Fausto Guzzetti is the General Director of the Office for Technical and scientific activities for the prediction and prevention of risks, and a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He spent most of his research career at the Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) in Perugia, where he studied landslides and other hazards.
After graduating in Geology from the University of Perugia (1983), he spent a year (1985-1986) at the U.S. Geological Survey (USA) and obtained a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Bonn (2004) with a thesis on landslide hazard and risk assessment. He has been Director of the CNR Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (2009-2019) and Director general for Technical and scientific activities for risk prediction and prevention of the Italian Department of civil protection, and office of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2019-2023). He was previously President of the Natural Hazards division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) (2002-2006).
His research interests have evolved over the years from landslide mapping and documentation of landslide events, to modelling of landslide susceptibility, to a formal definition and modelling of landslide hazard and its components, to the prediction of populations of landslides in a warming climate. He has also worked on landslide risk, the human consequences of landslides and other hazards, the perception of natural hazards, and the dissemination of information on natural hazards and their consequences.
You can find more information on Fausto Guzzetti's website, as well as a full list of publications.
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