic Sequence of the 16 September 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel, Chile, Earthquake. Ruiz, S., Klein, E., del Campo, F., Rivera, E., Poli, P., Metois, M., & Madariaga, R. Seismological Research Letters. Vol. 87.5 (2016).
Complex rupture of the M6. 3 March 10, 2015 Bucaramanga earthquake: evidence of strong weakening process. Poli, P., Prieto, G. A., Yu, C. Q., Florez, M., Agurto-Detzel, H., Mikesell, T. D., & Pedraza, P. Geophysical Journal International, ggw065. Vol. 205.2, pp. 988-994 (2016).
Earthquakes initiation and thermal shear instability in the Hindu Kush intermediate depth nest. Poli, P., Prieto, G., Rivera, E., & Ruiz, S. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 43.4, pp. 1537-1542 (2016).
Deep Characterization of the Santiago Basin using HVSR and Cross-correlation of Ambient Seismic Noise. C Pastén, M Sáez, S Ruiz, F Leyton, J Salomón & P Poli. Engineering Geology. Vol. 201, pp. 57-66 (2015)
Imaging the D" reflector with noise correlations P Poli, C. Thomas, M. Campillo, H. Pedersen Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2014GL062198 Vol. 42.1, pp. 60-65 (2015)
Global and along-strike variations of source duration and scaling for intermediate-depth and deep focus earthquakes P Poli, G. Prieto Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2014GL061916 Vol. 41.23, pp. 8315-8324 (2015)
Reverberations, coda waves and ambient noise: Correlations at the global scale and retrieval of the deep phases P Boué, P Poli, M Campillo, P Roux Earth and Planetary Science Letters 391, 137-145 (2014)
Teleseismic correlations of ambient seismic noise for deep global imaging of the Earth P Boué, P Poli, M Campillo, H Pedersen, X Briand, P Roux Geophysical Journal International, ggt160, Vol. 194.2, pp. 844-848 (2013)
Body-wave imaging of earth’s mantle discontinuities from ambient seismic noise P Poli, M Campillo, H Pedersen Science 338 (6110), 1063-1065 (2012)
Noise directivity and group velocity tomography in a region with small velocity contrasts: the northern Baltic shield P Poli, HA Pedersen, M Campillo Geophysical Journal International, 192.1, pp. 413-424 (2012)
Emergence of body waves from cross-correlation of short period seismic noise P Poli, HA Pedersen, M Campillo Geophysical Journal International 188 (2), 549-558 (2012)
