{"id":151546,"date":"2025-05-12T14:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-test.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/alfredo-mazzotti-167122-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:42:27","slug":"alfredo-mazzotti-167122-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www-test.unipi.it\/en\/abous-us\/organization\/people\/alfredo-mazzotti-167122-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfredo Mazzotti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professore Emerito &#8211; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra | Tel.: 050 2215794 &#8211; Email: alfredo.mazzotti@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"167122","unipi-persone-nome":"Alfredo","unipi-persone-cognome":"Mazzotti","unipi-persone-email":"alfredo.mazzotti@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Alfredo Mazzotti is Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Pisa where he currently leads some research projects and teaches courses at the Departments of Physics and of Earth Sciences. He also acts as the Scientific Director of the University Consortium for Geophysics, in La Spezia (Italy),an organization which promotes geophysics and its applications for energy, environment and engineering. In 2005, he contributed to launch the \"Master of Science Programme in Exploration and Applied Geophysics\", a successful study programme judging from the job placement of many past-students.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHe graduated with honors at the University of Florence in the distant 1981 with a dissertation on seismic tomography and then started his career in Geophysics at ENI- Hydrocarbon Exploration, where he worked as research geophysicist, senior research assistant and head of the Geophysical Research Department.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHis current research activities include stochastic full waveform inversion, integration of active and passive seismic data for the monitoring of industrial processes, seismic-petrophysical inversion and 2D\/3D seismic data processing.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nAlfredo Mazzotti has acted as a consultant for the European Commission, the National Research Council, the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research, and the Research Council of Norway.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHe has authored more than 170 publications between conference proceedings and peer reviewed papers and has received the EAGE Loran Eotvos Award in 1998 and again in 2006 for the best paper published in Geophysical Prospecting. He is a referee for many scientific journals.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nAlfredo is a member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), and of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). Cofounder and first president of the Italian EAEG-SEG Section.","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2215794","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"","unipi-persone-cariche":"","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=010841","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=010841&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Emerito","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp05360","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"<ul class=\"pubblicazioni-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1153940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Applications of seismic AVA inversions for petrophysical characterization of subsurface targets<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mazzotti, A.; Aleardi, M. - 2022 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1076825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Velocity model estimation by means of Full Waveform Inversion of transmitted waves: An example from a seismic profile in the geothermal areas of Southern Tuscany, Italy<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Tognarelli, A.; Stucchi, E.; Mazzotti, A. - 2020 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1040869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Use of Global-Local FWI of Seismic Land Data Acquired in a Geothermal Exploration Area<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Tognarelli, A.; Stucchi, E.; Mazzotti, A. - 2019 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1031185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comparison of object functions for the inversion of seismic data\r\nand study on the potentialities of the Wasserstein Metric<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Stracca, L.; Stucchi, E.; Mazzotti, A. - 2019 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1031115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FWI of noisy seismic land data acquired for geothermal exploration<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Tognarelli, A.; Stucchi, E.; Mazzotti, A. - 2019 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1015147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Codice Matlab per inversione AVA elastica, petrofisica e classificazione di litho-fluid facies da dati sismici a riflessione<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Salusti, Alessandro; Aleardi, Mattia; Mazzotti, Alfredo - 2019 - 5.11 Software)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1015145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Codice Matlab per inversione AVA elastica e petrofisica<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Salusti, Alessandro; Aleardi, Mattia; Mazzotti, Alfredo - 2019 - 5.11 Software)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1015143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Codice di inversione AVA-petrofisica di dati sismici a riflessione<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Salusti, Alessandro; Aleardi, Mattia; Mazzotti, Alfredo - 2019 - 5.11 Software)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1015132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transdimensional MCMC inversion of Rayleigh wave dispersion curves: Preliminary results on synthetic data.<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Aleardi, Mattia; Pierini, Silvio; Salusti, Alessandro; Mazzotti, Alfredo - 2019 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1006492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two-grid full-waveform Rayleigh-wave inversion via a genetic algorithm \u2014 Part 2: Application to two actual data sets<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Xing, Zhen; Mazzotti, Alfredo - 2019 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1006490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two-grid full-waveform Rayleigh-wave inversion via a genetic algorithm \u2014 Part 1: Method and synthetic examples<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Xing, Zhen; Mazzotti, Alfredo - 2019 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/943733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A method to attenuate genetic drift in genetic-algorithm optimizations: applications to analytic objective functions and two seismic optimization problems<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(PIERINI, SILVIO,Mattia Aleardi,Alfredo Mazzotti - 2019 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/929341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two-Grid Genetic Algorithm Full Waveform Inversion of Surface Waves: Two Actual Data Examples<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Xing, Z.; Mazzotti, A. - 2018 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/929282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A New Workflow for Surface Wave FWI Combining Genetic Algorithm and Gradient-Based Optimization Algorithms<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Xing, Z.; Rappisi, F.; Mazzotti, A. - 2018 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/924688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comparing Elastic Full-Waveform and AVA Inversions: Preliminary Results on Synthetic Data<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Tognarelli, Andrea; Aleardi, Mattia; Mazzotti, Alfredo - 2018 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-didattica":"","unipi-persone-codocenze":"<h4 class=\"mt-2\">Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli\/insegnamenti<\/h4><ul><li>Rischio Sismico (Cod. 254DD) per Laurea Magistrale in Scienze e tecnologie geologiche<\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-interessi-ricerca":"","_wpml_word_count":"15","_last_translation_edit_mode":"translation-editor","_elementor_page_assets":[]},"organizzazioni":[11517],"class_list":["post-151546","unipi_persone","type-unipi_persone","status-publish","hentry","organizzazioni-dipartimento-di-scienze-della-terra-579999-en"],"email":"alfredo.mazzotti@unipi.it","telefono":"050 2215794","content_plain":"Professore Emerito &#8211; 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