Curriculum vitae of Matteo Spada (May 2010) Personal Information Name Matteo Spada Date of birth 26 September 1980 Citizen Marital status Vipiteno/Sterzing Bolzano/Bozen Married, 1 child My Picture Residence Via Roma/Romstrasse, 3 39045 Fortezza/Franzensfeste Bolzano/Bozen Address Zwinglistrasse, 33 8004 Zurich Switzerland Office ETH Zurich Institute of Geophysics Swiss Seismological Service NO H 35 Sonneggstrasse, 5 8092 Zürich Switzerland Phone office +41 44 633 72 82 Fax office +41 44 633 10 65 Phone Swiss +41 76 208 59 15 Phone +39 339 1673572 E-mail matteo.spada@sed.ethz.ch
Education and Skills PhD. Studies from November 2006 PhD. Position, Project: Physics- and tectonics-based seismic zonation models for the alpine region main supervisor: Prof. S.Wiemer co-supervisor: Prof. E.Kissling ETH Zurich Swiss Seismological Service Zurich, Switzerland University 1999 2005 Degree on Physics, Thesis: Analisi dei segnali di stazioni sismiche:applicazioni per la determinazione della soglia di detezione della rete sismica italiana,july 2005 main supervisor: Prof. E. Boschi co-supervisor: Dr. M. Cattaneo Univerity of Bologna Bologna, Scoring: 106/110 Practical experiences related to geophysics GPS network installing and data analysis. Localization of local earthquakes using data from a temporary seismic network. Reflection field experiments. High School 1994 1999 Maturità Tecnica, Istituto Tecnico Aeronautico F.Baracca, Forlí Informatics Programming Fortran, C++, Perl, Matlab Bash Programming, Awk, Sed, Latex basic knowledge on Java and HTML GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, OSX) Microsoft (all most common applications) Seismological Software Other Software TDMT INVC (Time Domain Moment Tensor INVerse Code) SAC (Seismic Analisys Code) ZMAP (Tools for statistical seismology analysis) Passcal (Tools for Reftek stations data analysis) Maya basic knowledge on Cinema4D and 3dStudioMax Languages Italian Native language English Well spoken and written German Sufficient spoken and written
Professional Experiences and Interest Employments 06/2008 Seismic noise field course teacher at the summer semester of the ETH Zurich 09/2007 Geothermic field course teacher at the autumn semester of the ETH Zurich 09/2005 10/2006 At INGV, Rome: DPC INGV S4 (Shakemap) Project 1. velocity models and Green functions computation for shallow structures for the Italian region, using genetic algorithm inversion and cross correlation of seismic noise; 2. computation of H/V ratio for Italian seismic stations. 11/2004 01/2005 At INGV, Rome Development of automatic procedures of noise level analysis applied to the italian seismic network. Summer 1998 Air traffic control stage (4 weeks) Aerodromo of Boscomantico, Verona, Interests Sport (skiing, swimming, soccer, iceskating) Music (playing bassguitar) 3D graphic animation
Conferences M.Spada, M.Cattaneo, M.Demartin, Evoluzione della rete, C.N.T. Workshop, Roma,, October 2005 M. B. Sørensen, A. Babeyko, M. Spada, S. Wiemer and G. Grünthal, Tsunamigenic earthquake sources in the Mediterranean Sea and their application in probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment, 2nd TRANSFER Project Meeting, Messina,, 16-18 October 2008 M. Spada, S. Wiemer and E.Kissling, Toward a New Seismic Hazard Model for Switzerland: Characterization of Synthetic Seismicity Distributions with Spatially Fractal Properties, EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 20-24 April 2009 M. B. Sørensen, M. Spada, A. Babeyko, S. Wiemer and G. Grünthal, Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment for the Mediterranean Sea, Final TRANSFER Project Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-16 September 2009 M. Spada, S. Wiemer and E.Kissling, Characterization of synthetic seismicity distributions with spatially fractal properties, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13-18 December 2009 M. Spada, S. Wiemer and E.Kissling, Toward a New Seismic Hazard Model for Switzerland: Characterization of Synthetic Seismicity Distributions with Spatially Fractal Properties, 2nd COGEAR Meeting, Visp, Switzerland, 27-29 January 2010
Poster M.Spada, S.Wiemer, E.Kissling, A new seismic zonation model for Switzerland based on synthetic seismicity distributions with spatially fractal properties, 28th Workshop of the International School of Geophysics Statistical Seismology: Physical and Stochastic Model of Earthquake Occurrence and Forecasting, Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice,, 31 May 06 June 2007 M.Spada, S.Wiemer, E.Kissling, Towards a new PSHA for Switzerland: A Seismotectonic Model of the Alpine Region, CCES Latsis-Symposium: Research Frontiers in Environment and Sustainability, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, 17-19 September 2007 M.Spada, S.Wiemer, E.Kissling, Toward a Seismotectonic Model of the Alpine Region for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard assessment, 8th Workshop of Alpine Geological Studies, Davos, Switzerland, 10-12 October 2007 Pubblications H.Li, A.Michelini, L.Zhu, F.Bernardi, M.Spada, Crustal velocity structure in from analysis of regional seismic waveforms, BSSA, Vol. 97, Issue 6, Pages 2024-2039, December 2007