EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
M.Sc. in Geological Sciences, University of Calabria, summa cum laude, 17 May 2002.
Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, University of Basilicata, February 2006.
2007-2009 Research assistantships, in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography (Dept of Geological Sciences, University of Basilicata, Italy).
2009-2015 Research assistantships, in Geology, Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Petrology Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Italy.
2007-2010 Researcher in a non-permanent position, University of Basilicata.
2010-2011 Researcher in a non-permanent position, National Research Council (CNR) of Cosenza.
2012-2014 Researcher in a non-permanent position, University of Calabria.
2004-2014 Several contracts as tutor and teaching activities regarding the Earth Sciences.
2012-2016 Contract Professor of ‘Didactics of Earth Sciences’ and ‘Laboratory of Education and Environment’, University of Calabria.
Nowadays he collaborates with CNR-IRPI (National Research Council) at Cosenza (Italy).
2013 - Obtained the national scientific qualification as Associate Professor for the competition sector 04/A2.
2018 - Obtained the national scientific qualification as Full Professor for the competition sector 04/A2.
2015-2018 Tenure-track Researcher (B-type), Dept of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria
2018-nowaday Associate Professor in Geology, Dept of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria
HONORS
Winner of ‘Luigi dell’Anna’ 2009 Award sponsored by the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio delle Argille (AISA).
Winner of ‘Giorgio Dal Piaz’ 2012 Award sponsored by the Società Geologica Italiana (SGI).
Was appointed in 2013 of Matter Expert for SSD GEO/02, Dept. of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria.
Reviewer Certificate by Basin Research (Wiley) for reviewing activity in 2016, which is very much appreciated by the Editors and Editorial Board of the journal. (Motivation: We depend on the efforts and integrity of our reviewers to examine each submitted manuscript and render an opinion as to its suitability for publication).
Certificate of Recognition by ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications Awards for ACS publications reviewing activity in 2015. (Motivation: Thank you for your valued contributions as an ACS Publications reviewer. You have helped advance scientific excellence and made ACS Publications the most trusted, most cited, and most read publisher).
Reviewer of national journals (Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana) and international journals (Italian Journal of Geosciences; Sedimentary Geology; Geological Magazine; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Marine and Petroleum Geology; International Geology Review; Geochemical Journal; Applied Clay Sciences; Catena; Natural Hazards; Environmental Earth Sciences; Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering; Engineering Geology; Energy & Fuels; Geoenvironmental Disasters; Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering; Science of the Total Environment; Arabian Journal of Geosciences; Ore Geology Reviews; Basin Research; Chemical Geology; Geology; Global and Planetary Change; Land Degradation & Development; GSA Bulletin).
PARTECIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP
Research Project PRIN 2001 (Prot. 2001045835_002): partner of the Cosenza Unit of the project "Age and features of Verrucano type deposits from northern Apennines to Betic Cordilleras: constraints for the paleogeographic and structural evolution of the Alpin Chains of the western Mediterranean area.
Research Project PRIN 2006 (Prot. 2006048397_001): partner of the Potenza Unit of the project "The clastic Cenozoic sedimentation of the circum-Mediterranean Chains: constraints for the paleogeographic and paleotectonic evolution".
Research Project OGS-Explora WGDT2005 (“Morphology and Architecture of the Western Portions of the Gulf of Taranto: a Study of Submarine Instability in a Tectonically Active Margin”), University of Calabria, 2005.
Research Project POR Calabria 2000-2006, National Research Council (CNR-IRPI) of Cosenza.
Research Project PRIN 2010 (Prot. 2009PBA7FL_001), University of Calabria.
PON Research Project (PON R&C 2007-2013), University of Calabria.
Research Project SIGIEC (“Sistema di Gestione Integrato per l’Erosione Costiera” - Cod. PON01_02651), University of Calabria, 2015.
