CURRICULUM VITAE Paolo Pace, Ph.D.

Personal information Name and Title: Paolo Pace, Ph.D. Age: 28 Place and Date of Birth: Guardiagrele (CH) Italy, 6 th January 1987 Citizenship: Italian Tax Code: PCA PLA 87 A06 E243J Linkedin profile: it.linkedin.com/pub/paolo-pace/25/862/991/ CURRICULUM VITAE Paolo Pace, Ph.D. Address: Via Gissi 4 66100 - Chieti Scalo (CH) Italy Phone: (+39) 349 0825427 (mobile) (+39) 0871 869782 (home) e-mail: paol.pace@gmail.com Experience July-August 2015: Exploration Geoscientist (Internship) at GEPlan Consulting Petroleum Geosciences, Ferrara (Italy) Regional seismic interpretation of 2D seismic proprietary data over the High and Low Fold Belts in the Kurdistan Region (NE Iraq) Academic experience March-July 2014: Visiting PhD at the Geology and Petroleum Geology Department, University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK) Training in stratigraphic and structural interpretation of seismic data. Seismic interpretation and structural modelling in the Italian Adriatic Sea. Supervisors: Prof. R.W.H. Butler & Dr. D. Iacopini January 2014: Honorary Fellow in Structural Geology and Geomechanics and Geology 2 modules at G. d Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara; June-July 2011: Research Assistant Reactivation of transversal tectonic elements in the Apennine chain, in the Adriatic foreland and in the Morocco Atlas within the project founded by the PRIN 2008 grant awarded to Prof. F. Calamita, G. d Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara; September 2009 and June 2010: Tutor activity grants in Structural Geology and Field Geological Mapping modules at G. d Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Education January 2012-December 2014: Ph.D. (Doctor Europaeus) in Geology and Evolution of the Lithosphere at G. d Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) Majors: Structural Geology, Seismic Interpretation External reviewers: Prof. Dr. F. Roure (IFPEN), Prof. Dr. R.W.H. Butler (University of Aberdeen) Dissertation: Styles and tectonic significance of inversion structures within thrust belt-foreland systems: an Apennine-Adriatic perspective, central Italy Adriatic seismic data courtesy of Spectrum Geo Ltd. 1

April 2011: Post-Graduate Degree (M.Sc.) in Geological Sciences, Structural Geology and Geodynamics of the Earth and the Planets at G. d Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Academic years: 2008-2010 Dissertation: Structures and fault systems associations along the Sangro-Volturno lineament (Central-Southern Apennines) and in the Mid-Adriatic Ridge Thesis Supervisors: Prof. F. Calamita and Dr. V. Scisciani Final Mark: 110/110 cum laude January-May 2010: Exchange student fellowship within the LLP Erasmus at University College of London (UCL), London, UK. GEOL2027 Structural Geology and Tectonics; GEOL1012 Surface Processes GEOL3011 Geosciences Report: The Cretaceous sequences of the Subbetic zone (Betic Cordillera, Spain): description and correlation with the Umbria Marche succession (Central Apennines, Italy). Collaboration with Prof. G. Roberts (Birkbeck University) on active normal faulting in the Central Apennines. October 2008: Under-Graduate Degree (B.Sc.) in Geological Sciences at G. d Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Academic years: 2005-2008 Dissertation: Geological and structural analysis in the northern sector of the Sangro-Volturno Line (Abruzzo-Molise Apennines, Central Italy) Thesis Supervisors: Prof. F. Calamita and Dr. V. Scisciani Final Mark: 110/110 cum laude Activities and courses May-June 2015: MOOC Oil & Gas Achievement Certificate IFP School-Total; 18 February 2015: Central-Southern Italy Petroleum systems by L. Lipparini at University of Chieti; 10-12 June 2014: Basin evolution, depositional systems and petroleum systems in the Central Mediterranean short-course by R. Maniscalco at University of Aberdeen; 5 June 2014: GeoTeric presentation and support session by S. Devlin at University of Aberdeen and Volcanics and the Petroleum System by N. Schofield at ffa Knowledge Share Evening, Aberdeen; 22-24 