Costanza Bonadonna

Costanza Bonadonna at the book launch (2019)

Costanza Bonadonna (born 1971 ) is an Italian volcanologist and full professor at the University of Geneva in the field of environmental sciences . In November 2019, she was one of 100 women from French-speaking Switzerland, Ticino and Franche-Comté who were portrayed in a book to serve as role models for girls.

Live and act

After attending high school in Pisa , Costanza Bonadonna first studied geology at the University of Pisa , where her father also taught. She received her doctorate ( PhD ) in volcanology at the University of Bristol in England. During the devastating eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano in the 1990s, she was on the island of Montserrat .

Since 2007, Bonadonna has been the director of the course for the assessment and management of geological and climate-related risks (CERG-C). In 2018 she was also appointed Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Geneva.

Her research focuses on the modeling of sediments from volcanic gases, the development of new methodologies for the characterization of deposits of crater ejection materials (so-called tephra or pyroclastic sediments ), and the development of probability calculations to assess the randomness of tephra deposits. She is also involved in various multidisciplinary projects related to the quantification of risks.

As Associate Editor, she publishes in the Bulletin of Volcanology, among others . From 2012 to 2019 Bonadonna was also a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH).

Research projects

• 2017 to 2020: SNSF, Modeling settling-driven gravitational instabilities from volcanic clouds
• 2018 to 2021: H2020, sub-program Integrating and opening research Infrastructures of European interest (INFRAIA 2016 to 2017), EUROVOLC: European Network of Observatories and Research Infrastructures for Volcanology
• 2018 to 2021: Horizon 2020 (H2020), sub-program Future and Emerging Technologies (FET-Open 2016 to 2017), NEWTON-g: New Tools for Terrain Gravimetry
• 2020-2024: Swiss National Science Foundation for Scientific Research ( Swiss National Science Foundation , SNSF) A new probabilistic framework for regional volcanic risk assessment Including hazards interacting at multiple temporal and spatial scales

Awards

• 2001: President's Award, Geological Society of London (UK)
• 2001: Position in the SOEST Young Investigator Program of the University of Hawaii (USA) for the period between September 2002 and August 2004
• 2004: Outstanding Recent Graduate Award (George Walker Award). International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
• 2004: Outstanding Woman in Science Award, Geological Society of America (USA)
• 2005: Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award, University of South Florida (USA)
• 2005: Research Rising Star, University of South Florida (USA)

Web links

Commons : Costanza Bonadonna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait on the website of the University of Geneva (English)
• Portrait on 100women.ch (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Costanza Bonadonna: CV Costanza Bonadonna. In: https://www.unige.ch/sciences/terre/CERG-C/files/3415/7815/1792/CV_BONADONNA-2019.pdf . University of Geneva, accessed April 30, 2020 . 
2. ↑ 100 femmes d'envergure et des milliers d'autres. In: lemanbleu.ch. November 8, 2019, accessed May 7, 2020 (French). 
3. ↑ Woman Scientist of the Month: Costanza Bonadonna (04/2020). In: epws .org. Retrieved May 6, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Elle veut prévenir les risques geologiques. In: Tribune de Genève . November 3, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020 (French).