Research Project SMORI (“Smart Monitoring per il controllo di bacini ad elevato Rischio Idrogeologico” - POR Calabria 2014-2020), University of Calabria.
Organization of several National Congresses (SIMP 2002 and SGI 2012) and Workshop (on ‘Quantitative models in sediment generation’, 2010).
Field trip in Spain-Morocco October 2003 (Rif Chain, Northern Morocco and Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain).
Field Trip for the Integrated Petroleum Geosciences Course (IPGC - Enicorporate University, Eni E&P and Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra-Università degli Studi di Perugia), Cilento National Park (Campania, Italy), 25-29 April 2010.
Geological campaign in Greece (sedimentary covers of Pelagonian Zone, Internal Hellenides), 7-13 July 2010.
Scientific collaboration with University AbdelMalek Essaadi (Department of Science and Techniques, Tanger – Morocco), University of Alicante (Environment and Earth Sciences Department, Alicante - Spain), University of Granada (Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Granada - Spain), University of Göttingen (Dept. of Sedimentology & Environmental Geology, Georg-August-Universität - Germany), Waseda University (Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Japan), University of Madrid (Dpto. de Petrología y Geoquímica, Facultad de CC. Geológicas, Madrid, Spain).
Collaboration to National Council of Research (CNR-IRPI – Cosenza) about relationship between chemical and mineralogical composition and mechanical properties of fine grained sediments, and weathering processes of crystalline rocks.
Convener of the TS1.5 session (Exhumation and burial processes within the Circum-Mediterranean orogenic belts: from mantle to surface) – 86th National Congress of the Italian Geological Society, 18-20 September 2012 (University of Calabria, Italy).
Guest Editor of the Special Issue “The Role of Water-Rock Interaction Processes in Soil Formation: Geochemical, Mineralogical, Geomorphological, and Engineering-Geological Aspects” (Geofuids – Wiley, Hindawi), 2017-2019.
Organization of 82th National Congress of the Italian Mineralogical and Petrological Society, 18-20 September 2002 (University of Calabria, Italy).
Organization of 86th National Congress of the Italian Geological Society, 18-20 September 2012 (University of Calabria, Italy).
Member of several scientific societies: Associazione Italiana per la Geologia del Sedimentario-GEOSED (2003-2005); Geochemical Society (2004-2005); International Association of Sedimentologists-IAS (2009-2010); Associazione Italiana per lo Studio delle Argille-AISA (from 2007); Società Geologica Italiana-SGI (from 2009).
PARTECIPATION AT CONGRESS AND COURSES
82nd SIMP Congress – “L’arco Calabro Peloritano ed il Tirreno meridionale - vent’anni dopo”. Arcavacata di Rende (CS), 18-20 September 2002.
1st National Congress of Italian Association of Sedimentary Geology (GeoSed2003); Alghero, 28 September-2 October 2003.
International Congress of Gechemistry: GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE 2004, PROCESSES IN GEOCHEMISTRY (Forces, Fluxes and Structure) – Copenaghen, Denmark; June 5-11, 2004.
32nd INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS – Florence (Italy), August 20-28, 2004.
2nd National Congress of Italian Association of Sedimentary Geology (GeoSed2004); Rome, 22-28 September 2004.
FIST (Federazione Italiana Scienze della Terra) National Congress, Geoitalia 2005 – Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto, 21-23 September 2005.
Clay Day 2007 “LE ARGILLE NELLE PROBLEMATICHE GEODINAMICHE” (in collaboration with Associazione Italiana per lo Studio delle Argille (AISA) onlus, italian section of AIPEA) – Dept. of Geological Sciences – University of “Roma Tre”, Rome, 20 February 2007.
Workshop in honor of Piera Spadea, Giuseppe Cello e Lauro Morten: The evolution of Alps, Apennine and Tyrrhenian basin: contribution from petrology, geochemistry and structural geology. Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, 7-9 June 2007.
