Walter Imperatori

Alumni

(Postdoctoral Fellow until 2013) continued to ETH Zurich

Alumni

Research Interests

Wave propagation in complex media (analyzing seismic wave propagation in heterogeneous three-dimensional media characterized by random velocity perturbations, including complex faulting and dynamic rupture, to simulate realistically ground motions in the near-field region), Hybrid broadband techniques (developing computationally inexpensive deterministic-stochastic methodologies to calculate reliable synthetic seismograms, representing a fundamental tool in ground shaking estimation and earthquake scenario works), High-performance computing in seismology (developing and testing numerical codes, to be applied in different forward and inverse seismological problems, characterized by high-portability and scalability in high-end parallel computation resources – e.g. IBM BlueGene)

Selected Publications

  • Imperatori, W., Mai, P.M. (2013), Broadband Near-Field Ground Motion Simulations in 3D Scattering Media, Geophys. J. Int. 192, 725-744.
  • Imperatori, W., Mai, P.M. (2012), Sensitivity of Broadband Ground-Motion Simulations to Earthquake Source and Earth Structure Variations: an Application to the Messina Straits (Italy), Geophys. J. Int. 188(3), 1103-1116. 
  • Somerville, P.G., Callaghan, S., Maechling, P., Graves, R.W., Collins, N., Olsen, K.B., Imperatori, W., Jones, M., Archuleta, R., Schmedes, J., and Jordan, T.H. (2011), The SCEC Broadband Ground Motion Simulation Platform, Seismol. Res. Lett. 82(2), 275, 10.1785/gssrl.82.2.273.
  • Mai, P.M., Imperatori, W., Olsen, K.B. (2010), Hybrid Broadband Ground-Motion Simulations: Combining Long-Period Deterministic Synthetics with High-Frequency Multiple S-to-S Backscattering, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 100(5A), 2124-2142.
  • Imperatori, W., Aochi, H., Suhadolc, P., Douglas, J., Ducellier, A., Costa, G. (2010), 2D versus 1D Ground Motion Modeling for the Friuli Region, North-Eastern Italy, BGTA 51(1), 43-56.

Education

  • 2012 Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2007 Master, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Professional Profile

  • 2012 - 2013: Post-doctoral fellow, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
  • 2008 - 2012: Research assistant, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2007 - 2007: Research scholarship, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy