Francesco MUTO
Professori Associati
Geologia stratigrafica e sedimentologia (GEOS-02/B)
Contacts
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra
- mutofr@unical.it
- francesco.muto@unical.it
- 0984/493544
Reception Hours
Tuesday 3:00-6:00 PM
At the end of lessons
On appointment
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20/01/2006 Ph.D. in Earth Sciences (GEO/02 Stratigraphy and Sedimentology), at Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi della Calabria.
Thesis title: Neogene to Quaternary geological evolution of the western sector of northern Calabria (Italy).
2003 – 2006 Fellowship grant at Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra at Università della Calabria working on: “Geological survey and applied geology of CARG sheets 1:50000 Crucoli, 562 Cirò, 571 Crotone e 577 Isola Capo Rizzuto”.
From 2007: researcher position at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra of Università della Calabria (GEO/02 Stratigraphy and Sedimentology).
From october 2021 Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences.
My research is centred on the geological evolution of Southern Apennine – Calabrian Arc chains; specifically it is focused on Calabrian Tertiary basin analysis and their tectono-stratigraphic setting. Other research interests involves: palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic evolution of the Alpine orogen in Southern Italy; evaporites and salt tectonics in different geotectonic settings; relationship between continental accretionary processes, volcanic activity and clastic sedimentation in orogenic systems of the circum-mediterranean regions; Neogene to Quaternary tectonic evolution of Northern and Southern Calabria. The research activity is summurized in national and international papers and congress acts.
Degree in Geological Sciences, obtained from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Calabria.
Qualification to exercise the profession of Geologist, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, 1999.
PhD in Earth Sciences (SSD Geo/02, Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Geology), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, 20/01/2006. Thesis: Neogene-Quaternary geological evolution of the western portion of Northern Calabria.
Three-year research fellow from 2003 to 2006, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Calabria. Fellowship title: "Geological Survey and Applied Geology of CARG Sheets 1: 50.000, 554 Crucoli, 562 Cirò, 571 Crotone and 577 Isola Capo Rizzuto", Scientific-Disciplinary Sectors GEO / 02 (Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Geology) and GEO/05 (Applied Geology).
Since 2007, confirmed researcher in SSD GEO/02 (Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Geology), Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria.
Teaching activity
Courses taught in: Lithology and Geology, Geology of Anthropized Systems, Geological Field and Graphic Representation, Geology, Geological Surveying, Training activity in Field Geology, Geological Modeling.
Supervisor or co-supervisor for numerous degree theses, with attention to stratigraphic, structural and geological modeling aspects, for the degree course in Geological Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences and Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST), University of Calabria, and for the degree course in Geological Sciences, Department of Earth and Geological-Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna.
Ex-member, PhD committee in Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Calabria.
Ex-member, PhD committee, "Archimede" Unical Doctoral School, Doctorate in Science, Communication and Technologies.
Member, Doctoral School (SIACE), Environmental, Construction and Energy Sciences and Engineering, University of Calabria.
Tutor and co-tutor, over 10 PhD theses in Earth Sciences.
Participation in Research Projects
2001-2005- Paleogeographic and Paleotectonic evolution of the Alpine orogenic chain in southern Italy. Research project financed by University of Calabria funding (Ex Murst 60%), Resp. Prof. Salvatore Critelli.
2005-2006- Quaternary morphostructural evolution of northern Calabria. Research project financed by University of Calabria funding (Ex Murst 60%), Resp. Prof. Gaetano Robustelli.
From 20/08/2005 to 2/09/2005, participated in the oceanographic campaign as part of the Research Project: Morphology and Architecture of the Western Portions of the Gulf of Taranto: A Study of Submarine Instability in a Tectonically Active Margin. Project in collaboration with the OGS (National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics). Project manager Prof. Salvatore Critelli.
PRIN 2006: Cenozoic clastic sedimentation of circum-Mediterranean chains: implications for paleogeographic and paleotectonic evolution. Scientific director Salvatore Critelli. Role: Research fellow.
2006-2007, Relations between continental accretion, volcanism and clastic sedimentation in the orogenetic systems of the circum-Mediterranean area. Research Project financed by University of Calabria funding (Former Murst 60%) Responsible Prof. S. Critelli.