9th Formation course on X-ray Diffraction (“Diffrazione di raggi X di sedimenti argillosi: preparazione campioni, analisi qualitativa e quantitativa”). Tito Scalo (PZ), 1-4 July 2008.
84th National Congress of the Italian Geological Society – Sassari, 15-17 September 2008.
XIV International Clay Conference, ‘Micro et Nano – Scientiae Mare Magnum’; Castellaneta Marina (Ta), Italy; 14-20 June 2009.
FIST (Federazione Italiana Scienze della Terra) National Congress, Geoitalia 2009 – Rimini, 9-11 September 2009.
27th IAS Meeting (International Association of Sedimentologists) – ‘Sedimentary environments of Mediterranean Island(s)’ - Alghero, 20-23 September 2009.
1st WORKSHOP “Quantitative models in sediment generation” (WGSG – Working Group on Sediment Generation), Università della Calabria, 29.6-1.7-2010.
86th National Congress of the Italian Geological Society, 18-20 September 2012 (University of Calabria, Italy).
9th National Congresso of Young Reserchers in Applied Geology – University of Naples, Naples, 14-15 February 2013.
SGI-SIMP National Congress (87th Congress of the Italian Geological Society and 90th Congress of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology in joint form) - University of Milan, Milan, 10-12 September 2014.
88th National Congress of the Italian Geological Society - University of Naples Federico II, Naples, 7-9 September 2016.
89th National Congress (Italian Geological Society and Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology in joint form) –Catania 12-14 September 2018.
34th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology 'Sedimentology to face societal challenges on risk, resources and record of the past', 10-13 September 2019, Rome.
Formation course on proximal sensing (organized by “La città a 1 metro” entitled “Il telerilevamento da satellite e le applicazioni dell’alta risoluzione”), University of Calabria, 29 June 2004.
1st School on Petrography (‘Structures of the magmatic and metamorphic rocks’) – Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Messina – 5-11 May 2003.
Workshop on: THE RECORD OF THERMAL HISTORY IN SEDIMETARY SUCCESSIONS: SHORTH COURSE ON METHODS and EXAMPLES FROM THE ITALIAN REGION - Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia 5-6 June 2003.
THE RECORD OF THERMAL HISTORY IN SEDIMETARY SUCCESSIONS – 2nd Short Course and Workshop (Short course on Methods and Case histories and Workshop on Examples from the Mediterranean area) - Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of “Roma Tre”, Rome 21-23 June 2005.
INVITED TALKS
Case history entitled “Chemistry and mineralogy of mesozoic continental redbed mudrocks from the Calabrian Arc, southern Italy: implication for provenance, paleoweathering and burial history” in 2nd Short Course and Workshop “THE RECORD OF THERMAL HISTORY IN SEDIMETARY SUCCESSIONS” - Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche – Università “Roma Tre”, Rome 22 June 2005.
Case histories entitled “Geochemistry and mineralogy of the Middle Triassic-Lower Jurassic mudrock redbeds, Western-Central Mediterranean Alpine Chains: constraints on provenance, source-area weathering and recycling” in Clay Day 2007 “LE ARGILLE NELLE PROBLEMATICHE GEODINAMICHE” - Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche – Università “Roma Tre”, Rome 20 February 2007.
AREAS OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION
Sedimentary geochemistry, clay mineralogy, sedimentology, provenance and diagenesis of clastic sediments, palaeogeographic, palaeotectonic and paleoclimatic reconstructions; weathering processes of crystalline rocks; thermal and burial history of sedimentary basins, interplay of tectonics, erosion and sedimentation, regional geology.
MAIN FIELD AREAS
Southern and Central Italy; Spain; Morocco; Greece; Czech Republic.
