Jacopo Selva is Associate Professor at the University of Naples "Federico II", Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resources Sciences, where he is titular of the master courses "Volcanic Hazard", "Seismology and Seismic Hazard", and "Statistics in Volcanology". He was researcher at INGV Bologna (2005-2022), where he was national responsible for the research line "Eruption Dynamics and Scenarios" (2014-2017) and member of the steering committee of the tsunami warning centre (2018-2022). He was guest researcher at the University of Ulster (2003) and at the University Aristoteleio of Thessaloniki (2010-2013), and contract professor at the University of Perugia (2020) and the University of Bologna (2021-2023). For his scientific achievements was awarded the EGU Plinius Medal in 2024. Antonio Costa is Senior Researcher at INGV Bologna, where he was also Director (2019-2022). He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna. He got the Master degree at the University of Pisa (1998) and the PhD at the University of Bologna (2004). He was Researcher at University of Bristol (2005- 2006), where he was also honorary researcher (2007-2010), while working at the INGV Naples.

From 2011 to 2012 he worked at University of Reading, UK. He was a research visitor at the University of Tokyo (2015) and Munich University (2019). For his scientific achievements was awarded the IAVCEI Wager Medalist in 2013 and from 2021 is Member of Academia Europaea.