Dr Benedetta Dini PhD, MSc, BSc, BA

Dr Benedetta Dini

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor in Environmental Sciences

Contact details

Email
b.dini@bham.ac.uk

Dr. Dini is an engineering geologist and geomorphologist with a strong interest in unravelling the physical processes underpinning landslides and the environmental factors influencing their distribution. Her work spans multiple disciplines, combining high-level remote sensing techniques such as InSAR, innovative wireless technologies, fieldwork, and spatial analyses to detect and investigate slope instabilities through the interpretation of surface deformation.

Her current primary focus revolves around the development of pioneering InSAR methods that draw from signal processing, ultimately enhancing landslide monitoring and precursory identification, both at regional and local scales. Dr. Dini's research is driven by a strong commitment to producing impactful results with real-world applications as well as enhancing resilience of vulnerable communities in the Global South.

In addition to her work in geology and geomorphology, Dr. Dini has a background in meteorology and a keen interest in coastal and periglacial environments.

Qualifications

PhD in Engineering Geology, ETH Zurich (2019)

MSc in Geophysical Hazards, UCL (2007)

BSc in Geology and Applied Geology, Università Milano-Bicocca (2006)

BA in Piano, Conservatorio di Musica “G. Verdi” Milano (2006)

Teaching

First year – Research methods and GIS

Second year – Geological natural hazards

Third year – Professional placement

Switzerland field course

Other activities

Obtained the Mental Health First Aider (MHFA) certificate in 2023

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Dini, B, Bennett, GL, Franco, AMA, Whitworth, MRZ, Cook, KL, Senn, A & Reynolds, JM 2021, '', Earth Surface Dynamics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 295鈥�315.

Daout, S, Dini, B, Haeberli, W, Doin, M-P & Parsons, B 2020, '', Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Dini, B, Aaron, J, Manconi, A, Pal茅zieux, LBD, Leith, K & Loew, S 2020, '', Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.

Dini, B, Manconi, A, Loew, S & Chophel, J 2020, '', Scientific Reports.

Dini, B, Daout, S, Manconi, A & Loew, S 2019, '', Remote Sensing of the Environment.

Daout, S, Sudhaus, H, Kausch, T, Steinberg, A & Dini, B 2019, '', Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

Dini, B, Manconi, A & Loew, S 2019, '', Engineering Geology.

Chapter

Lacroix, P, Dini, B & Cheaib, A 2022, . in Surface Displacement Measurement from Remote Sensing Images. Wiley, pp. 315-338.

Conference contribution

Dini, B, Lacroix, P & Doin, M-P 2022, . in EGU General Assembly 2022., EGU22-12583, European Geosciences Union, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23/05/22.

Dini, B, Doin, M-P, Lacroix, P & Gay, M 2022, . in Le programme du colloque GRETSI'22. GRETSI, GRETSI'22, Nancy, France, 6/09/22. <>

Dini, B & Bennett, GL 2021, . in EGU General Assembly 2021., EGU21-15605, European Geosciences Union, EGU General Assembly 2021, 19/04/21.