Current funded projects:
- 2024-ongoing Space It up! UniPi vice-coordinator of the partnership ‘Space It Up!’ for Spoke 5 ‘Protezione del Pianeta’ funded by Italian Space Agency (ASI) to study magma motions, tectonic and geothermal processes using InSAR and other satellite techniques. UniPi Spoke 5 budget €614.34K
- 2022-2024 Sistemi di supporto decisionale alle reti territoriali per la gestione dei servizi ecosistemici . Participant to the University of Pisa project PRA_2022_101 to use satellite geodetic data and Decision Support Systems (DSS) to menage natural resources (monitoring of river water surface and subsidence due to groundwater overdraft). Budget €26.15K
- 2022-2024 Satellite geodesy and remote sensing imagery for geothermal energy exploration. PI of co-funding from the Ministry of Education and Research (MUR) for a PhD scholarship on National Operational Program (PON) “Research and Innovation” 2014-2020 – Action IV.5 “PhDs on green issues”.
Past funded projects:
2022-2024 Project ‘Extensional faulting during plate collision’. Co-I of seismic equipment loan from NERC Geophysical Equipment Facility Steering Committee (GEFSC) of eight broadband seismometers for 2-year to study seismicity in Southern Tuscany (equivalent to commercial value of £49.5K).
2021 Project ‘Satellite hyperspectral imaging for volcanoes and geothermal energy’. Co-I of funding in-kind awarded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to task hyper-spectral data acquisitions from the PRISMA satellite of the Hengill (Iceland), Dama Ali (Etiopia) and Tulu Moye (East African rift) geothermal sites.
2019-2023. Project ‘Distribution of strain and magmatism during rifting’. Local PI of PRIN Project 2017P9AT72 to understand the evolution of tectonics and magmatism during the flood basalt volcanism of central Afar (webpage). The project was funded by MIUR with a total budget €652K
2020-2022. Project ‘Crustal deformation monitoring’. PI of InSAR project for monitoring the deformation in geothermal areas in Italy, Iceland and the East African Rift, funded by ESA NoR (Network of Resources) initiative to use Geohazards Exploitation Platform (G-TEP) for InSAR processing (budget €10K)
2019-2022. Participant to CEOS Volcano Demonstrator. InSAR project supported by CEOS (Committee on Earth Observations Satellites) to monitor global volcanoes using X-band SAR data, funding-in-kind.
2018-2020. Principal-investigator of a 2-year grant by the University of Pisa PRA_2018_19 (budget €47.8K)
Principal-investigator on a 3-year grant by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to access data from the ALOS-2 satellite over Changbaishan volcano (China) at no cost (funding-in-kind)
Co-investigator on a 3-year grant by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to access data from the Cosmo-SkyMed satellite over the Pearl River Delta (China) at no cost (funding-in-kind)
Co-investigator on an internal grant by the University of ‘La Sapienza’ Roma to study the Erta Ale ridge volcanoes in Ethiopia (€1.3K)
2014-2017. ‘Rita Levi Montalcini’ individual fellowship for a 3-year grant by the Italian Ministry of University, Research and Education (MIUR) to conduct research on Ethiopian and Iceland volcanoes (€202K)
Principal Investigator on a grant by the European Space Agency (ESA) to access data from the CosmoSkyMed satellite over Changbaishan volcano (China) at no cost (funding-in-kind)
Co-investigator on a 3-year grant by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to access data from the ALOS-2 satellite over Afar at no cost (funding-in-kind)
Doctoral Student Scholarship for three years Ph. D studies in Iceland granted by The Icelandic Center for Research (RANNÍS)
Research highlights
My papers on the Alu-Dalafilla volcano (Pagli et al., Nat Geo, 2012) and on rifting in Afar and Iceland (Wright et al., Nat Geo, 2012) were covered in the Nature Geoscience Editorial ‘What lies beneath’ and in the Nature Geoscience News and Views ‘Piecing toghter rifts’.
My paper on the effect of icecap reducing and magma production in Iceland (Pagli and Sigmundsson, GRL, 2008) was covered by Nature ‘Climatic Volcanoes’, New Scientist, and Scientific American