September 2014: Intraplate Tectonics and Sedimentary Basin Dynamics: Mild Inversion to Intraplate Orogenesis by Prof. Rendall Stephenson at University of Sannio; 9 September 2014: Subsurface Geological Data integration in the E&P workflow ENI E&P; 17-19 March 2014: Structural-stratigraphic interpretation of seismic data in sedimentary basins shortcourse by Prof. R.W.H. Butler at University of Catania; 24-26 September 2012: Formation and deformation of sedimentary basins: From structural interpretation of seismic profiles to integrated forward kinematic and thermal basin modelling shortcourse by Prof. F. Roure, at University of Roma TRE; 29 June 2012: Contributing leader at the field trip The petroleum system of the Central Apennines: field examples organized by F. Calamita, V. Scisciani and P. Pace for Weatherford International; 15-17 May 2012: Continental Tectonics short-course by Prof. L. Jolivet, at University of Roma TRE; 12-16 September 2011: Seismic Structures: Interpretation and 2D/3D Model Building and Validation course by Dr. Claudio Turrini consultant, at University of Pavia; 18-20 May 2011: Deformation of the Continental Lithosphere short-course by Prof. J.P. Brun, at University of Roma TRE. Invited seminars Styles of compressional deformation and inversion tectonics within foreland fold-and-thrust belts: Examples from the Apennines of Italy University of Aberdeen (13 May 2014) Seismic Expression of Strutures G. d Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara (27 May 2013) 2

Professional skills and expertise - Seismic Interpretation with Kingdom Suite (very good knowledge) and Petrel (basics); - Structural model building and validation with 2D/3D Move - Midland Valley (very good knowledge) - Digital Mapping with ArcGIS and Surfer (very good knowledge); - Raster to SEGY seismic digital conversion with Image2segy (CSIC) - Field geological-structural mapping and analysis, cross-section balancing and restoration Field-work experience - Italy: Northern, Central and Southern Apennines, Elba Island, Dolomites - United Kingdom: Cornwall, North Norfolk coast; NW Highlands of Scotland - North Africa: Morocco High Atlas and Anti-Atlas - Spain: Lanzarote, Canary Islands Scholarships - 2012-2014: Ph.D. Scholarship at G. d Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara - 2014: EAGE Travel Grant for participating at the 76th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2012 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - 2013: ENI-SGI Scholarship for participating at the FIST Geoitalia Conference 2013 (Pisa, Italy); - 2012: EAGE Travel Grant for participating at the 74th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2012 (Copenhagen, Denmark) - 2010: Lifelong Learning Programme Erasmus Scholarship at UCL (London, United Kingdom) Languages Italian (native language) English (very good knowledge, fluent): B1 Level Certificate: Ud A for your English course Erasmus Intensive Language Course French (basic knowledge) IT expertise Professional knowledge of: Windows OS, Microsoft Office, Suite Grafica CorelDraw, Internet browsing Social Skills and Hobbies Ability to work in group and to relate with every sort of people from different cultures and ages. Capacity in listening, good interpersonal skills and communication. Skills acquired within the role of children educator for the Italian Catholic Action and the charity work for the Italian Caritas association and in assisting people with disabilities drug-addicted people in dedicated rehabilitation centers. Hobbies: running, martial arts (I Dan Karate black belt), ski alp, fishing, guitar player Driving License B Professional associations Italian Group of Structural Geology (GIGS) Italian Geological Society (SGI) European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB) Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Geological Society of America (GSA) Geological Society of London (GSL) American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) The undersigned Paolo Pace declares to know the rights of the Legislative Decree 196/2003 and consents the use of his personal data in this document. 3

