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Figure 6. J-STARS Prize Paper Award recipients Paola Vannoli, Valentina Cannelli, Marco Polcari, Daniele Melini, Sergey Samsonov, Marco

Moro, and Michele Saroli.
inversion of multiple data type (tide-gages, satellite altimetry, and GPS recordings); Analysis of the associated slip distribution and computation of the Coulomb Failure Function
(CFF) variation on a possible aftershock plane; Analysis and
development on numerical and semi-analytic algorithms for
the study of the global effects of giant earthquakes; Computation of global coseismic and postseismic deformation
through the simulation of elastic and viscoelastic response to
a seismic dislocation; Application of the Post-Widder Laplace
inversion algorithm postseismic rebound models; Comparative analysis of radon-222 time series, acquired by prototype stations located in seismically active areas, through the
development of correlation numerical algorithms.
Marco Polcari was born in Naples, Italy, in 1984. He
received the Master's degree in telecommunication engineering from the University Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 2012.
He is a Ph.D. student in geophysics at the University of
Bologna, Italy. He is currently working in SAR inteferometry fields at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Rome, Italy. His activity focuses on the
analysis of the remote sensed data processed by Differential Interferometric SAR techniques (DInSAR). In particular, his skills are in seismic and volcanic areas studying the
deformation occurred during a coseismic event and slow
displacements characterizing the interseismic phase of an
earthquake or the volcanoes temporal behavior by means
of multitemporal time series analysis.
Daniele Melini graduated in high-energy astrophysics,
and since 2000 he is a researcher at the Seismology and
Tectonophysics Department of INGV. His research interests
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are in computational geodynamics, with focus on numerical modeling of postseismic and postglacial processes and
inverse modeling of seismic sources from coseismic geodetic data. He actively participates in the development and
operation of the high-performance computing facilities
at INGV-Roma, where he heads the Computational Geophysics Laboratory. He co-authored the SELEN simulation code for the numerical solution of the Sealevel Equation, available through the Computational Infrastructure
for Geodynamics.
Sergey Samsonov received the M.S. degree in physics from the Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in
1999, and the Ph.D. degree in geophysics and environmental science from the Western University, London, ON, Canada, in 2007. He is presently a Research Scientist with the
Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada, specializing in high resolution and
high precision measurement of ground deformation with
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) caused
by earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and anthropogenic subsidence due to mining and extraction of oil/gas,
and groundwater.
Marco Moro received the laurea degree in Geology
in 1996 from the University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy,
and the Ph.D. in Geology in 2007 from the University "La
Sapienza", Rome, Italy. He joined the Istituto Nazionale di
Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in 2000 where he is currently Researcher. He was Invited Researcher at the CNRIGAG (Rome, Italy, 2004). His main research activities are
in active tectonics by means of tectonic geomorphology
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