Vienna – The director of the Volcanic Structure of the Italian National Geophysical and Vulcanology Institute (INGV), Augusto Neri, received the 2017 Sergey Soloviev Medal at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna today. The prestigious recognition Is assigned for outstanding scientific contributions to fundamental research that improves knowledge of natural hazards and contributes to their mitigation. In the past, two other Italian scientists received the Sergey Soloviev Medal: Franco Barberi (1997) and Franco Siccardi (2002). Augusto Neri concentrated his research activity on the development and application of physical-mathematical models of volcanic processes, with particular attention to the dynamics of gas-to-gas multi-phase flows generated by explosive eruptions. (9colonne)
