Bio

Angela Stallone is a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Bologna, Italy.
Her research focuses on physics-informed probabilistic seismic modelling, with emphasis on uncertainty quantification and its implications for seismic hazard assessment.
Angela graduated in 2012 with the M.Sc. degree in Applied Geophysics from the IDEA League Joint Master's program, a joint program run by TU Delft, ETH Zurich and RWTH Aachen. She concluded her studies with a Master thesis on the simulation of propagation of seismic waves in a fractured medium with the 2D finite-difference method at TU Delft. From July 2011 till August 2011 she worked as a geoscientist intern at Statoil in Stavanger, Norway, where she gained experience in Oil & Gas reservoir characterization.
After graduating, she worked as a geophysicist at CGG in Den Haag, The Netherlands, where she engaged as a team member dedicated to software testing and enhancement, specifically focusing on the CGG stochastic inversion tool. In June 2015 she moved back to Italy to start a new career as a research scientist.
She received her PhD in Geophysics from the University of Roma TRE (in collaboration with INGV) in November 2018. She defended her dissertation on an unbiased and statistically rigorous analysis of earthquake occurrence, with implications for earthquake forecasting and seismic hazard assessment.
Between November 2018 and March 2022, she served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at INGV, Rome. During this period, she strengthened her skills in Statistical Seismology and expanded her interests to Computational Seismology and High Performance Computing (HPC), with a focus on Full-Waveform Inversion and uncertainty quantification.

Her main research interests include:

• Computational seismology and HPC
• Uncertainty quantification in ground motion modelling
• Planetary seismology (with focus on the Moon)
• Development of innovative frameworks for uncertainty-aware seismic modelling
• Probabilistic seismic hazard
• Quantum Computing (Annealing)

Positions

• Apr 2022 - ongoing: Researcher at INGV, Bologna, Italy
• Nov 2018 - Mar 2022: Postdoc researcher at INGV, Rome, Italy
• Nov 2012 - May 2015: Geophysicist at CGG, Den Haag, The Netherlands
• July 2011 - Aug 2011: Intern at Statoil, Stavanger, Norway

Education

• Nov 2015 - Nov 2018: PhD student at University of Roma TRE/INGV, Rome, Italy
  Thesis title: “Statistical analysis of earthquake occurrences and implications for earthquake forecasting and seismic hazard assessment”
• Aug 2010 - Aug 2012: MSc, Applied Geophysics (IDEA League Joint Degree), Delft (The Netherlands)/Aachen (Germany)/Zurich (Switzerland)
  Thesis title: "Seismic signatures of 2D fracture networks"
• Sep 2007 - Jul 2010: BSc, Geology (University of Bari, Italy)

Software

• ProbShakeRank, Author.
  A workflow for dynamic Ground Motion Model (GMM) ranking that accounts for earthquake source uncertainty. Evaluates GMMs using LLH, PGS, multivariate LLH, AIC, and BIC metrics. Enables quasi-real-time ranking updates as source information evolves. Built on ProbShakemap.
  GitHub: https://github.com/INGV/ProbShakeRank
  
• ProbShakemap, Author.
  Python toolbox propagating earthquake source uncertainty to ground motion prediction for urgent computing applications.
  GitHub: https://github.com/INGV/ProbShakemap
  Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/10654186
• RESTORE (REal catalogs STOchastic REplenishment), Author.
  Python toolbox implementing a stochastic gap-filling method to tackle the problem of Short-Term Aftershock Incompleteness (STAI).
  GitHub: https://github.com/INGV/RESTORE
  Zenodo: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3952182