PRIN 2009: The Thracian sedimentary basin (Eocene-Quaternary) in Greece and Bulgaria: stratigraphic-depositional architectures and sediment dispersion systems in post-orogenic basins. Scientific coordinator Prof. Salvatore Critelli. Role of writer: Researcher, member of the UNICAL research unit.
POR Calabria 2010 - Lot 1 - "Study and experimentation of methodologies and techniques for the mitigation of hydrogeological risk", lot 1 called "Development and application of methods for assessing the hazard of slope instability phenomena". The activity consisted in the geological-structural characterization of large area and area at the slope scale of sites subject to mass phenomena. As part of the same project, he is co-author of the geological-structural survey guidelines and of the geological and geomorphological model of the slopes.
2010-2012, project leader - Tectono-stratigraphic analysis and structural characterization of the Neogene-Quaternary basins of the southern Apennine-Calabrian Arc orogenic systems. Research project financed with University of Calabria budget funding (Ex Murst 60%).
2011-2014, PON LEWIS Project, "Integrated Systems for Monitoring, Early Warning and Hydrogeological Risk Mitigation along the major communication routes". National Operational Program "Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013" ASSE I Convergence Regions. As part of the project, the writer was responsible for OR1 (Objective 1, Risk scenarios; WP 1.1, Guidelines for the identification of risk) and OR 9, Scenario analysis. Member of the CTS (Scientific Technical Committee) and the CTC (Technical Coordination Committee).
VIGOR Project, scientific manager for the Convention accord between the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Calabria and the CNR-IRPI, Perugia, for the "Study of geothermal potential on a regional scale and for the detailed geological characterization of two sample areas in Calabria".
Participation in Project S1 (INGV-DPC 2014-15 convention), Project "Base-knowledge improvement for assessing the seismogenic potential of Italy." Potential land-sea seismogenic structures in the Calabrian-Ionian margin and improvement of the seismic monitoring system - Activity C: Morphostructural analysis in order to identify potential land-sea seismogenic structures in the Calabrian-Ionian margin in relation to the Pollino fault system activity.
Participation in research agreement between the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, and the ENI Oil Company entitled: Definition of the geological model and geodynamic phenomena of the Crotone Basin, Calabria. Scientific coordinator Prof. S. Critelli. From 01-08-2017 to the present day.
Associate, Institute for Research and Hydrogeological Protection IRPI-CNR (Rende), as part of the "RAMSES Railway Meteorological Security Systems" project for research into problems of rain erosion along slopes, as well as geological and hydrogeological studies of aquifer captation in territorial contexts with ongoing or quiescent gravitational phenomena.
Participation in the CARG Project for creation of Geological maps 1: 50.000 National Geological Survey of Italy:
1) Geological surveyor for Geological maps at 1: 50.000 scale: 543 (Cassano allo Ionio), 554 (Crucoli), 562 (Cirò), 590 (Taurianova), 603 (Bovalino), 615 (Mèlito di Porto Salvo).
2) Survey Director for Geological Maps: 1: 50.000: 554 (Crucoli), 562 (Cirò), 590 (Taurianova), 603 (Bovalino), 615 (Mèlito di Porto Salvo).
3) Co-author of Explanatory Notes to Geological Maps 1: 50.000: 554 (Crucoli), 562 (Cirò), 590 (Taurianova), 603 (Bovalino), 615 (Mèlito di Porto Salvo).
4) Contributor to Explanatory Notes to Geological Maps: 543 (Cassano allo Ionio), 571 (Crotone), 577 (Isola Capo Rizzuto).
5)
Organizer and leader of Geological Fieldtrips
Within field course organized by Agip Company, co-organizer of excursion: Southern Apennines Turbidites, Italy: Deep-marine siliciclastic and carbonate turbidites of the Cilento Group, Southern Apennines Foreland Basin System.
Within 1st WGSG Workshop "Quantitative models in sediment generation", Cosenza, 29.6-1-7 2010, co-author of excursion: Quantitative Provenance Analysis: From Sources to the Basin: Provenance relations, depositional architecture and fluvial discharge in an uplifted thrust-belt, northern Calabria, Italy.
