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Dr Fausto Guzzetti

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Since October 2005, I am Professor of Hazard and Risk within the Institute for Hazards, Risk and Resilence.

From 2019 to 2023, I served as Director of Technical-Scientific Activities for Risk Prediction and Prevention at the Department of Civil Protection, Presidency of the Council of Ministers. 

Research director at the Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionalle delle Ricerche, CNR), between 2009 and 2019, I was Director (or acting Director) of the CNR Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI, Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica).

I graduated in Geology from the University of Perugia (1983) with a thesis in Structural Geology, and I earned a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Bonn (2006) with a dissertation on landslide hazard and risk assessment.