Projects

AWARDED PROJECTS
• [2025-] PHAETON: Probabilistic HazArd assEssmenT Of Natural phenomena. Awarded by National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (CNHPC).
• [2025-] QUAKE: QUantum Annealing for rupturE-paths. Awarded under CINECA Iscra Class C Projects – Call 2025.
• [2025-] SAMURAI: ScenArio-based MaximUm hazaRd mAp for Italy. Awarded by INGV Bando di Ricerca Libera 2024.
• [2022-2023] BRIDGE: Boosting and impRovIng Deterministic Ground motion Estimation. Awarded: 8,000 GPUh on Marconi100 CINECA under Iscra Class C Projects – Call 2022.
PARTICIPATION TO SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS
• [2024-] CN HPC-National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing, funded by NextGenerationEU - PNRR Missione 4
• [2024-] SPIN: Studio della Potenziale INterazione tra attività offshore e pericolosità naturali, funded by DGIS-INGV
• [2023-] NEMESIS: NEar real-tiME results of Physical and StatIstical Seismology for earthquakes observations, modeling and forecasting, funded by INGV (Pianeta Dinamico)
• [2022-] LGWA: Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna collaboration
• [2022-] ChEESE2: Centre of Excellence for Exascale in Solid Earth (part 2), funded by EU-H2020
• [2018-2024] eFlows4HPC: Enabling dynamic and Intelligent workflows in the future EuroHPC ecosystem, funded by EU-EuroHPC
• [2018-2022] ChEESE: Centre of Excellence for Exascale in Solid Earth, funded by EU-H2020

Publications

• Stallone, A. & Spassiani, I. (2026). Correcting exponentiality test for binned earthquake magnitudes. Seismica, 5(1). doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v5i1.2257.
• Stallone, A. (2025). Comparison of Stochastic and Enhanced Earthquake Detection Techniques in Mitigating Time‐Varying Incompleteness. Seismological Research Letters. doi.org/10.1785/0220240247.
• Stallone, A., Krischer, L., Magnoni, F., Casarotti, E., Baccheschi, P., & Fichtner, A. (2025). Radially anisotropic 3D velocity model of the Central Apennines lithosphere: The CI23 model. Geophysical Research Letters. doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111333.
• Ajith, P., Seoane, P. A., Sedda, M. A., Arcodia, R., Badaracco, F., Belgacem, E., ... & Zuccarello, L. (2025). The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna: Mission Studies and Science Case. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2025(01), 108. doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/01/108.
• Stallone, A., Selva, J., Cordrie, L., Faenza, L., Michelini, A., & Lauciani, V. (2025). ProbShakemap: A Python toolbox propagating source uncertainty to ground motion prediction for urgent computing applications. Computers & Geosciences, 195, 105748. doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2024.105748.
• Folch, A., Abril, C., Afanasiev, M., Amati, G., Bader, M., Badia, R. M., ... & Wössner, U. (2023). The EU Center of Excellence for Exascale in Solid Earth (ChEESE): Implementation, results, and roadmap for the second phase. Future Generation Computer Systems, 146, 47-61. doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2023.04.006
• Spassiani, I., Taroni, M., Stallone, A., & Artale Harris, P. (2023). Physical and statistical approaches to earthquake modeling and forecasting. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 9, 1268240. doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1268240
• Meletti, C., Marzocchi, W., D'amico, V., Lanzano, G., Luzi, L., Martinelli, F., ... & Seno, S. (2021). The new Italian seismic hazard model (MPS19). Annals of Geophysics, 64(1). doi.org/10.4401/ag-8579
• Stallone, A., & Falcone, G. (2021). Missing earthquake data reconstruction in the space‐time‐magnitude domain. Earth and Space Science, 8(8), e2020EA001481. doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001481
• Stallone, A., Cicone, A., & Materassi, M. (2020). New insights and best practices for the successful use of Empirical Mode Decomposition, Iterative Filtering and derived algorithms. Scientific reports, 10(1), 15161. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72193-2
• Marzocchi, W., Spassiani, I., Stallone, A., & Taroni, M. (2020). How to be fooled searching for significant variations of the b-value. Geophysical Journal International, 220(3), 1845-1856. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz541
• Stallone, A., & Marzocchi, W. (2019). Features of seismic sequences are similar in different crustal tectonic regions. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109(5), 1594-1604. doi.org/10.1785/0120180175
• Stallone, A., & Marzocchi, W. (2019). Empirical evaluation of the magnitude-independence assumption. Geophysical Journal International, 216(2), 820-839. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy459
• [Conference paper] Tehrani, A. M., Stallone, A., Bornard, R., & Boudon, S. (2016, May). Realistic Uncertainty Quantification in Geostatistical Seismic Reservoir Characterization. In 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2016 (Vol. 2016, No. 1, pp. 1-5). European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers. doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201600965