Scientific Publications Scopus h-index: 5 Publications in international peer-reviewed journals 1- Pace P. & Calamita F. 2015. Coalescence of fault-bend and fault-propagation folding in curved thrust systems: an insight from the Central Apennines, Italy. Terra Nova, 27, 175-183, doi: 10.1111/ter.12146. 2- Pace P., Di Domenica, A. & Calamita F. 2014. Summit Low-Angle Faults in the Central Apennines of Italy: younger-on-older thrusts or rotated normal faults? Constraints for defining the tectonic style of thrust belts. Tectonics, 33, doi:10.1002/2013tc003385. 3- Pace P. & Calamita F. 2014. Push-up inversion structures vs. fault-bend reactivation anticlines along oblique thrust ramps: examples from the Apennines fold-and-thrust belt (Italy). Journal of the Geological Society, 171, 227-238, doi: 10.1144/jgs2013-053. 4- Scisciani V., Agostini S., Calamita F., Pace P., Cilli A., Giori I. & Paltrinieri W. 2014. Positive inversion tectonics in foreland fold-and-thrust belts: A reappraisal of the Umbria Marche Northern Apennines (Central Italy) by integrating geological and geophysical data. Tectonophysics, 637, 218-237 doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2014.10.010. 5- Satolli S., Pace P., Viandante M.G., Calamita F. 2014. Lateral variations in tectonic style across crossstrike discontinuities: an example from the Central Apennines belt (Italy). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103, 2301-2313, doi: 10.1007/s00531-014-1052-3. 6- Calamita F., Pace P. & Satolli S. 2012. Coexistence of fault-propagation and fault-bend folding in curveshaped foreland fold-and-thrust belts: examples from the Northern Apennines (Italy). Terra Nova, 24(5), 396-406, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2012.01079.x. 7- Calamita F., Satolli S., Scisciani V., Esestime P. & Pace P. 2011. Contrasting styles of fault reactivation in curved orogenic belts: Examples from the Central Apennines (Italy). GSA Bulletin, 123(5/6), 1097 1111. doi: 10.1130/B30276.1. Extended abstracts and conference proceedings of national and international conferences with oral and poster presentations 1- Pace P., Scisciani V., Butler R.W.H., Iacopini D., Hodgson N., Esestime P. & Calamita, F. 2015. Seismic expression of positive inversion structures within a foreland domain: insights from the Central Adriatic Sea (Italy). TSG Annual Meeting, Edinburgh. 2- Pace P., Pasqui V. Tavarnelli E. and Calamita, F. 2015. Inferring foreland-directed gravitational collapse from analysis of composite shear fabrics along regional thrust faults: a case from the Umbria-Marche Apennines, Italy. TSG Annual Meeting, Edinburgh. 3- Pace P., Scisciani V., Margiotta D., Calamita F., Rowlands D., Hodgson N., & Esestime P. 2014. Inversion Structures in a Foreland Area Seismic example from the Adriatic Sea-Italy. 76th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, doi:10.3997/2214-4609.20141663 4- Pace P. & Calamita F. 2014. Geometric characteristics of positive inversion structures within the Apennines carbonate foreland fold-and-thrust belt. AAPG Regional European Conference, Naples, Italy. 5- Calamita F., Pace P. & Tavarnelli E. 2013. Modes and timing of deformation along an oblique thrust ramp: constraints from a thrust shear zone (Central-Northern Apennines, Italy). IX FIST Geoitalia 2013, 5, 139-140. 6- Pace P., Di Domenica A. & Calamita F. 2013. Low-angle pre-thrusting normal faults rotated within the forelimbs of thrust-related anticlines: implications for unravelling the tectonic style of the Central Apennine chain (Italy). IX FIST Geoitalia 2013, 5, 148. 7- Pace P. & Calamita F. 2013. Geometries of inversion structures along regional oblique thrust ramps: structures from the Apennines foreland fold-and-thrust belt. IX FIST, Geoitalia 2013, 5, 148. 8- Pace P. & Calamita F. 2013. Thrust-related Folds within Inversion Tectonics Dominated Areas - Structures from the Apennines Thrust Belt (Italy). 75th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, London, United Kingdom, doi: 10.3997/2214-4609.20131135. 4

