Francesca Ardizzone, geologist, is a research scientist of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), where she carries out her research activity in the landslide hazards and risk assessment research unit at the Institute for Geo-Hydrological Hazards Assessment (IRPI), in Perugia. After taking a degree in Geology at the University of Perugia in 1988, she started her cooperation with the IRPI CNR in 1992. She worked in the framework of the AVI-GNDCI (Areas historically affected by hydrogeological disasters) national project from 1992 to 1994 and collected historical information about hydrogeological phenomena in Italy by reading newspapers, scientific literature and technical reports. From 1994 to 1996 she participated at the projects for the evaluation of the vulnerability areas of Appennines springs Bagnara, San Giovenale, and the San Cese in the town of Nocera Umbra (PG), in cooperation with the Perugia University and in 1997 she worked on the production of the Digital Terrain Model of the Umbria region for the CNR IRPI. In 1998 she obtained a temporary research position in the CNR IRPI and from 1998 to 2001 she worked in the framework of the CARG project for the implementation of the digital geo-database of the Geological Map of Italy at scale 1:50.000. She was and is still involved in several Italian regional project dedicated to the landslide mapping and evaluation of landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk. She developed several activities in the MORFEO project, a national project for the exploitation of Earth observation data and technology for improved landslide detection, monitoring and forecasting, funded by the Italian Space Agency. She is involved in a national project funded by the Italian National Department of Civil Defence aimed at fostering the national capabilities to forecast rainfall induced landslides, and the associated risk, in Italy, in particular her contribution is devoted to the production of landslide inventory maps and the implementation of the landslide geo-database. In the period 2010 – 2013, she participated to the DORIS project “downstream service for the detection, mapping, monitoring and forecasting of ground deformations”, European project FP 7. In the period 2010-2013 she was involved in the national project entitled VIGOR “Valutazione del potenziale Geotermico delle regioni della Convergenza” (Evaluation of the geothermal heating capacity in four Regions in the South of Italy), a national project funded by the “Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico Dipartimento per l’Energia” (Ministry of Economic Development, Energy Department). Since 2013 Francesca Ardizzone is working in the framework of LAMPRE ” LAndslide Modelling and tools for vulnerability assessment Preparedness and REcovery management “, an European project. She actively participated at the scientific and technical activities to support the Department of Civil Protection National in the emergency and post-emergence actions, for the earthquake occurred in L’Aquila on the April 2009 and for the meteorological Messina event occurred in the October 2009. Since November 2014 Francesca Ardizzone is involved in the Atlante Geotermico a national project ATLANTE Geotermico, project aimed to characterize and map the geothermic resources in South Italy (2011-2015). Francesca Ardizzone is the scientific responsible of HAMMER (RelationsHips between meteo-climAtic paraMeters and ground surface deforMation time sEries in mountain enviRonments), a Special Project developed in the framework of the NextData National Project funded by the MIUR (Italian Minister for the Education, Scientific Research and University) (2014-2015). From 2015 she partecipates at several national and regional italian projects.