Upcoming

• Dukalski, M., Stallone, A., Diaferia, G. Using Quantum Annealing for identifying plausible earthquake rupture paths in fault networks. (Submitted to SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC))
• Stallone, A., Lanzano, G., Sgobba, S., Selva, J. Urgent GMMs ranking with propagated source uncertainty. (In preparation)
• Taroni, M., Spassiani, I., Stallone, A., González, Á., Artale Harris, P. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Power-Law Exponent for Incomplete Data. (Submitted to Mathematical Geosciences)
• Patat, F., Piranomonte, S., Benetti, S., Bonforte, A., Della Ceca, R., Di Rico, G., ... & LGWA Collaboration. (2025). Time-Domain Multi-Messenger Astronomy in the 2040s: EM Follow-up of LGWA Sources. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16264 . (Submitted to ESO call for White Papers)
• Lorito, S., Cirella, A., Piatanesi, A., Romano, F., Atzori, S., Svigkas, N., Avallone, A., Stallone, A., Magnoni, F., Casarotti, E., Brizuela, B., Volpe, M., Tonini, R., Cugliari, L., Amato, A., Baglione, E., Bayraktar, B., Okuwaki, R., Yagi, Y., Metz, M., Dahm, T., Babeyko, A., Ganas, A., Taymaz, T., & Briole, P. The 30 October 2020 Mw 7.0 Samos-Izmir earthquake and tsunami: multi-stage source characterization from teleseismic, strong motion, HR and static GPS, InSAR, and tsunami data. (In preparation)

Collaborations

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• LGWA (Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna) WG2 Coordinator [2025-2026] and Steering Committee member [2025-ongoing].
• Scientific Organizing Committee Member of the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (LGWA) annual meeting - University of Camerino, September 15–19, 2025.
• Visiting researcher at ETH Zurich [23/10/2021 - 21/11/2021]: SALVUS Software training, under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Fichtner.
• Organizing Committee Member: NoSAG21 Summer School and Conference (“Mathematics for Nonstationary Signals and applications in Geophysics and other fields”) - Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, July 19-24, 2021.
• Reviewer for: Nature Communications Earth & Environment, Scientific Reports, Geophysical Journal International, Seismological Research Letters, JGR - Solid Earth, Geophysical Journal International, Annals of Geophysics.

OUTREACH

• Interview for COELUM for the activity within LGWA (Link).
• Shakemovies on Youtube (1980 Mw 6.9 Irpinia earthquake and 2020 Mw 6.4 Croatia earthquake).
• Stallone, A., Sandri L., Lorito S., Volpe M., Casarotti E., Ongaro T. E. (2021). ChEESE: L’ Europa si prepara ad entrare nell’era exascale. [English version ]
• Diaferia, G., & Stallone, A. (2019). Earthquake rumbles the gates of Rome. , Temblor.
• Stallone, A., & Diaferia, G. (2018). Mt. Etna eruption likely reactivated Fiandaca Fault. , Temblor.
• Stallone, A., & Diaferia, G. (2018). Large earthquakes could be linked to a newly-imaged fault. , Temblor.

SCHOLARSHIPS & RECOGNITION
• Nature Communications Earth & Environment Outstanding Reviewer nature.com/commsenv/referees/outstanding-referees
• Contributi premiali per ricercatori e assegnisti di ricerca, Regione Lazio (PR FSE+ 2021-2027)
• Top 100 Scientific Reports Earth Science papers in 2020 nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72193-2
• 2010-2012: Scholarship for IDEA LEAGUE MSc “Applied Geophysics” (granted by Statoil)
• 2010-2011: Grant for IDEA LEAGUE MSc “Applied Geophysics” (granted by ENEL)