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This University is characterised by an intellectual environment where independent research and teaching can be pursued. Our University celebrated now its 20th Anniversary; during these years the University's multidisciplinary campus has become a focal point for 36,000 students and 1550 researchers and lectures. It currently hosts 8 Faculties (Economics, Education, Law, “Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences”, Medicine, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics) and 19 departments. It offers 36 Bachelor's degrees, 30 Master's degrees, 30 Doctorates, 19 Professional Masters, and 34 Specialisation Courses. Moreover, there are 4 Research Centers, 27 Research Pools, and it is home to the 'Research Area Number 3' of the CNR (government owned National Research Council), and the Pirelli Lab with its 150 researchers and 13,000 square metres of laboratory space.
The project involves two departments: The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DISAT), and the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo). DISAT is focused on a multidisciplinary approach to Earth Sciences with a special emphasis on natural hazard assessment and mitigation, both on land and offshore. Among the topics and related lines of research developed within DISAT, the most relevant connected with the proposed project is represented by a huge amount of data already collected on active seismic zones, comprising onshore areas of Greece, as well as on volcanoes of several regions of the world. We are also expert on the development and use of special software dedicated to the “navigation” of Virtual Reality geological environments obtained by processing drone images. Finally, we have also a group of marine geologists who can collaborate with the oceanographic community of the project. The Department has at disposal 29 laboratories of all Earth science disciplines.
DISCo, was founded on January 1, 1999 with a teaching staff and technical administration staff who transferred from the Computer Science department of the Università degli Studi di Milano to the new University. Since then, the department has grown with a research and teaching staff of more than thirty professors and more than forty doctoral students and researchers. The members of the administrative staff and “Research office” of UNIMIB and DISCo have a long experience in managing multi-partners projects at national and international levels (members of the department are currently principal investigators of ERC and Horizon 2020 projects).
Know more about as at https://www.disat.unimib.it/en.
Main role in the project
The DISAT participates with the role of scientific community, being represented by a group of researchers skilled especially on geohazards. They will put at disposal of the project the relevant huge amount of data related to recent and active faults, and active volcanoes, which can be used in synergy with the atmospheric group. The data comprises seismological information and field geological structural characteristics of faults located in areas prone to seismic hazard in Greece and elsewhere, and data on key-examples of active volcanoes.
The DISCo team of UNIMIB will contribute to the effort of the Astro-Planet group by supporting the identification, selection and application of relevant recent approaches and techniques to the semantic annotation and support to the retrieval of digital contents and to the analysis of images for the detection of relevant entities by means of state of the art deep learning tools.