EDITORS
Critelli S., Muto F., Perri F., Petti F.M., Sonnino M., Zuccari A. (2012) - 86° Congresso della Società Geologica Italiana. Note Brevi e Riassunti. Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 21; pp. 1339, ISSN: 2035-8008
Ietto F., Perri F., Apollaro C., Critelli S., Calcaterra D. (2016) - Convegno "La geologia dell'Italia meridionale: un convegno in memoria di Antonino Ietto", tenutosi l’11 dicembre 2015 a Cosenza. Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 38; pp. 112, ISSN 2035-8008
Apollaro C., Perri F., Borrelli L., Caloiero T. (2019) - Special Issue on “The Role of Water-Rock Interaction Processes in Soil Formation: Geochemical, Mineralogical, Geomorphological, and Engineering-Geological Aspects”. Geofluids, Wiley-Hindawi. Article ID 8453136, 4 pages. DOI 10.1155/2019/8453136. The most recent Impact Factor for Geofluids is 2.540 according to the 2017 Journal Citation Reports.
Associate Editor in Frontiers in Earth Science. Impact Factor 3.498, CiteScore 3.3
GEOLOGICAL MAP AND GEOLOGICAL FIELD TRIPS
Bonardi G., Caggianelli A., Critelli S., Messina A., Perrone V., Acquafredda P., Carbone G., Careri G., Cirrincione R., D’Errico M., Dominici R., Festa V., Iannace A., Macaione E., Mazzoli S., Notaro P., Parente M., Perri F., Piluso E., Somma R., Sonnino M., Vitale S. (2004) – Geotraverse across the Calabria-Peloritani terrane (Southern Italy). In Guerrieri L., Rischia I. & Serva L. (Eds) Field Trip Guidebooks P66, 32° International Geological Congress, Florence (Italy) 20-28 August 2004, vol. 6, APAT. Mem. Descr. Carta geologica d’Italia, 63 (6), 1-60.
Critelli S., Muto F., Perri F., Caracciolo L. (2008) - The fold and thrust system of northern Calabria: an example from the “Cariati Nappe”. Guida per l’escursione relative alla Calabria Summer School 2008 “A multidisciplinary study of uplift and deformation in the Calabrian Arc”; Università della Calabria, 9-10 settembre 2008.
Critelli S., Muto F., Dominici R., Caracciolo L., Perri F., Tripodi V. (2010) - Southern Apennines Turbidites, Italy: Deep-marine siliciclastic and carbonate turbidites of the Cilento Group, Southern Apennines Foreland Basin System. Field Trip for the Integrated Petroleum Geosciences Course (IPGC - Enicorporate University, Eni E&P and Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra-Università degli Studi di Perugia), Cilento National Park (Campania, Italy), 25-29 April 2010, pp. 68.
Muto F., Critelli S., Robustelli G., Tripodi V., Zecchin M., Perri F. (2015) – A Neogene-Quaternary Geotraverse within the northern Calabrian Arc from the foreland peri-Ionian margin to the backarc Tyrrhenian margin. 86° Congresso Nazionale della Società Geologica Italiana – Cosenza, 2012.
Critelli S., Muto F., Perri E., Perri F., Tripodi V., Guido A., Borrelli M., Arcuri N., Zecchin M., Caffau M., Gindre-Chanu L. (2019) - The interplay between tectonics, salt tectonics and sedimenta. Field Trips - GUIDE BOOK (M. Vigliotti, M. Tropeano, V. Pascucci, D. Ruberti, L. Sabato Eds), p. 129-144. IAS 2019 – 34th IAS MEETING OF SEDIMENTOLOGY, ROME – ITALY September 10th-13th 2019. ISBN: 978-88-944576-0-5
Note Illustrative della CARTA GEOLOGICA D’ITALIA alla scala 1:50.000 FOGLIO 601 (Foglio Geologico Messina-Reggio Calabria) - Caratteri minero-petrografici delle unità deposizionali (S. Critelli, M. Barone, R. Dominici, F. Perri) – analisi relative alla parte marina. Coordinatore scientifico: F.L. Chiocci. (in press)