9- Scisciani V., Pace P., Margiotta D., Calamita F., Rowlands D., Esestime P., Hodgson N. & Scaife G., 2013. Inspiring new prospectivity in the Italian Adriatic Sea. AAPG European Regional Conference, Barcelona, Spain. 10- Pace P., Satolli S. & Calamita F. 2012. The control of mechanical stratigraphy and inversion tectonics on thrust-related folding along the curved Northern Apennines thrust front. Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., 22, 162-165. 11- Pace P., Satolli S. & Calamita F. 2012. Along-strike variation of fault-related folding in a curve-shaped foreland fold-and-thrust belt: a case from the Northern Apennines. Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., 21, 44-46. 12- Pace P., Scisciani V., Calamita F. & Paltrinieri W. 2012. Positive flower structures as reactivated normal faults along oblique thrust ramps: examples from the Apulian structures, Central-Southern Apennines. Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., 21, 47-49. 13- Pace P., Scisciani V. & Calamita F. 2012. Structural inheritance in two circum-mediterranean fold-andthrust belts: Preliminary results from a comparison. Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., 21, 50-52. 14- Pace P., Calamita F. & Scisciani V. 2012. Inversion Structures along Oblique Lineaments in the Apennine. 74th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, Copenhagen, Denmark. 15- Satolli S., Scisciani V., Esestime P., Pace P. & Calamita F. 2011. Different styles of fault reactivation in the Central Apennines. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 13, EGU2011-11219, EGU General Assembly. 16- Pace P., Scisciani V. & Calamita F. 2011. Transversal tectonic lineaments in the Central-Southern Apennines and in the Adriatic foreland (Mid-Adriatic ridge). VIII FIST Geoitalia 2011, 4. 17- Pace P., Scisciani V. & Calamita F. 2011. Styles of Plio-Quaternary Positive Inversion Tectonics in the Central-Southern Apennines and in the Adriatic Foreland. Rend. online Soc. Geol. It., 15, 88-91. 18- Scisciani V., Agostini S., Calamita F., Cilli A., Giori I., Pace P. & Paltrinieri W. 2010. The Neogene positive inversion of late Paleozoic-Triassic basins in the structural evolution of the Umbria-Marche carbonate mountain ridge (northern Apennines). Rend. online Soc. Geol. It., 11, 350-351. 19- Scisciani V., Agostini S., Calamita F., Cilli A., Giori I., Pace P. & Paltrinieri W. 2010. The influence of preexisting extensional structures on the Neogene evolution of the Northern Apennines foreland foldand-thrust belt. Rend. online Soc. Geol. It., 10, 125-128. 20- Calamita F., Esestime P., Pace P., Satolli S. & Scisciani V. 2009. Short-cut anticlines VS. full inversion anticlines in the salient structures of the Central-Southern Apennines. VII FIST Geoitalia 2009, 3, 410. 21- Calamita F., Esestime P., Pace P., Scisciani V. & Verna F. (2009) Transversal structures of the Central- Southern Apennines: The Sangro-Volturno Line. VII FIST Geoitalia 2009, 3, 181. 22- Calamita F., Esestime P., Pace P., Paltrinieri W., Scisciani V. & Tavarnelli E. 2009. The Pliocene- Quaternary salient structures of the Central and Southern Apennine chain inherited from prethrusting normal faults. Rend. online Soc. Geol. It., 5, 51-54. References Prof. Fernando Calamita, calamita@unich.it (PhD, MSc, BSc Supervisor) Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Geologia, University G. d Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Dr. D. Iacopini, d.iacopini@abdn.ac.uk Geology and Petroleum Geology Department, University of Aberdeen, UK Prof. Robert W. H. Butler, rob.butler@abdn.ac.uk Geology and Petroleum Geology Department, University of Aberdeen, UK Prof. Enrico Tavarnelli, enrico.tavarnelli@unisi.it Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell ambiente, University of Siena, Italy Prof. Gerarld Roberts, gerald.roberts@ucl.ac.uk Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Prof. Michael A. Kaminski, m.kaminski@ucl.ac.uk Department of Earth Sciences, University College of London, UK Dr. Paolo Esestime, Paolo.Esestime@spectrumasa.com Spectrum Geo Ltd, London, UK 5