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RESEARCH ACTIVITY TOPICS: • Crustal and active faults imaging by Passive Seismics (18 peer reviewed JCR papers): Local Earthquake Tomography; Induced Seismicity; Seismic sequences and background seismicity; dense passive seismic surveys.• Crustal imaging by Active Seismics (12 JCR papers): Traveltime and full-waveform Tomography; Processing crustal seismic profiles.• Exploration geophysics (8 JCR papers): Interpretation of seismic profiles and wells; Gravity data modelling.• Shallow imaging of active faults (11 JCR papers): Imaging of fault zones/basins by high-resolution seismics; Planning of seismic surveys.• Local Site Effects (6 JCR papers).PROJECTS: Coordinator of projects on active faults imaging, induced seismicity, seismotectonics. PUBBLICATIONS: 56 peer review papers, Citation Index 26; last update March 2024)Main papers published on high-impact journals: Geology, Scientific Reports, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Journal International, Tectonics. RECENT SELECTED PUBBLICATIONSImprota, L., et al. (2023). Joint inversion of geodetic and strong motion data for the 2012, Mw 6.1–6.0, May 20th and May 29th, northern Italy earthquakes: Source models and seismotectonic interpretation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 128, e2022JB026278. doi:10.1029/2022JB026278L. Improta, et al. (2019). Multi-segment rupture of the 2016 Amatrice-Visso-Norcia seismic sequence (central Italy) constrained by the first high-quality catalog of Early Aftershocks. Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43393-2.L. Improta, et al. (2017). Reservoir structure and wastewater-induced seismicity at the Val d’Agri oilfield (Italy) shown by three-dimensional Vp and Vp/Vs local earthquake tomography. J. Geophys. Res, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014725F. Villani, L. Improta, et al. (2017). Investigating the architecture of the Paganica Fault (2009 Mw 6.1 earthquake, central Italy) by integrating high-resolution multi-scale refraction tomography and detailed geological mapping, Geophys. J. Internat., doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw407. L. Improta, et al. (2015). A detailed analysis of wastewater-induced seismicity in the Val d’Agri oil field (Italy), Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1002/2015GL063369.L. Improta, et al. (2014). New insights into crustal structure, Cenozoic magmatism, CO2 degassing, and seismogenesis in the southern Apennines and Irpinia region from local earthquake tomography, J.Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2013JB010890.