Background
Domenico was born on May 29, 1945 in Bari, Italy. Son of Michele Patella and Rosa Lidia Chimienti.
Domenico was born on May 29, 1945 in Bari, Italy. Son of Michele Patella and Rosa Lidia Chimienti.
Degree in Physics, State University Bari, 1968.
Assistant Professor at the University of Bari, Italy, 1969-1980. Full Professor at the University Federico II, Naples, Italy, 1980-2015. Adjunct Professor at the Telematic University "Universitas Mercatorum", Rome, Italy, 2018-present. Second lieutenant Air Force, 1969-1970, Italy.
Director of the Observatory for Geophysics and Cosmic Physics at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Bari, 1978-1980.
Professor of Physics of the Earth at the University La Sapienza of Rome, 1993-1995.
Director of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, 1980 -1981, and of the Department of Geophysics and Volcanology, 1986-1988, at the University Federico II of Naples.
Head of the Applied Geophysics Research Unit of Naples within the Italian Group of Solid Earth Geophysics, 1983-1996.
Dean of the PhD School in Geophysics and Volcanology at the University Federico II of Naples, 1994-1996.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Italian Group of Solid Earth Geophysics at the Italian National Research Council, Rome, 1983-1996.
Member of the Earth Sciences National Committee at the Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research, Rome, 1984-1996.
Member of the Geophysical National Council at the Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research, Rome, 1988-1993 and 1996 -2000.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage, National Research Council, Rome, 1992-1995.
Director of the Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage, National Research Council, Rome, 1995-1998.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Institute for Geothermal Research, National Research Council, Pisa, 1992-1996.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Advanced Methodologies of Ambient Analysis, National Research Council, Potenza, 1994-2001.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Special Project CROP (Deep Crust) sponsored by the National Research Council, the Italian Electricity Board and the Italian Oil Agency, 1990-1994.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the restitution of the Axoum Obelisk in Rome to the Ethiopian Government.
Correspondent from Italy at the Department of Scientific Advances at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP, New York, USA), the Organización Latino-Americana de Energia (OLADE, Quito, Ecuador).
Leader of many scientific research programs funded by the EU, CNR, Italian Ministry of University, Italian State Oil Agency, Campania Region, Italian State Railway Board, Italian Civil Protection State Department, the Vesuvian Observatory, etc.
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Applied Geophysics, Geothermics, Geophysics, Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, Geophysical Prospecting, Acta Vulcanologica and Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage.
Founder and organizer of the National Workshop of Geo-Electro-Magnetism and co-editor of the Proceedings, printed on Annals of Geophysics, edited by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
Founder and organizer of the International Workshop Magnetic, Electric and Electromagnetic Methods in Seismology and Volcanology and Editor of the Proceedings, printed on Annals of Geophysics, edited by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
Founder and organizer of the International Workshop Electric, Magnetic and Electromagnetic Methods Applied to Cultural Heritage.
Author of over 200 publications.
Married Annamaria Nicola Annicchiarico, June 14, 1975. Children: Manuela Leda, Sergio Maria.