Within the Calabria Summer School 2008: A multidisciplinary study of uplift and deformation in the Calabrian Arc, co-organizer and fieldtrip leader of the fieltrip: The fold and thrust system of northern Calabria: an example from the "Cariati Nappe".
86th National Congress of the Italian Geological Society - Cosenza, 2012, leader of the post-congress fieldtrip: A Neogene-Quaternary Geotraverse within the northern Calabrian Arc from the foreland peri Ionian margin to the backarc Tyrrhenian margin.
On behalf of the Oil Statoil Company, co-author of excursion: A 4-day-long Field Course on: Tectonics and sedimentation in Neogene-Quaternary sedimentary basins of central Calabria (south Italy).
On behalf of the Oil Statoil Company, co-organizer and leader of the excursion: A 3-day-long scouting field trip on: Detection of outcrop analogues to the intra-Draupne sandstone unit of the Johan Sverdrup: Neogene-Quaternary basins of Calabria (southern Italy).
Co-Organizer and Fieldtrip Leader of excursions in the context of EUGEN (European Geosciences students Network) 2013. Theme of excursion: "Fieldtrip guide to Monte Cocuzzo - geological and geomorphological aspects".
Co-organizer and co-author of the fieldtrip guide-book: “Tidal sedimentary dynamics of the Early Pleistocene Messina Strait (Calabria, southern Italy) based on its modern analogue”, Tidalites 2021 - 10th Congress of Tidal Sedimentology. Matera, Italy, 5-7 October 2021. Field Trip T1 Messina Strait.
Convener
Geoitalia (2009) - Session "Allochthonous terranes along the central Mediterranean Basin: implications on collisional alpine and post-collisional processes in the" Calabrian Terranes" (Conveners, Salvatore Critelli, Rosolino Cirrincione and Francesco Muto).
86th Congress of the Italian Geological Society (2012), Session "State of the art and perspectives of geomorphological mapping in Italy ) (Conveners: Guida D., Muto F.)
Session "Tectonics and sedimentation in the Mediterranean Region during the Neogene-Quaternay". (Conveners: Cavazza W., Cosentino D., Critelli S., Di Stefano A., Maniscalco R., Muto F.).
Within 86th Congress of the Italian Geological Society (2012), member of the Organizing Committee, of the Scientific Committee and curator of the abstract volumes of the Online Reports of the Italian Geological Society.
Member of the Organizing Committee within the "Mediterranean Meeting Monitoring, modeling, early warning of extreme events triggered by heavy rainfall University of Calabria June 26th-28th, 2014", organized by The CAMILab (University of Calabria) and the MED Group of the FRIEND project (UNESCO IHP-VIII, 2014-20).
Member of the International Scientific Board of the Open Access peer reviewed scientific publishing series "Geographies of the Anthropocene".
Member of the Italian Geological Society.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Geosciences”.
Reviewer of national and international scientific journals
Assignments
Member of the Technical-Scientific committee of the UNESCO Pollino Global Geopark.
Member of the Scientific Technical Committee of the "Aspromonte Geopark", supporting the candidacy of the Aspromonte National Park for acceptance into the "World Network of UNESCO Geoparks (March 2018).
Scientific Coordinator of the Collaboration Agreement between the Pollino National Park Authority and the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST), University of Calabria, relating to the Geological-Tourist Itinerary Project called "Path of the water".
Scientific officer for the Collaboration Agreement: "Research into sites of geological and geomorphological interest in the entire Geopark - Cozzo Vardo, Belvedere di Malvento and Pollino Line”, between the DIBEST and the Pollino National Park.
Scientific officer for the Collaboration Agreement: "Preparation of a geological guide for a geological itinerary within the UNESCO Pollino Global Geopark", between the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST), University of Calabria, and the Pollino National Park.
Scientific officer to the Convention between the Sila National Park and the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST), University of Calabria, "Identification of GEOSITES within the perimeter of the PNS and of the Valle del Crocchio GAL, part of which is of international importance, and realization of the dossier for UNESCO Global Geopark application”.
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Contacts
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra
- mutofr@unical.it
- francesco.muto@unical.it
- 0984/493544
Reception Hours
Tuesday 3:00-6:00 PM
At the end of lessons
On appointment