Under the auspices of the embassy of Italy, Prof. Iginio Marson, president of the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics of Italy, will hold a public lecture at the University of Luxembourg on Thursday 24 February.

OGS, the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics of Italy, began its scientific activity in Antarctica in 1988 with the first geophysical campaign performed with the research vessel OGS-Explora (picture). Since then, OGS-Explora has been involved in ten campaigns which have allowed the acquisition of about 2300 km of geophysical data. Climate change, geodynamics, mud volcanoes, and hydrate gas are the most relevant research topics addressed by OGS scientists.

Iginio Marson studied physics at the University of Padova before working as a researcher at the Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale in Trieste. He has taught at the University of Trieste since 1976 and became full professor of applied geophysics there in 1990. He was the dean of the Faculty of Engineering for several years and is currently the director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Since 2007 he is the president of the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics and the Italian delegate to the International Association of Geodesy.  His main fields of interest are absolute gravimetry, microgravimetry, gravity and magnetics, theoretical seismology, acoustic emission, and global geophysics.

When? Thursday, 24 February, 5.30 pm

Where? University of Luxembourg, Campus Kirchberg, rue Coudenhove-Kalergi, Lux.-Kirchberg, B02 Lecture Hall

More information on our lecture series "Les jeudis des sciences": https://wwwen.uni.lu/university/science_public/les_jeudis_des_sciences