MEET the NHEAT Team

Chiara Boschi
NHEAT Principal Investigator

Geochemist, Senior Researcher at IGG-CNR. Her main scientific interests are water-rock interaction processes, serpentinization, CO2 mineral sequestration, and white hydrogen.

Eugenio Carminati
LaSapienza University Unit Coordinator

Structural geologist, Full Professor at Sapienza University. His main research interests are global geodynamic processes, tectonics and active deformation in the Mediterranean area and the Middle East, fluid interactions along faults and in hydrothermal systems. 

Antonio Caracausi
INGV Unit Coordinator

Geochemist, Senior Researcher at INGV, working with stable isotopes and noble gases to characterize magmatic, hydrothermal and geothermal systems, natural resources, mantle heterogeneity, earth degassing, and seismic processes. 

Matteo Lelli
CNR Team Member

Researcher at the IGG-CNR, expert in fluid geochemistry and quantitative studies for geothermal exploration and volcanic hazards, conceptual modeling, diffuse degassing, white hydrogen.

Andrea Billi
CNR Team Member

Structural geologist, Research Director at IGAG-CNR. His main research interests focus on fault-fluid interactions during the seismic cycle.

Abimbola Ogunyele
CNR Team Member

Post-doc NHEAT at IGG-CNR, Geochemist and petrologist with interests in isotope and trace elements geochemistry, serpentinization and formation of natural hydrogen.

Luca Smeraglia
CNR Team Member

Senior Researcher at IGAG-CNR. Structural geologist specialized in fault-fluid interaction processes, fault mechanical processes and fault-controlled fluid flow in subsurface reservoirs for CO2 sequestration, geothermal fluids, groundwater, and hydrocarbons

Luca Aldega
La Sapienza University Team Member

Full professor of Geology at Sapienza University, his main scientific interests are burial and exhumation of fold-and-thrust belts, thermal evolution of sedimentary basisns, fluid-rock interaction processes.

Giulia Schirripa Spagnolo
La Sapienza University Team Member

NHEAT Postdoctoral Researcher at Sapienza University. Structural geologist specializing in fault-fluid interactions (CO₂, hydrocarbons, natural hydrogen, etc.), investigated through isotopic geochemistry and fluid inclusion analysis.

Alessandra Correale
INGV Team

Geochemist and Petrologist, Researcher at INGV. Her main scientific interests are fluids in rock, isotope and trace elements geochemistry of the rock, mantle rocks and related serpentinization

Serena Botteghi
CNR Project Manager

Project manager at IGG-CNR of many applied research projects, including public funded projects on the research infrastructures, as PNRR IR Project ITINERIS and MEET and EU project in several fields of environmental applied research, as FireUrisk. 

MEET the NHEAT COLLABORATORs

Andrea Rielli

Researcher at IGG-CNR. Petrology, geochemistry and isotope geochemistry of ultramafic systems and natural carbonation systems. 

Ilaria Baneschi

Senior Technologist at IGG-CNR. Fluid geochemist specializing in stable isotope, low-temperature water-rock interactions, CO2 sequestration, and metal mobilization. 

Barbara Marchesini

Postdoctoral Researcher at Sapienza University. Structural Geologist specialized in the interaction between tectonics, fluids and alteration.  

Giovanni Ruggieri

Senior Researcher at IGG-CNR, specialized in fluid inclusion and fluid-rock interaction experiments applied to geothermal and hydrothermal systems, ore deposit studies and CO2 mineralogical sequestration.  

Emanuele Gaudenzi

PhD Student at Sapienza University, in collaboration with SNAM S.p.A.. Structural geologist focused on the study of natural hydrogen genesis in serpentinites through multidisciplinary approach. 

“Unlocking Earth’s Hydrogen for a Greener Tomorrow”