M.Sc. in Earth Sciences, 2015 - 2017
Thesis topic: Crystal-chemical characterization of colemanite, CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O (supervisor: G. Diego Gatta)
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO, MILAN, ITALY

B.Sc. in Geological Sciences, 2011 - 2014
Thesis topic: High-pressure behaviour of pentagonite, Ca(VO)Si₄O₁₀·4H₂O (supervisor: G. Diego Gatta)
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO, MILAN, ITALY

Employment

2023 - present: Research Fellow / Lecturer, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2021 - 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany

Publications

Magrini, F., and Sambridge, M. (2026). Transport-map proposals for efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Geophysical Journal International, 245(1), ggag002, doi:10.1093/gji/ggag002.
Zhang, P., Miller, M. S., Magrini, F., Pickle, R., Yuan, H., Murdie, R., Gessner, K., and de Gromard, R. Q. (2025). Insights into the Archean to Phanerozoic evolution of Southwest Australia from seismic ambient noise tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2025JB031274, doi:10.1029/2025JB031274.
Magrini, F., He, J., and Sambridge, M. (2024). BayesBay: a versatile Bayesian inversion framework written in Python. Seismological Research Letters, doi:10.1785/0220240275.
Lai, V. H., Miller, M. S., Jiang, C., Yang, Y., Magrini, F., Zhan, Z., and McQueen, H. (2024). Passive seismic imaging of urban environments using distributed acoustic sensing: a case study from Melbourne. The Seismic Record, 4(4), 308-317, doi:10.1785/0320240031.
Roisenberg, H. B., Magrini, F., Molinari, I., Boschi, L., and Cammarano, F. (2024). Rayleigh wave attenuation and phase velocity maps of the greater Alpine region from ambient noise. Scientific Reports, 14, 29164, doi:10.1038/s41598-024-80729-z.
Magrini, F., and Sambridge, M. (2023). Optimal transport and seismic rays. Mathematics, 11(22), 4686, doi:10.3390/math11224686.
Borleanu, F., Petrescu, L., Anca, P., Magrini, F., Grecu, B., Radulian, M., and De Siena, L. (2023). Seismic attenuation tomography of Eastern Europe from ambient seismic noise analysis. Geophysical Journal International, ggad408, doi:10.1093/gji/ggad408.
Magrini, F., Kästle, E., Pilia, S., Rawlinson, N., and De Siena, L. (2023). A new shear-velocity model of continental Australia based on multi-scale surface-wave tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2023JB026688, doi:10.1029/2023JB026688.
Nardoni, C., De Siena, L., Magrini, F., Cammarano, F., Maeda, T., and Mattei, E. (2023). Earthquake characteristics and structural properties of the Southern Tyrrhenian Basin from full seismic wave simulations. Surveys in Geophysics, 1-21, doi:10.1007/s10712-023-09769-w.
Agius, M., Magrini, F., Diaferia, G., Kästle, E. D., Cammarano, F., Faccenna, C., Funiciello, F., and van der Meijde, M. (2022). Shear-velocity structure and dynamics beneath the Sicily Channel and surrounding regions of the Central Mediterranean inferred from seismic surface waves. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(10), e2022GC010394, doi:10.1029/2022GC010394.
Magrini, F., Lauro, S., Kästle, E., and Boschi, L. (2022). Surface-wave tomography using SeisLib: a Python package for multi-scale seismic imaging. Geophysical Journal International, 231(2), 1011-1030, doi:10.1093/gji/ggac236.
Magrini, F., Diaferia, G., El-Sharkawy, A., Cammarano, F., van der Meijde, M., Meier, T., and Boschi, L. (2022). Surface-wave tomography of the Central-Western Mediterranean: new insights into the Liguro-Provençal and Tyrrhenian basins. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(3), e2021JB023267, doi:10.1029/2021JB023267.
Korostelev, F., Lu, Y., Magrini, F., Boschi, L., Leroy, S., and Vétel, W. (2022). Images of the East African Rift System by global adaptive-resolution surface-wave tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(6), e2021JB023570, doi:10.1029/2021JB023570.
Magrini, F., Boschi, L., Gualtieri, L., Lekić, V., and Cammarano, F. (2021). Rayleigh-wave attenuation across the conterminous United States in the microseism frequency band. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89497-6.
Nardoni, C., De Siena, L., Cammarano, F., Magrini, F., and Mattei, E. (2021). Modelling regional-scale attenuation across Italy and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 318, 106764, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106764.
Magrini, F., and Boschi, L. (2021). Surface-wave attenuation from seismic ambient noise: numerical validation and application. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(1), e2020JB019865, doi:10.1029/2020JB019865.
Magrini, F., Jozinović, D., Cammarano, F., Michelini, A., and Boschi, L. (2020). Local earthquakes detection: a benchmark dataset of 3-component seismograms built on a global scale. Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, 1, 1-10, doi:10.1016/j.aiig.2020.04.001.
Magrini, F., Diaferia, G., Boschi, L., and Cammarano, F. (2020). Arrival-angle effects on two-receiver measurements of phase velocity. Geophysical Journal International, 220(3), 1838-1844, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz560.
Magrini, F., Diaferia, G., Fadel, I., Cammarano, F., van der Meijde, M., and Boschi, L. (2020). 3-D shear wave velocity model of the lithosphere below the Sardinia-Corsica continental block based on Rayleigh-wave phase velocities. Geophysical Journal International, 220(3), 2119-2130, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz555.
Boschi, L., Magrini, F., Cammarano, F., and van der Meijde, M. (2020). Erratum: On seismic ambient noise cross-correlation and surface-wave attenuation. Geophysical Journal International, 222(2), 1090-1092, doi:10.1093/gji/ggaa225.
Boschi, L., Magrini, F., Cammarano, F., and van der Meijde, M. (2019). On seismic ambient noise cross-correlation and surface-wave attenuation. Geophysical Journal International, 219(3), 1568-1589, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz379.
Lotti, P., Gatta, G. D., Demitri, N., Guastella, G., Rizzato, S., Ortenzi, M. A., Magrini, F., Comboni, D., Guastoni, A., and Fernandez-Diaz, M. T. (2018). Crystal chemistry and temperature behavior of the natural hydrous borate colemanite, a mineral commodity of boron. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 45(5), 405-422, doi:10.1007/s00269-017-0929-7.

Teaching and supervision

Advanced Data Analysis (BSc and Honours), The Australian National University, 2024 and 2025
Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python (PhD), Università degli Studi Roma Tre (2021, 2022) and Università degli Studi di Milano (2022)
Geophysical Inverse Problems and Statistics (MSc), Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 2021
Supervision of BSc and MSc students: J. Barr-Baxter (MSc 2022, University of Aberdeen), R. Gautam (MSc 2022, JGU Mainz), S. M. Neugebauer (BSc 2021, JGU Mainz), F. di Michele (MSc 2019, Roma Tre)

Current research

Bayesian inference
Bayesian optimal experimental design
Deep learning
Optimal transport

Research interests

Observational, theoretical, and computational geophysics; development of advanced subsurface imaging techniques
Mathematical methods in the Earth sciences: inverse theory, optimization, Monte Carlo methods, optimal transport theory
Surface-wave tomography, seismic ambient noise, seismic attenuation
Machine learning and numerical modelling

Software

SeisLib: Python package for multi-scale seismic imaging at local, regional, and global scale
BayesBay: a versatile, generalized Bayesian inversion framework in Python
ot-rays: seismic ray tracing based on optimal transport theory

Technical skills

Applied mathematics and computational statistics: inverse theory, optimization, optimal transport, Bayesian inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Bayesian optimal experimental design
Machine learning, including deep learning
Subsurface imaging: surface-wave tomography (velocity and attenuation)
Programming: Python, software development

Other skills and interests

Languages: Italian (native), English (fluent)
Hobbies: Chess, pure mathematics, piano playing, classical music, tennis

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